― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 14 June 2004 10:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 14 June 2004 11:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 14 June 2004 11:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 14 June 2004 11:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 14 June 2004 11:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 14 June 2004 11:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 14 June 2004 11:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 14 June 2004 11:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 14 June 2004 11:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 14 June 2004 11:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 14 June 2004 11:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― penelope_111, Monday, 14 June 2004 11:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 14 June 2004 11:47 (nineteen years ago) link
DB should have arrived in NYC by now.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 June 2004 11:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 14 June 2004 11:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 June 2004 11:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 14 June 2004 11:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 14 June 2004 12:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 14 June 2004 12:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Monday, 14 June 2004 12:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 14 June 2004 13:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 11:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 17:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 23 July 2004 04:45 (nineteen years ago) link
At least the wireless is free.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 23 July 2004 04:47 (nineteen years ago) link
Have a good time in NYC, Elvis.
― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 23 July 2004 04:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 23 July 2004 05:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 23 July 2004 05:10 (nineteen years ago) link
Going to NYC to see JBR, take more of my stuff out in advance of the October move, and to go see Devo & the Yeah Yeah Yeahs(as mentioned on this thread)
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 23 July 2004 05:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 23 July 2004 05:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 23 July 2004 05:26 (nineteen years ago) link
Anyway, getting on the plane now
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 23 July 2004 05:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 23 July 2004 05:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nick Apollo Forte (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 23 July 2004 09:42 (nineteen years ago) link
(Wish I'd actually thought to look for this thread on Thursday, when I was actually in an airport.
― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Saturday, 24 July 2004 15:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 3 February 2005 12:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 3 February 2005 12:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 08:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:18 (eighteen years ago) link
what magazine(s) should i get? what's out now? is there a new vanity fair?
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:19 (eighteen years ago) link
xp the new Vanity Fair is the one with Jennifer Anniston on it.
― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:20 (eighteen years ago) link
xp get Wired. Wired's the quintessential airport magazine.
― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:23 (eighteen years ago) link
xp yes
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― and I can walk out into the world, singing with my people (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:34 (eighteen years ago) link
R.U. Sirius is podcasting now
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 25 August 2005 23:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Wiggy (Wiggy), Thursday, 25 August 2005 23:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― donut gon' nut (donut), Thursday, 25 August 2005 23:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 August 2005 23:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 August 2005 23:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Thursday, 25 August 2005 23:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 August 2005 23:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 26 August 2005 00:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 26 August 2005 00:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 26 August 2005 00:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 26 August 2005 00:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 26 August 2005 00:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 26 August 2005 00:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 26 August 2005 00:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 26 August 2005 01:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Kim (Kim), Friday, 26 August 2005 01:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 26 August 2005 01:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Wiggy (Wiggy), Friday, 26 August 2005 01:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― strng hlkngtn, Friday, 26 August 2005 01:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Wiggy (Wiggy), Friday, 26 August 2005 01:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― strng hlkngtn, Friday, 26 August 2005 01:40 (eighteen years ago) link
hey strongstein whaddya expect when you click on a thread called "i'm in an airport"?
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 26 August 2005 01:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 26 August 2005 01:41 (eighteen years ago) link
xp: i take it back!
― strng hlkngtn, Friday, 26 August 2005 01:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Kim (Kim), Friday, 26 August 2005 01:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 26 August 2005 02:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 21:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 21:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 1 September 2005 12:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 1 September 2005 12:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 1 September 2005 12:04 (eighteen years ago) link
i watched "fever pitch" on the plane last night
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 1 September 2005 12:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 1 September 2005 12:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 1 September 2005 12:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 1 September 2005 12:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx and the choco-pop babies (baaderonixx), Thursday, 1 September 2005 12:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 1 September 2005 12:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 1 September 2005 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link
I'll be in an airport tomorrow!
― The last honest gentleman (nordicskilla), Thursday, 1 September 2005 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 1 September 2005 15:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― you-know-who (Mark P), Thursday, 1 September 2005 15:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― The last honest gentleman (nordicskilla), Thursday, 1 September 2005 16:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 1 September 2005 16:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 1 September 2005 16:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― The last honest gentleman (nordicskilla), Thursday, 1 September 2005 16:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 1 September 2005 16:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― I don't doubt it, my friend, I don't doubt it (nordicskilla), Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:47 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm not in an airport.
― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 1 September 2005 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link
ihttp://www.eonline.com/Features/Features/Schwarzenegger/Links/Images/links.main.jpg
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 19:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― I don't doubt it, my friend, I don't doubt it (nordicskilla), Thursday, 1 September 2005 20:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 20:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 1 September 2005 20:12 (eighteen years ago) link
mark: i'll be at the you-know-what for the you-know-what-international-you-know-what-festival as of next week, for about 10 days!
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 1 September 2005 22:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 1 September 2005 23:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Wiggy (Wiggy), Friday, 2 September 2005 02:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 2 September 2005 13:14 (eighteen years ago) link
My head kinda hurts, and the bitches are charging me for this wifi connection.
― kingfish holiday travesty (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 23 December 2005 01:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 23 December 2005 04:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― She's been known to sleep on piles of dry leaves... (papa november), Friday, 23 December 2005 04:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Friday, 23 December 2005 04:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish holiday travesty (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 23 December 2005 07:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Friday, 23 December 2005 07:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 23 December 2005 07:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Friday, 23 December 2005 07:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish holiday travesty (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 23 December 2005 07:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Friday, 23 December 2005 08:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish holiday travesty (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 23 December 2005 08:09 (eighteen years ago) link
so much random hottness wanders thru an airport
I'm not itchy yet
― kingfish holiday travesty (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 23:38 (eighteen years ago) link
and i'm at an airport!! at the same place as last november when i answered hari's question as to whether or not i was at covent garden a weekend before.
and i think i have talked myself to getting an exit row seat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sweet ass.
― ken c (ken c), Monday, 5 June 2006 04:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Monday, 5 June 2006 04:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Monday, 5 June 2006 04:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 5 June 2006 05:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Monday, 5 June 2006 05:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pete (Pete), Monday, 5 June 2006 06:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 24 August 2006 10:55 (seventeen years ago) link
-- s1ocki (slytus...), August 25th, 2005 6:04 PM. (slutsky)
almost a year to the day!
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 24 August 2006 10:57 (seventeen years ago) link
-- s1ocki (slytus...), February 15th, 2005 3:38 AM. (slutsky)
cigarette memories!
― passiflora incarnata (get bent), Sunday, 7 January 2007 10:38 (seventeen years ago) link
-took a photo of the "jetblue airways wireless hotspot free!" sign and the outlet right next to it (but my usb cable is in the bag i checked so i can't upload and be fully technonomadic) (thank god)-drank one vitamin water ("revive")-ate one banana
― passiflora incarnata (get bent), Sunday, 7 January 2007 10:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― zombierza (tehresa), Sunday, 7 January 2007 10:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 7 January 2007 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 7 January 2007 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― zombierza (tehresa), Sunday, 7 January 2007 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― jergins (jergins), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link
also, dude, try google one (1) time:
**Smoking is prohibited in all public areas inside the passenger terminals at Newark Liberty International Airport.
― jergins (jergins), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― cheesesteak and shake (dubplatestyle), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― shanghaied by the dragon lady (get bent), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― acid waffle house (dubplatestyle), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― shanghaied by the dragon lady (get bent), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link
-- acid waffle house (wt...), January 12th, 2007 10:22 PM. (dubplatestyle) (later)
haha! hey did you know that the QUEBEC version of the office premiered last night? may the lord have mercy on us all.
