Switzerland 2026

Switzerland 2026 , 2/20 – 3/2

Do we have a story for you……and it starts off right at the airport on departure day.

OKC Airport everyone arrives on time ready for departure. All is going well until we get a notification that our flight has been delayed from OKC to DFW by about 45 minutes. We all have experienced delays and this one was no different. We still had 45 minutes in DFW to make our next connection in a different terminal….no worry. Notwithstanding I had a quick phone call and a chit chat with the gate agent to make sure our group of 34 people were on her radar. Next we had another delay announcement that shrunk our connection to 10 minutes. At this point I was mildly concerned and had another chat with the gate agent and a supervisor that had shown up. The supervisor was there to check on us and make sure things were moving along. I felt like we were in good hands. HOWEVER, there was another delay announcement that put us 15 minutes PAST our connection in DFW…..but at least the our plane was in the air and headed our way. The supervisor came over to talk and told us that she needed to get us in the air and she would get us taken care of in DFW. We were told to board the plane when our group was announced to make sure all our carry on luggage made it. Low and behold our plane arrives and we are still looking at connection that we will miss by 15 minutes. “OKC Ski Club will you please board the plane first”. Yep, all 32 of us get on BEFORE first class, before the elite members, and before David Spade. The plane loads as quick as possible and we are in the air still looking at a connection that is 15 minutes late. 20 minutes into the flight we start getting notifications of a gate change on our phones. Yep, the supervisor moved our arrival gate RIGHT NEXT to our connecting flight. No terminal change. Two minutes later another notification. The connecting flight was delayed for takeoff. They wanted to make sure we were going to make our connection……all 32 of us. We arrive in DFW, quickly deplane, and board at the next gate. Our luggage was moved from one plane to another directly. As we start to board our connecting flight the head flight attendant welcomed us on board over the speaker to applause on the plane.

It helps to have the right connections and know what procedures to follow. Your ski club has the pull to make some things happen. The connecting flight was literally held an extra 30 minutes to make sure we made it. Good things do happen.

Needless to say the rest of the flights were not as exciting….

We arrived in Zurich, passed through passport control, grabbed luggage, and boarded the busses. During our drive it started to snow….and not just “hey cool its snowing”….but large meatball sized flakes. It was dumping. Chain notices were out and the busses had to stop to put on tire chains. That much snow.

Facebook posts from each day are below and really summarize what shenanigans we got into on the trip. Read them from bottom up and re-live, or experience fresh, the phenomenal trip that over 60 people had. Your ski club does it right. We have fun and go places that are memorable. Along the way we sometimes have quite the travel stories to tell.

Thank you everyone for a wonderful time. It was great taking you all to a new place in the world.
Ryan