She covers influencers and viral, trending content across society and culture verticals and has been working at PEOPLE since July After traveling down to Brazil to attend a wedding, Vienna Skye and her mom found themselves with unexpected extra time in South America. They didn't spend their extended stay exploring or sightseeing, but after four days of flight delays, the mother-daughter duo did become thoroughly acquainted with the Rio de Janeiro airport.
Skye, 25, detailed her experience "living at the airport" in an Instagram Reel that reached 3. She showed footage of her and her mother, Donna, on their fourth day passing time in the terminal as they waited for United Airlines to finally clear their flight back to Newark, New Jersey.
She and Donna didn't land in the U. As Skye explained in her viral video, their prolonged journey home was made all the more frustrating by a series of resulting inconveniences. She and other travelers boarded and deplaned the same aircraft multiple times over the course of their multi-day delay, and they had to actually exit the airport each time they were ushered off the aircraft, meaning Skye had to retrieve her checked luggage three different times.
She and her mom also went through Brazilian customs six times when, normally, they would've only passed through twice β once upon entry and once again when leaving the country.
Skye tells PEOPLE that United put them up in a hotel on their first extra night in Rio since their flight was originally canceled and rescheduled for the next morning. During the following few days, however, it became difficult to find times and places to rest because United continuously delayed the flight, meaning the mom and daughter had to standby and wait for updates in the airport. Skye also claims that the plane crew was less than sympathetic to their passengers' plight, but she understands they were stuck under the same trying circumstances.