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― acid waffle house (dubplatestyle), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― acid waffle house (dubplatestyle), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:32 (seventeen years ago) link
i think the show was either "made in canada"or"the newsroom"
― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 13 January 2007 00:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 13 January 2007 02:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 13:01 (seventeen years ago) link
1) bought a breakfast bagel and coffee2) watched CNN coverage of state of the union3) fell asleep waiting for my flight to board4) woke up about two minutes two late to still board.5) got a boarding pass for the next flight (in two hours)6) chugged some Air-Borne
― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 13:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 13:05 (seventeen years ago) link
The ZRH terminal's color scheme is blue-grey and slate with a touch of red from the Swiss souvenir shop. I have an unconscious feeling that background music is playing somewhere but in true Enoian spirit I can't discern it. Large windows face the main runway and taxiways and there's just enough sunlight filtering through the clouds to vaguely color everything outside. With the exception of some ugly Americans (the ugliest being a loud guy in a Green Bay Packers sweatshirt who was berating a Swiss shopclerk because he couldn't take a liquid-filled snowglobe on a plane) most everyone here is pretty well dressed - businessmen taking one of the many outgoing flights to France, Germany, and Dubai.
Overall, I feel like I'm in a photo shoot for Nokia advertisments.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 5 February 2007 08:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― tuesdays with maury povich (get bent), Monday, 5 February 2007 08:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― is anyone anticipating the new Baaderonixx? (baaderonixx), Monday, 5 February 2007 09:59 (seventeen years ago) link
It sure is pretty though.
and the chocolate/sweet shop was great.
― jellybean (jellybean), Monday, 5 February 2007 10:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki, Friday, 2 March 2007 00:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki, Friday, 2 March 2007 00:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki, Friday, 2 March 2007 02:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― bell_labs, Monday, 30 April 2007 00:45 (sixteen years ago) link
― rrrobyn, Monday, 30 April 2007 00:53 (sixteen years ago) link
― bell_labs, Monday, 30 April 2007 01:23 (sixteen years ago) link
― Trayce, Monday, 30 April 2007 01:24 (sixteen years ago) link
― bell_labs, Monday, 30 April 2007 01:27 (sixteen years ago) link
― rrrobyn, Monday, 30 April 2007 01:29 (sixteen years ago) link
― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 30 April 2007 01:33 (sixteen years ago) link
― rrrobyn, Monday, 30 April 2007 01:54 (sixteen years ago) link
― rrrobyn, Monday, 30 April 2007 01:58 (sixteen years ago) link
― rrrobyn, Monday, 30 April 2007 02:00 (sixteen years ago) link
― river wolf, Monday, 30 April 2007 03:49 (sixteen years ago) link
i can has airport?
― get bent, Saturday, 2 June 2007 15:09 (sixteen years ago) link
SONGS THAT ARE ALWAYS RUNNING THROUGH MY HEAD WHEN I'M AT AN AIRPORT:
"Just A Song Before I Go" by CS&N "One Wink At A Time" by The Replacements "Flying Into Los Angeles" by Arlo Guthrie
― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 2 June 2007 16:16 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm in miami! i feel like david caruso. YYYYEAAAAH! (this airport is horrible btw.)
― get bent, Sunday, 3 June 2007 02:02 (sixteen years ago) link
I so did not think much of Miami's airport the one time I was there, the exception being the Cuban sandwiches (which I'm sure are much better in town and all but compared to most airport food in general are manna from heaven).
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 3 June 2007 02:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Most beautiful airport (for real): Ushuaia in southern Argentina. Small, modern, all wood, huge ceilings.
― calstars, Sunday, 3 June 2007 02:07 (sixteen years ago) link
the food options in american airlines terminal d are the pits. orange chicken is dodgy as a general rule, but this was a whole new level of bad.
― get bent, Sunday, 3 June 2007 02:21 (sixteen years ago) link
"One Wink At A Time" by The Replacements
not "waitress in the sky"?
― get bent, Sunday, 3 June 2007 02:22 (sixteen years ago) link
It should, but instead I get "Wink" going just by seeing the words BAGGAGE CLAIM up on the sign.
― Pleasant Plains, Sunday, 3 June 2007 02:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Been here since 445. It is so early! I am so tired! 3 hours of sleep owww.
― tehresa, Thursday, 9 August 2007 09:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Now I am at destination airport waiting for ride. Most efficient flight evar.
― tehresa, Thursday, 9 August 2007 11:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Where did you come fro mand where are you going?
― nathalie, Thursday, 9 August 2007 11:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Are you REDNEX in disguise?
― aldo, Thursday, 9 August 2007 12:03 (sixteen years ago) link
lol
― ailsa, Thursday, 9 August 2007 12:05 (sixteen years ago) link
(sorry, should just have excelsiored that, see my "people who talk without having anything to say" grievance on other thread)
Now I go home (I hope?) from buffalo to NYC but flight is scheduled to leave in 10 min and does not appear to be here yet.
― tehresa, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 00:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Vancouver airport has free wireless. Hurray!
It's the strangest airport I've been to on my 10 week trip. It has a tiny waterfall and native art dotted around the place. More airports should be like this...
― Jill, Sunday, 19 August 2007 03:23 (sixteen years ago) link
What is everybody's nomination for best airport food? I haven't been in many, and haven't hung around to eat in the all the ones I've been in, but Detroit had a long concourse with a bunch of decent looking eats, and I was able to get sushi during a short layover.
― Rock Hardy, Sunday, 19 August 2007 03:31 (sixteen years ago) link
i bought a banana with a credit card in frankfurt airport once
― s1ocki, Sunday, 19 August 2007 16:34 (sixteen years ago) link
tell a friend.
THEY ALREADY KNOW
― mark s, Sunday, 19 August 2007 16:36 (sixteen years ago) link
What is everybody's nomination for best airport food?
Figs at Laguardia
there's a place at SFO with decent sushi and sake that you can bring onboard with you
― gabbneb, Sunday, 19 August 2007 16:44 (sixteen years ago) link
this line is poetry
― get bent, Sunday, 19 August 2007 17:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Any good eating at Schipol (Amsterdam)?
― Rock Hardy, Sunday, 19 August 2007 17:11 (sixteen years ago) link
I've had above average food at PIT, ZRH, and TUC
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 20 August 2007 04:23 (sixteen years ago) link
ah the lovely cities of Pit, Zoreh and Turoc.
― s1ocki, Monday, 20 August 2007 04:35 (sixteen years ago) link
i had KFC in prague airport
― Ste, Monday, 20 August 2007 10:30 (sixteen years ago) link
I should have sought out this one the last time I was there. I had an hour to kill since after loading everyone on the plane and having us fasten the seat belts, they figured out there was a "loose piece of metal" on the bottom of the plane and we'd have to switch planes.
The Anchor Steam Brew Pub in the airport made a nice tuna sandwich that my expense account paid for, though.
― mh, Monday, 20 August 2007 13:42 (sixteen years ago) link
i am in an airport
― river wolf, Friday, 24 August 2007 11:55 (sixteen years ago) link
this thread is for fucking amateurs
― El Tomboto, Friday, 24 August 2007 11:58 (sixteen years ago) link
that is the sound of one hand slapping you upside the head, grasshopper
― El Tomboto, Friday, 24 August 2007 11:59 (sixteen years ago) link
i just drove across country! to get to an airport!
― river wolf, Friday, 24 August 2007 12:03 (sixteen years ago) link
exactly!
― El Tomboto, Friday, 24 August 2007 12:16 (sixteen years ago) link
:-/
― river wolf, Friday, 24 August 2007 14:41 (sixteen years ago) link
now i am in a different airport
― river wolf, Friday, 24 August 2007 17:08 (sixteen years ago) link
IN YR AREA, TOMBOT
― river wolf, Friday, 24 August 2007 17:09 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm on a train
-- s1ocki, Friday, March 2, 2007 12:56 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark Link and it is harry belafonte's 80th birthday
-- s1ocki, Friday, March 2, 2007 12:56 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark Link which i found out because i was listening to "...at carnegie hall" and i had this weird hunch it was harry belafonte's birthday so i looked it up
-- s1ocki, Friday, March 2, 2007 12:57 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark Link oh god delay from hell
-- s1ocki, Friday, March 2, 2007 2:43 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark Link
true story!
― s1ocki, Saturday, 25 August 2007 19:46 (sixteen years ago) link
i was in an airport in PEI this morning. very early this morning.
― s1ocki, Saturday, 25 August 2007 19:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Hello from Dubai. Only two hours to go before my connecting flight, but fortunately I have an excellent buffet not ten yards from my chair. I have been at the mini pittas and halloumi. But my body clock is fucked.
― Madchen, Sunday, 26 August 2007 01:57 (sixteen years ago) link
back in an airport
― river wolf, Sunday, 26 August 2007 20:16 (sixteen years ago) link
I am in an airport as well. JFK. It is well air conditioned in here. Thank you for the internet, JetBlue, it seems helpy.
― Casuistry, Sunday, 26 August 2007 22:28 (sixteen years ago) link
phoenix, i bought a gq and the cologne ads were killing me. being the worst smelling thing on a plane is quite an achievement.
― bnw, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 00:18 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm in an airport
― s1ocki, Sunday, 16 September 2007 22:47 (sixteen years ago) link
and i'm headachey
― s1ocki, Sunday, 16 September 2007 22:59 (sixteen years ago) link
lax, frontier airlines, sleepy
― get bent, Friday, 7 December 2007 17:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I miss the days of being able to just wander around an airport. Each time I go through LAX, I get "locked" inside the international terminal which is basically just one long hallway with a newstand, a duty-free shop, and a Burger King.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 7 December 2007 17:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Hi, JBR!
― Laurel, Friday, 7 December 2007 17:36 (sixteen years ago) link
LAX does have some of those caged in smoking areas that you can access even after you have been locked down. which is better then most
― carne asada, Friday, 7 December 2007 17:38 (sixteen years ago) link
hi laurel! i'm sitting in a corner of the terminal and a couple of cute australian kids are playing with matchbox cars in front of me.
― get bent, Friday, 7 December 2007 17:43 (sixteen years ago) link
St Louis has smoking fishbowls, too! They're actually better than usual, b/c they're not completely enclosed so the 4th side is open to the terminal, they must just have really efficient ventilation systems (b/c you can't smell any smoke outside 'em).
The best is still Minneapolis, though -- the smoking section is attached to a honest-to-god BAR, and it's just around the corner and down the hall from the best used bookstore I have ever been in.
― Laurel, Friday, 7 December 2007 17:45 (sixteen years ago) link
I liked Minneapolis with their tiny little escalators.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 7 December 2007 17:51 (sixteen years ago) link
memphis has a bar you can still smoke in. in terminal c i think, i know it's not in the same terminal as american airlines.
― chicago kevin, Friday, 7 December 2007 17:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Nice BBQ place, too.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 7 December 2007 18:00 (sixteen years ago) link
I will be in two airports today. Except they're Orange County's and Oakland's, and therefore there is nothing to say about them.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 December 2007 18:06 (sixteen years ago) link
I am eating bbq in a terminal.
I'm not in an airport, tho.
― gabbneb, Friday, 7 December 2007 18:12 (sixteen years ago) link
I remember standing outside Oakland's airport, trying to work the machine that gives you a bus ticket to the BART station at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. It ate all my quarters and I just stood there wondering what I was going to do when the bus came. (It finally spit out a ticket saying that I still owed a dollar.)
I got on the bus and sort of spazzed out trying to explain to the driver that I had put in the full fare into the machine, but it had short-changed me.
She responded by saying "It's cool! Relax, man. Have a seat." That was the moment that California won me over.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 7 December 2007 18:12 (sixteen years ago) link
ill be in little rock airport today but not going anywhere. just dropping off.
anchorage airport is pretty sweet at midnight in december.
where is jbr going?
― sunny successor, Friday, 7 December 2007 18:45 (sixteen years ago) link
my favorite airport in the LA area has got to be Long Beach. that place is great
― carne asada, Friday, 7 December 2007 18:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Little Rock's cool since they added the video screen showing weary passengers stomping up the departure corridor.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 7 December 2007 19:08 (sixteen years ago) link
oh that is awesome!
― tehresa, Friday, 7 December 2007 19:09 (sixteen years ago) link
I walk like a monkey, staring straight into the camera, when I'm walking through there.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 7 December 2007 19:20 (sixteen years ago) link
long beach is awesome, burbank also awesome. lax = not awesome, except for the encounter.
jbr -> nyc
― get bent, Friday, 7 December 2007 21:47 (sixteen years ago) link
I almost just asked where your layovers were before remembering that those some cities have direct flights to places.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 7 December 2007 21:55 (sixteen years ago) link
my layover was in denver (frontier's hub). it was fine; i was able to get some edible food at a sitdown "bistro."
― get bent, Saturday, 8 December 2007 11:36 (sixteen years ago) link
See any Masonic wonders?
― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 8 December 2007 14:18 (sixteen years ago) link
i dropped off a friend at the Little Rock airport last night. it looked pretty cool. i didn't get to see the aforementioned screen though.
― will, Saturday, 8 December 2007 16:02 (sixteen years ago) link
It's in the new waiting area since you can't go into the actual terminals anymore.
Another Little Rocker?
― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 8 December 2007 16:57 (sixteen years ago) link
nah. I was over there for work for the last couple of weeks. Little Rock is OK! I'd never spent any time there, other than passing through going to TX. Perhaps a little on the sleepy side, but they seem to have done a lot of things right that Mem got wrong.
― will, Saturday, 8 December 2007 17:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Tomorrow I go from SNA to SEA. The best thing about SNA = the "FAA approved" takeoffs for reduced noise. Basically wind the plane up hard on the tarmac, release the brakes, zoom sharply up to a couple thousand feet, then cut the engines and coast out over the ocean. Eventually the engines get kicked back in and away you go.
― Jaq, Saturday, 8 December 2007 17:16 (sixteen years ago) link
LR copied Memphis and put a damn trolley downtown that nobody ever rides.
We also have a submarine that the mayor desperately wants everyone to see. Maybe when Raggett comes to town.
― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 8 December 2007 17:37 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah it's dumber than shit (as is ours), but at least it's more or less confined to Markham(?) in the downtown mall area. they extended ours (which is embarrassingly empty) off of Main, through the medical district where it finally peters out in Midtown, for no other apparent reason than to completely muck up the traffic flow on Madison. The way I go to work. Brilliant.
― will, Saturday, 8 December 2007 19:06 (sixteen years ago) link
i am not in an airport yet, but will be soon. i just checked and my flight appears to be delayed approximately an hour. should i go later than i planned, or just sit through the delay in case it somehow ends up leaving earlier?
― tehresa, Thursday, 20 December 2007 20:50 (sixteen years ago) link
My dad recommended I go on time. Now it's even more delayed and I'm drinking a pint glass sized gin and tonic at the airport chilis oh my
― tehresa, Thursday, 20 December 2007 23:20 (sixteen years ago) link
that's like 100% of the fun of getting delayed
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 20 December 2007 23:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I love giant fuckoff adult beverages at airports
I am getting drunk and watching people get wanded cause this place is right by security
― tehresa, Thursday, 20 December 2007 23:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Hey guy in flight crew uniform: are you about to order booze then fly a plane? I'm watching u!
― tehresa, Thursday, 20 December 2007 23:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Hispanic waitress calling me mami and singing rockin' around the christmas tree: you are quite a lady
― tehresa, Thursday, 20 December 2007 23:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Ok the novelty's worn off. I just want to leave now ugh.
― tehresa, Friday, 21 December 2007 00:50 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm in an airport.
― gr8080, Friday, 21 December 2007 05:41 (sixteen years ago) link
and i'm stranded.
at least you have internet. what airport?
― J0rdan S., Friday, 21 December 2007 05:42 (sixteen years ago) link
o'hare.
never ever try traveling on two separate airlines in the same day. especially around the holidays. if one fucks you over the other couldn't care less.
― gr8080, Friday, 21 December 2007 05:42 (sixteen years ago) link
i honestly might be here for a day or two.
― gr8080, Friday, 21 December 2007 05:43 (sixteen years ago) link
:( good luck
― strgn, Friday, 21 December 2007 05:51 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm camped out next to some payphones because its the only electrical outlet i could find. one of the payphones was ringing so i picked it up and said "hello?" a woman on the other end asked if Drea was there and i told her no Drea had left.
fuck i am bored.
― gr8080, Friday, 21 December 2007 05:52 (sixteen years ago) link
oh grady :(
go to bar! seriously, it helped me for about an hour. maybe they are closed now though? i was about to murder people by the time my plane finally boarded.
i once did 2 different airlines for international travel: super bad idea.
― tehresa, Friday, 21 December 2007 05:54 (sixteen years ago) link
the thing is that i cant get through security until i'm signed up for standby and i cant do that for another 5 hours.
there is this hilton right across from where the taxis pick you up. i suppose i could get a drink there.
― gr8080, Friday, 21 December 2007 05:57 (sixteen years ago) link
DO IT. Stay out of security as long as you can... once you're on the other side, it's soooo hellish.
― tehresa, Friday, 21 December 2007 05:57 (sixteen years ago) link
a guy just came looking to plug his phone in but i'm using the only two outlets. i offered to unplug my computer for a while but he said nevermind and walked away.
― gr8080, Friday, 21 December 2007 05:58 (sixteen years ago) link
don't eat sbarro
― J0rdan S., Friday, 21 December 2007 05:58 (sixteen years ago) link
but that's general airport advice
solitaire
vegas style
― strgn, Friday, 21 December 2007 05:59 (sixteen years ago) link
no nevermind drink at the hilton
― strgn, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:01 (sixteen years ago) link
i am going to eat the shit out of a Great American Bagel® breakfast bagel as soon as i can get on the other side of security. best food in o'hare.
― gr8080, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:01 (sixteen years ago) link
EAT AT SBARRO ROMANTING CURTAINS PARMAZING CHEESE DISPENDER!!!!
no, don't. it's awful and scary.
― tehresa, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:01 (sixteen years ago) link
yes otm. always eat there @ st. louis airport
― J0rdan S., Friday, 21 December 2007 06:02 (sixteen years ago) link
about great american bagel that is
dude on payphones is fucking pissed because whoever was coming to pick him up (in the cold, in the middle of the night, from Gary, IN) got a flat tire and the spare was flat to begin with and they have no money for a tow truck.
― gr8080, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:03 (sixteen years ago) link
well that's what they get for living in Gary, IN!
― tehresa, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:03 (sixteen years ago) link
gr80 needs to attend the el tomboto airport party clinic I can hang out in an airport for hours and hours and not get bored
― El Tomboto, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:03 (sixteen years ago) link
some kids just asked me what time it is.
― gr8080, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Damn, gr8080. :-( Sucks and a half.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:04 (sixteen years ago) link
this is because every time I enter an airport I am already psychologically prepared to die and spend eternity in hell
― El Tomboto, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:04 (sixteen years ago) link
it is kind of a viking mindset
I can hang out in an airport for hours and hours and not get bored
i can too usually, but not on this side of security. actually since i have wifi i'm not really too bored. just kind of crushed.
― gr8080, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:05 (sixteen years ago) link
people with children eating fast food and talking on cell phones about nothing but very loudly in close proximity for all eternity
― tehresa, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:05 (sixteen years ago) link
hey i just remembered i have a mini-bottle of cuervo in my bag that the barbershop in the east village gave me as a holiday present.
― gr8080, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:06 (sixteen years ago) link
all the bars in o'hare are on the other side of security? and you can't get on standby for five hours?
that's pretty extraordinary circumstances
― El Tomboto, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:06 (sixteen years ago) link
i am an extraordinary traveler.
― gr8080, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:07 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't mind being in airports forever
― J0rdan S., Friday, 21 December 2007 06:07 (sixteen years ago) link
good to read stuff and if there is wireless available i could deal
i would get tired of the seats tho
seriously: hilton
― tehresa, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:08 (sixteen years ago) link
but first milk that shot of cuervo
― strgn, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:09 (sixteen years ago) link
hiltooooon
― J0rdan S., Friday, 21 December 2007 06:09 (sixteen years ago) link
drinking and layovers were made for each other
― strgn, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:10 (sixteen years ago) link
drinking and _____ were made for each other
travelling without drinking? I'd rather listen to jamiroquai
― El Tomboto, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:11 (sixteen years ago) link
btw: that pint of gin&tonic ended up costing me $12. at least it was tanqueray and not well.
― tehresa, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:11 (sixteen years ago) link
the only thing on this side of security is a starbucks and i think its closed now. i "landed" and got my luggage on airline A, but 12 hours late to catch my flight on airline B. Airline B's ticket desk isn't open till 5:30 AM, and even though they were there when i first got there, they couldn't get me standby for friday travel until friday.
airline A is the one that fucked up, but basically i fucked myself by trying to think this would work.
also, airline B is the expensive flight that work paid for and airline A was the cheap one i bought on my own.
― gr8080, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:11 (sixteen years ago) link
jesus christ. well, you live and learn, I suppose. I have had similarly extra-long standby layovers but never overnight.
― El Tomboto, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:13 (sixteen years ago) link
I will use MINDWAVES to send you some MINDWINE
― El Tomboto, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:14 (sixteen years ago) link
RED OR WHITE
i'd take a MINDBOARDINGPASS over mindwine.
― gr8080, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:14 (sixteen years ago) link
tomboto are you extracting the mindwine from your very own mindgrape?
― J0rdan S., Friday, 21 December 2007 06:18 (sixteen years ago) link
zing?
― gr8080, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:18 (sixteen years ago) link
lol no 30 rock ref idk if tombot watches it tho
― J0rdan S., Friday, 21 December 2007 06:19 (sixteen years ago) link
gr80 does o'hare have free wireless?
― J0rdan S., Friday, 21 December 2007 06:20 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah i'd probably take having a seat over both alcohol and not listening to jamiroquai, but the important thing is once you have a seat you can do both of those
― strgn, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:21 (sixteen years ago) link
the worst is trying to stake out a spot for leg-resting and maybe lying down... hopefully you don't have to deal with tvs tuned to cnn every twenty feet since you're not past security? then again it's probably linoleum instead of carpet, yikes.
― strgn, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:23 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah i am sitting on the ground at the bottom of the escalators that people arriving come down to the baggage claim area on.
wifi is $6/24hrs which i figure is worth it in this circumstance.
i think i might pack up computer and try and sleep for a little bit.
― gr8080, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:31 (sixteen years ago) link
now my phone's fully charged again so i can move to a more comfortable spot, too.
― gr8080, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't watch 30 rock but I am sad that MINDWINE is not my og idea
grady in your situation I would consider hitting up some free online games
― El Tomboto, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:34 (sixteen years ago) link
doukutsu is pretty good
also the demo for weird world return to infinite space
― El Tomboto, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:35 (sixteen years ago) link
also N
seriously just google search for the letter N
― El Tomboto, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:36 (sixteen years ago) link
where you at gr8ee, newark?
― max, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:41 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm at o'hare, max.
my ipod is charged now too. i think i'm gonna try and find a safer/more comfortable spot to curl up for a few hours.
― gr8080, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:45 (sixteen years ago) link
future tip for all fliers: if youre somewhere around a continental "president's lounge" you can get free wireless just by parking near there
― max, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:53 (sixteen years ago) link
i got about 3.5 hours of sleep on a wooden bench.
the ticket desk that wasn't supposed to be open till 5:30 was open at 4:00. its a good thing too, because my situation required i get in a separate line being serviced by only two ticket agents. when i got in line there were only three or four people ahead of me but by the time i was at the front, there was a good 40 people in line behind me. apparently an entire flight to orlando got cancelled.
but i got on standby for the same flight i missed yesterday, and as of 30 mins ago i was the only one on the standby list.
i just had a breakfast bagel and i think i'm going back for another.
also, i'm at a little desk with a stool that looks like it used to have payphones at it as i type this. not slouched on the floor somewhere. life is so much better this side of security!
i just had a breakfast bagel and i think i'm going to have another.
― gr8080, Friday, 21 December 2007 11:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Is that 2 or 3?
― Ed, Friday, 21 December 2007 11:23 (sixteen years ago) link
wow bagels are making my morning apparently.
― gr8080, Friday, 21 December 2007 11:23 (sixteen years ago) link
ha
ed when do you get to chicago again?
― gr8080, Friday, 21 December 2007 11:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Tomorrow, I will be able to check in in 5 minutes, hopefully scoring my favorite seat on the plane.
― Ed, Friday, 21 December 2007 11:26 (sixteen years ago) link
I am celebrating going to america by spelling the american way
― Ed, Friday, 21 December 2007 11:27 (sixteen years ago) link
if all goes well i wont be here anymore, but can't say for sure yet.
― gr8080, Friday, 21 December 2007 11:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Checked in, I shall be at the airport tomorrow. Heathrow T4 seems to have the worst bars even of the shit selection at Heathrow. They seem to franchise them out to the worst chain pubs and restaurants in Britain. At least in T1 they have a giraffe franchise and you can get an acceptable bloody mary. T4 has weatherspoons, EST EST EST and Garfunkles.
― Ed, Friday, 21 December 2007 11:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Will of course be hell tomorrow as half of Britain will be attempting to leave through Heathrow.
― Ed, Friday, 21 December 2007 11:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Wildcat cabin crew strikes/walkouts notwithstanding.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 21 December 2007 11:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Indeed. Also, I was dismayed to see that my plane was over two hours late yesterday.
― Ed, Friday, 21 December 2007 11:52 (sixteen years ago) link
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/931354.jpg
― gr8080, Friday, 21 December 2007 13:38 (sixteen years ago) link
My goodness, haven't you people heard of Eurostar!
― Rib Dinner, Friday, 21 December 2007 14:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Carbon neutral and running into Europe at 186 mph!
― Rib Dinner, Friday, 21 December 2007 14:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Not to chicago it isn't
I am a climate criminal, I know this.
― Ed, Friday, 21 December 2007 14:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Grady, you still in Chicago?
yes.
on standby for a flight that leaves in 90 mins.
if i dont make this flight it probably wont be till tomorrow morning that i get out of here.
― gr8080, Friday, 21 December 2007 14:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Good luck with that.
If not then you better plan some good eating to get you through the night. I recommend Tony Lao's down in china town. Get and order of Tony Lao's Chicken. It rocks.
― Ed, Friday, 21 December 2007 14:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Being on standby is the crappiest thing ever. Be thankful you aren't doing it at Gatwick which has the worst security queues ever when they check you onto your flight with 30 minutes to go until the plane pushes back off stance and there's still a two-hour security queue to get through when you're in a party of five, one of whom is elderly and cannot rush anywhere terribly effectively.
When we came back from Tampa earlier this year, there were the five of us on standby and only four standby places left on the plane, so my brother got left there for 24 hours while we just headed on home without him. He then got the only place on the next flight or would have been there for a further 24 hours. Your pain is being felt, gr8080.
― ailsa, Friday, 21 December 2007 14:59 (sixteen years ago) link
(disclaimer: I have no idea what the security queues are like at O'Hare, but they can't be as bad as Gatwick where all domestic and international passengers get herded through the same bottleneck)
― ailsa, Friday, 21 December 2007 15:00 (sixteen years ago) link
O'Hare can be pretty horrific, at least in the international Terminal. However the bar is right by the security queue and you can sit and drink until it dwindles or your flight gets so close that they start pulling people out of the queue.
― Ed, Friday, 21 December 2007 15:05 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.abovethelaw.com/images/entries/drudge%20siren.gifBOARDING PASShttp://www.abovethelaw.com/images/entries/drudge%20siren.gif
― gr8080, Friday, 21 December 2007 15:08 (sixteen years ago) link
WOOOOOO!
― Ed, Friday, 21 December 2007 15:08 (sixteen years ago) link
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ed, we will have to meet another time.
Indeed we shall. Find your local TV station and tell them to buy some software from me, then I can come and install it in Honolulu.
― Ed, Friday, 21 December 2007 15:09 (sixteen years ago) link
My brother just approached a friendly looking queue-monitoring dude at the barriers and waved boarding passes at him and explained and the guy said he'd let us through. So my brother waved at me, I gathered up the parents and husband, and we walked down and the guy let us in, one at a time, into the front of different queues. Unfortunately (for them) the people behind us (queuing for a flight due to leave in about three hours or so) thought they'd got in on our wee game of queue-jumping and followed us down only to be told to get back in the queue upon production of their not-terribly-urgent boarding passes. The queue in which they'd now lost their places.
― ailsa, Friday, 21 December 2007 15:11 (sixteen years ago) link
by the way in case anyone is wondering, the current terror alert level is:
ORANGE
― gr8080, Friday, 21 December 2007 15:12 (sixteen years ago) link
xposts
Can you just pretend you've not heard the call though, sit and drink, then go "whoops, silly me" and get let into the front of the queue though? We only did it because the silly mare on the BA check-in desk wouldn't check us in on standby seats until the check-in closed even though there were stacks of empty seats on the flight.
― ailsa, Friday, 21 December 2007 15:13 (sixteen years ago) link
also yay for gr8080's boarding pass
― ailsa, Friday, 21 December 2007 15:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Indeed, this has been by strategy. xpost
― Ed, Friday, 21 December 2007 15:17 (sixteen years ago) link
That's a brilliant strategy, and one I may try in future, to the wrath of everyone else in the queue. There is nothing more embarrassing than being the last person on a plane when everyone else is settled though, and everyone glaring at you because they know fine well they'd have got an early take-off slot if you hadn't been fannying around elsewhere.
― ailsa, Friday, 21 December 2007 15:27 (sixteen years ago) link
so jetlagged
― rrrobyn, Friday, 21 December 2007 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm in an airport, waiting for the Delta Shuttle, and there's this weird lounge filled with Apple computers and no one is in here and I'm not sure if I'm supposed to be in here.
― Virginia Plain, Saturday, 22 December 2007 01:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm not in an airport, I am in a tent just outside and airport waiting to get let into an airport.
― Ed, Saturday, 22 December 2007 08:49 (sixteen years ago) link
An hour and a half to drop bags and then a last minute gate change from one end of the airport to the other. We'll be at least an hour late departing and there is no catering within quater of a mile of this gate, bah.
― Ed, Saturday, 22 December 2007 12:06 (sixteen years ago) link
― s1ocki, Thursday, 27 December 2007 21:09 (sixteen years ago) link
how's that itch?
― omar little, Thursday, 27 December 2007 21:11 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm on year airplane, preparing fr takeoffs
― tehresa, Thursday, 27 December 2007 21:15 (sixteen years ago) link
-- omar little, Thursday, December 27, 2007 9:11 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark
ehh.
― s1ocki, Thursday, 27 December 2007 21:24 (sixteen years ago) link
HI DERE.
Chilling at LAX. No earlier OC flight home than 6:11 pm, so I'm considering Encounter for a bit.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 December 2007 00:08 (sixteen years ago) link
isn't encounter like a spiderwork of iron death right now?
― remy bean, Friday, 28 December 2007 00:44 (sixteen years ago) link
what the hell is encounter??
― s1ocki, Friday, 28 December 2007 01:07 (sixteen years ago) link
LAX's semi-esteemed ca. 1970s Jetsons-inspired eatery/bar
― remy bean, Friday, 28 December 2007 01:09 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2007-11/33744084.jpg
there were eleven types of scaffolding up around the pylons i flew out on the 17th
― remy bean, Friday, 28 December 2007 01:10 (sixteen years ago) link
encounter looks cool!
― s1ocki, Friday, 28 December 2007 03:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Encounter is very very cool. (Ended up not going, but while the outside's still being redone, the bar itself is open again.)
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 December 2007 04:24 (sixteen years ago) link
the name is so... touchy-feely.
― s1ocki, Friday, 28 December 2007 04:26 (sixteen years ago) link
I wouldn't go that far.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 December 2007 04:30 (sixteen years ago) link
http://thecia.com.au/reviews/c/images/close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-4.jpg
― gabbneb, Friday, 28 December 2007 04:43 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm going to be in an airport tomorrow, but not to fly.
http://www.jfkiat.com/header/header_7.jpg
― get bent, Friday, 28 December 2007 05:05 (sixteen years ago) link
I like the open-air building style of OGG (plus the fact that the airport code is OGG)
Checked out Encounter a couple weeks ago and am glad to see that it's back in business (and that the food has improved too!)
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 28 December 2007 07:33 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm at laguardia. and it sux. but i won't be here for long.
― get bent, Monday, 7 January 2008 11:10 (sixteen years ago) link
― gr8080, Monday, 25 February 2008 14:40 (sixteen years ago) link
i had a breakfast burrito and O.J.
then i bought vitamin water and some ricola because i think i'm getting sick.
― gr8080, Monday, 25 February 2008 14:41 (sixteen years ago) link
― gr8080, Sunday, 16 March 2008 04:17 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm drinking bourbon.
i'm about to ride a prop plane for my first time.
― gr8080, Sunday, 16 March 2008 04:20 (sixteen years ago) link
where u go?
― tehresa, Sunday, 16 March 2008 04:20 (sixteen years ago) link
lanai! the smallest island you can actually visit.
― gr8080, Sunday, 16 March 2008 04:32 (sixteen years ago) link
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/bar.jpg
― gr8080, Sunday, 16 March 2008 04:33 (sixteen years ago) link
in hawaii do they give u bourbon w/ an umbrella?
― tehresa, Sunday, 16 March 2008 04:44 (sixteen years ago) link
if you request it.
― gr8080, Sunday, 16 March 2008 04:46 (sixteen years ago) link
pronounced [lɑːnɑʔi]) is the sixth-largest of the Hawaiian Islands. It is also known as the Pineapple Island because of its past as an island-wide pineapple plantation. The only town is Lānaʻi City, a small settlement. The island is somewhat comma-shaped, with a width of 18 miles in the longest direction. The land area is 140.5 square miles (364 km²), making it the 42nd largest island in the United States.[3] It is separated from the island of Molokaʻi by the Kalohi Channel to the north, and from Maui by the ʻAuʻau Channel to the east. The United States Census Bureau defines Lānaʻi as Census Tract 316 of Maui County. Its total population was 3,193 as of the 2000 census.[4]. Many of the island's landmarks and sites are located off of dirt roads where four wheel drive is required.
― gr8080, Sunday, 16 March 2008 04:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Sky Harbor arrivals. Doing tree pose. Just thinking baout things.
― felicity, Saturday, 22 March 2008 17:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Are they going to drop you into the middle of the Island of Ferocious Man-Hungry Bikini Chix?
― Rock Hardy, Saturday, 22 March 2008 17:35 (sixteen years ago) link
i was in sky harbor last month.
― gr8080, Saturday, 22 March 2008 18:11 (sixteen years ago) link
You mean Hohokam? Yep. :)
― felicity, Saturday, 22 March 2008 18:39 (sixteen years ago) link
also ive been to truck stops bigger than the Lana'i airport. :)
― gr8080, Saturday, 22 March 2008 18:50 (sixteen years ago) link
On the jetway in Bubank with an entire high school girls water polo team in uniform.
― felicity, Friday, 11 April 2008 19:20 (sixteen years ago) link
that's where i am.
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 00:57 (fifteen years ago) link
i mean, refer to thread title. i wish i was with an entire high school girls water polo team in uniform.
At the K-10 bar at O'Hare. Drinking an Old Style Light watching the Cubs. ("Your team. Your beer.")
― felicity, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 01:16 (fifteen years ago) link
My dog is stoned on puppy tranquilizers.
― felicity, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 01:52 (fifteen years ago) link
ayo
at kci until flight leaves at 2:15 then onto nashville where i have a 3 hr layover >:[ pretty good airport here, free wireless but it's kinda fucking slow. would rather pay $10 for it to be fast about to smash a wolfgang puck sandwich i think cuz that's all they got inside the gate. is remoulade sauce any good? i rly just want a piece of pizza >_<
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 17 May 2008 17:46 (fifteen years ago) link
lost ipod= WORST FLIGHTS EVER http://photos.ivillage.com/images/photos/resize/pp_Baby%20Photo%20Gallery_1152305917514_431365D.jpg
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 17 May 2008 17:48 (fifteen years ago) link
sitting across from a dude who's a dead ringer for curtis
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 17 May 2008 18:10 (fifteen years ago) link
slow ass internet won't even load the new ep of the office on hulu
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 17 May 2008 18:11 (fifteen years ago) link
kci is a good airport for beginning or ending at, not so much for sitting around since there's not much inside security :-/
― circles, Saturday, 17 May 2008 19:20 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah my flight got delayed an hour and it's real fucking boring here
has anyone been to an airport where they make you pay to use outlets? they make you at dfw, so at least kci's got fucking free power going for it
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 17 May 2008 19:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Ouch that is harsh never seen that before. Of course a lot of airports don't have outlets and you have to search around for the ones the cleaners use.
― Ed, Saturday, 17 May 2008 19:41 (fifteen years ago) link
in nashville for 2 hours now
basically got a high-quality mini-mall/food court in the terminal here and the internet is quick and @ $9.99 for 2 hours it's pretty worth it
they also have country singers that say shit over the PA like "hello, this is X from sugarland. remember, if you see any suspicious baggage throughout the terminal, please immediately notify the appropriate authorities," which is pretty rad
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 17 May 2008 21:47 (fifteen years ago) link
deborah allen says to visit "flynashville.com"
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 17 May 2008 21:48 (fifteen years ago) link
i grew up in nashville! i love that airport!!
― Surmounter, Saturday, 17 May 2008 21:49 (fifteen years ago) link
do they still have that smoking room?>
it's like glass and smoky
― Surmounter, Saturday, 17 May 2008 21:50 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm sure they do, most airports do, but i haven't seen it
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 17 May 2008 21:51 (fifteen years ago) link
are you gonna get a drink?
― Surmounter, Saturday, 17 May 2008 21:52 (fifteen years ago) link
oh wait you're little are you legal?
yeah im only 20, so no
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 17 May 2008 21:52 (fifteen years ago) link
riiight.
i love airpots tho. are you gonna get anything to eat?
― Surmounter, Saturday, 17 May 2008 21:54 (fifteen years ago) link
lol ya they got a rly nice food court. probably gonna get some some pizza from this place that looks like a nicer sbarro. maybe quiznos
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 17 May 2008 21:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Ahh, the Nashville airport. I love that smoking room. It almost makes me want to quit.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 17 May 2008 21:58 (fifteen years ago) link
hahaha
i love that you know it! there's something extra smokey about that one in particular.
mmm sbarro.
― Surmounter, Saturday, 17 May 2008 21:59 (fifteen years ago) link
I lived in Nashville for four years, so I'm pretty familiar with it.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 17 May 2008 22:04 (fifteen years ago) link
It's kind of like an observation chamber from Silence of the Lambs.
omgosh i know. where did you live?
― Surmounter, Saturday, 17 May 2008 22:05 (fifteen years ago) link
I lived east of the airport, on Bell Rd (worked in Mt. Juliet).
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 17 May 2008 22:10 (fifteen years ago) link
so sad you are underage. airport drinking is the best.
― tehresa, Saturday, 17 May 2008 22:31 (fifteen years ago) link
the most interesting characters choose to spend layover time in airport bars. can you go there and order coke?
i agree -- i also just recently discovered plane drinking. not bad at all.
― Surmounter, Saturday, 17 May 2008 23:58 (fifteen years ago) link
i flew on my 21st birthday and got all kinds of free drinks from flight attendants and ppl sitting by me and never even told anyone it was my 21st. totally cosmic.
― gr8080, Sunday, 18 May 2008 00:07 (fifteen years ago) link
My turn now. London city, the bar here is very dissapointing, however great to go through somewhere small enough that train-security-bar takes 5 minutes.
― Ed, Sunday, 18 May 2008 15:15 (fifteen years ago) link
that is great
― Surmounter, Sunday, 18 May 2008 15:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Why do bars in british airports suck so much. I would like a pint of say gin and grapefruit juice (preferably a dutch oude jenever but that is pushing it). Est Est Est, garfunkels and wetherspoons are not coming up with the goods.
― Ed, Friday, 23 May 2008 17:53 (fifteen years ago) link
You have got to be kidding. Dunno where you are, but Chavwick is even worse than that. You will be lucky to get lime in your G&T and the gin will be Gordon's.
BTW massive IKEA hassle, 15 minute fight with Computer Says D'oh type first thing this morning. Will mail ya later.
― suzy, Friday, 23 May 2008 17:57 (fifteen years ago) link
I've always wanted to post on this thread.
I'm in an airport - Philadelphia. Soon I'll be in Denver (ANOTHER AIRPORT!) and then Boulder.
― Z S, Sunday, 25 May 2008 13:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Damn, I wish I could join the Drinking at the Airport gang. But it's 9am.
― Z S, Sunday, 25 May 2008 13:07 (fifteen years ago) link
nothing is stopping you
― Ed, Sunday, 25 May 2008 13:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I've never flown Continental before so this is my first experience with LAX's Terminal 6. Not squalid but pretty worn down. On my way to SDF via Houston.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 19 June 2008 06:35 (fifteen years ago) link
IAH is tremendously ugly. Terminals and passageways shoved together out of necessity with no regard to passenger traffic flow. Grafting TSA security checkpoints only magnifies things. Insult to injury: the first thing I see getting off the plane is the Fox News Store followed by a statue of George H W Bush.
On the plus side the breakfast plate special at Harlon's BBQ (eggs, bacon, grits, & biscuits/gravy) was outstanding and cost less than a single beer at LAX.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 19 June 2008 11:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Further insult to injury: the Chautauqua (much-maligned CO feeder carrier) TundraJet you'll be on IAH-SDF.
― Jeff Wright, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link
i will be flying through phoenix on my way to maui in a few weeks... how's that airport?
― tehresa, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Tiny. It's fine though. What airline are you flying that puts you through PHX and not LAX to Maui?
― felicity, Thursday, 19 June 2008 18:57 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm in Cleveland! But soon I won't be.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 June 2008 15:12 (fifteen years ago) link
a House of Rep member from my state (actually hometown) is sitting right next to me. no chance of being airborn for at least 2 more hrs. good times
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Chris_Murphy_official_photo.jpg/160px-Chris_Murphy_official_photo.jpg
― johnny crunch, Monday, 23 June 2008 19:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I will be in Cleveland in 2 days! another Raggett near-miss.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 23 June 2008 19:50 (fifteen years ago) link
felicity, i'm flying us air
― tehresa, Monday, 23 June 2008 19:52 (fifteen years ago) link
It's supposed to be rainy as heck here all week, Morbius. We had a hailstorm yesterday. A HAILSTORM.
― Pancakes Hackman, Monday, 23 June 2008 19:53 (fifteen years ago) link
We're supposed to have hail in NY perhaps too. Weather.com describes upcoming CLE storms as "scattered."
As long as they get the Sabathia game in Friday night! (of course I might spontaneously go Thursday night too if Fri looks bad.)
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 23 June 2008 20:18 (fifteen years ago) link
there are slot machines everywhere.
but it's okay, i have a sandwich.
― Mr. Que, Monday, 23 June 2008 20:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, I lucked out with good weather for my flights today but the Ohio and Cuyahoga Valleys' weather in general has been, how you say, flaky...
Anyway I am now not in an airport and won't be for eight days. Hurrah for Charleston. Train stations, another matter...
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 June 2008 20:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Friday, Schmiday. I've got tix for Saturday's game, so I'm holding out for sunshine.
― Pancakes Hackman, Monday, 23 June 2008 21:59 (fifteen years ago) link
SFO. On the jetway, was in Admirals Club with comp vouchers. It seems like such a ripoff. Who pays for that? Although the bartender did fill up my outside Diet Coke for me.
― felicity, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 03:35 (fifteen years ago) link
I am on an air train. Flight leaves in 50 min. Will I make it? Probably, but I wish it was faster to get here.
― tehresa, Sunday, 29 June 2008 13:06 (fifteen years ago) link
JFK airtarain, hell yeah. EWR airtrain, start praying.
― Ed, Sunday, 29 June 2008 13:13 (fifteen years ago) link
JFK. On the plane now! Fuck a window seat for a 5.5 hour flight tho! Claustrophobia ahoy!
― tehresa, Sunday, 29 June 2008 13:45 (fifteen years ago) link
take some tylenol PM
― max, Sunday, 29 June 2008 14:21 (fifteen years ago) link
like six of them
A window is far superior, fuck having people climb over you for 5 and a half hours.
― Ed, Sunday, 29 June 2008 14:49 (fifteen years ago) link
A small price to pay, really.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 29 June 2008 15:05 (fifteen years ago) link
There must be a poll in this.
― Ed, Sunday, 29 June 2008 16:58 (fifteen years ago) link
no no...no people climbing over
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Sunday, 29 June 2008 17:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Guys I was stuck with this dude who did not understand seat/space boundaries and also was asleep most of the time then there was turbulence with mandatory seatbelt time and I couldn't get up to pee for like 2 hours and now I'm in phx and it's a pretty shitty. airport. Ticket sez next leg is aisle heaven!
― tehresa, Sunday, 29 June 2008 19:41 (fifteen years ago) link
now I'm in phx and it's a pretty shitty airport
AT LEAST IT'S NOT BARCADE
― mookieproof, Sunday, 29 June 2008 19:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Lol tru but I almost went postal on the dude selling credit cards that wouldn't stop harassing me every time I walked by and then giggling about it with his coworker. Very professional. Joke's on you dude, I'm going to. Hawaii and you're in an airport selling credit cards.
― tehresa, Sunday, 29 June 2008 20:36 (fifteen years ago) link
i have 8 hours in the reykjavik airport! it is a decent airport, but not big. i ended up taking a really long walk around the parking lot in circles, pushing my luggage trolley and talking to myself while staring at a weird sculpture on top of a pile of rocks). then i discovered the free wireless. probably could've gone into the city and stored my stuff at the bus station, but i'm preparing for a summer of physical labor with EXTREME SLOTH.
― Maria, Sunday, 29 June 2008 20:49 (fifteen years ago) link
8 hour layover in reijavik airport = trip to the blue lagoon, natural hot springs about half way to the town. You can rent everything, towels etc.
― Ed, Sunday, 29 June 2008 20:59 (fifteen years ago) link
i heard that but i have nowhere to put my luggage, would have to unpack a 21-kilo backpack to find my swimsuit, and don't know where this blue lagoon IS. also, i'm really lazy, and haven't read my archaeological field manual like a good dig volunteer.
― Maria, Sunday, 29 June 2008 22:26 (fifteen years ago) link
go ask someone what it took to get all that wood in the reykjavik airport!
― mookieproof, Sunday, 29 June 2008 22:33 (fifteen years ago) link
― s1ocki, Thursday, 3 July 2008 18:50 (fifteen years ago) link
and i'm headache-y
― s1ocki, Thursday, 3 July 2008 18:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Not again.
Lol tru but I almost went postal on the dude selling credit cards that wouldn't stop harassing me every time I walked by and then giggling about it with his coworker.
Dealt with someone similar in Denver. A tool, of course.
I was in Phx's airport two days after tehresa, and yet it was not that bad. Wasn't GREAT but wasn't bad.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 July 2008 18:53 (fifteen years ago) link
i am really trying to enjoy this internet access cuz it cost way too much
― s1ocki, Thursday, 3 July 2008 19:22 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm just... bathing in it
let it calm you with its soothing sounds
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 3 July 2008 19:25 (fifteen years ago) link
internet has a sound?
― s1ocki, Thursday, 3 July 2008 19:26 (fifteen years ago) link
sshhh listen
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 3 July 2008 19:28 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.foi.se/upload/framsyn/05/nr1-05-internet-iceberg.jpg
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 3 July 2008 19:29 (fifteen years ago) link
http://images.teamsugar.com/files/upl0/0/3987/14_2008/300.jpg
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 3 July 2008 19:30 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm in a karlovy vary.
― s1ocki, Friday, 4 July 2008 08:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Phx again. They just boarded is and then came on with an announcement that our departure has been pushed back an hour. Can I pls to go back to Hawaii now? :(
― tehresa, Monday, 7 July 2008 15:53 (fifteen years ago) link
i knew it would be you!! are you all sunned out?
― Surmounter, Monday, 7 July 2008 15:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Lol lots of peeling going on! I am scared to return to the city.
― tehresa, Monday, 7 July 2008 15:58 (fifteen years ago) link
PHX airport is tiny; it does have einstein bros. bagels tho... mmmm bagel und hummus
― czn, Monday, 7 July 2008 15:59 (fifteen years ago) link
i spent 7 hours at Pisa airport in crazy heat. that was a lowlight.
― blueski, Monday, 7 July 2008 16:00 (fifteen years ago) link
If you traveled on BA on Virgin, long haul, between 2004 and 2006 you may be eligible for a partial refund:
https://www.airpassengerrefund.co.uk/
― Ed, Monday, 7 July 2008 16:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh shit I was not in bagel terminal :( I would have stocked up for flight. Not ready for foods yet after red eye.
― tehresa, Monday, 7 July 2008 16:05 (fifteen years ago) link
12 hrs in narita is a freakin nightmare
― sunny successor, Monday, 7 July 2008 16:34 (fifteen years ago) link
I can think of worse places, surely there are great japanese foods?
― Ed, Monday, 7 July 2008 16:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Today, Gatwick North, watching the planes taxi by in the rain.
― Ed, Thursday, 10 July 2008 11:45 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm in a prague
― s1ocki, Thursday, 10 July 2008 11:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Well bugger me, it's Johnny Lydon sitting down over there with a bloody mary.
― Ed, Thursday, 10 July 2008 12:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Reading the Daily Mail.
― Ed, Thursday, 10 July 2008 12:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Awash in Wasted Cash - By Bruce Schneier · May 2008 - Draconian obsession with travel security still part of flight
http://www.secprodonline.com/articles/61585/
Column from one of the industry mags sent to my company. Coins an interesting term: "security theater."
― kingfish, Thursday, 10 July 2008 21:27 (fifteen years ago) link
revive
stuck in Dublin airport for three hours.....
anyone got any suggestions of things to do? I could liveblog descriptions everyone who is waiting for this flight.
― Ronan, Sunday, 13 July 2008 21:58 (fifteen years ago) link
hmmm
― s1ocki, Sunday, 13 July 2008 22:15 (fifteen years ago) link
ya ok do that!
make up back stories!
Zurich today. Rather suspicious swiss hip hop on the TVs in the bar here.
― Ed, Thursday, 24 July 2008 17:57 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm in terminal three of Heathrow, waiting to fly to Addis Ababa. Excitement.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Saturday, 26 July 2008 19:06 (fifteen years ago) link
For a megasprawl, DEN is pretty nice. There was a bickering couple in the security line who were co-workers it seemed like. Everything they did was augmented with complaints, meeting unpreparedness, misplaced documents, etc. I wanted to shout "would you guys hurry up and have sex already!" at them.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 31 July 2008 23:32 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm going to be in an airport on Saturday night/Sunday morning, so if as many of you as possible can please also sit in an airport at the same time, I would appreciate it.
― Z S, Friday, 1 August 2008 00:03 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm in hong kong airport.a plane with 'NWA' written on the side just took off.i'm so tired.
― jabba hands, Friday, 1 August 2008 00:31 (fifteen years ago) link
OK, here is the plan for tonight. I have been informed that I probably would have gotten a better flight from an alley bum, but hey, it was (relatively) cheap.
Denver to Las Vegas 9:20pm-10:15pm
Las Vegas to Philadelphia 10:55pm-7:30am
Philadelphia to Ithaca 9:30am-11:15am
I'm going to play $1.50 worth of slots in Las Vegas.
― Z S, Saturday, 2 August 2008 23:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyway, on this thread I will try to check in at each stop and whine about which stewardess was irrationally angry, who kept putting their arm all over MY armrest, which little kid needs a parent that's willing to set stricter boundaries, and whose fartz smelled.
― Z S, Saturday, 2 August 2008 23:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Update:
Get ready for some old fashioned airport complaining.
My flight to Las Vegas was delayed just long enough to ensure that all of the food options would close just as I was walking up them. Since not even a tiny bag of pretzels or nuts is offered to passengers for free anymore, I'm absolutely starving. Maybe I can find a candy machine somewhere? Las Vegas is a fucking dump. And the free airport internet is reaaaaally slow.
Also, my flight to Philadelphia has been delayed to 1 am.
― Z S, Sunday, 3 August 2008 07:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Las Vegas is indeed a huge, glittering dump.
― moley, Sunday, 3 August 2008 07:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Did you ever get out of LV?
I am concerned that next saturday's BOS-ONT with a 40 minute connect in DFW is going to go horribly wrong and flightstats.com doesn't give me much hope.
― Ed, Sunday, 3 August 2008 15:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Sky Harbor now, SeaTac later and then again tomorrow morning, Hartsfield tomorrow afternoon. Sweet sweet upgrade for today's flight.
― Jaq, Sunday, 3 August 2008 20:48 (fifteen years ago) link
woah you are all over the place!
― tehresa, Sunday, 3 August 2008 22:12 (fifteen years ago) link
lol 4 hour delay
― J0rdan S., Monday, 4 August 2008 18:53 (fifteen years ago) link
at chilli's though XD
― J0rdan S., Monday, 4 August 2008 18:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Now that I'm safe and sound at home, and rested, I can relay the most awkward moment of the trip.
I had in my possession a portable blow-up toilet seat, AKA a neck support ring thingy. I had never used it before, but I've also never been able to sleep on a plane before, so I thought it was worth a shot.
As soon as I got on the Las Vegas>Philly plane and took my window seat, I dug it out of my bag and blew it up, tried it on. It was awkward, uncomfortable, and scratched my neck a little. Plus I looked like an injured dog. So I took it off.
A bit later, a husband and wife team sat down beside me. After about 10 minutes, we had not made eye contact or spoken, so in the interest of civility I decided to offer the lady my toilet seat head supporter. She graciously accepted, and then we had a minute of back-and-forth as I made lame jokes about the likelihood of passing out as you blow up the ring, and about how maybe that's how they really are supposed to work. She played with the ring for a minute and then put into her back-of-the-seat pouch.
About an hour into the flight (delayed, so it ended up being 1am-8am or so), it was lights out and everyone was trying to catch some Zs on seats that adjusted from an "L" shape to maybe a 96 degree angle. Apparently everyone else is really good at this skill, but I am not. I was restless and going crazy in the silence. The lady to my left and her husband were fucking KNOCKED OUT - without wearing the ring. I kept looking at the ring I had offered her. Was it worth another shot? But I had clearly given it to her, and said something like "Don't worry, I'll definitely never use it again, it's all yours." At the same time, she was snoring.
So I reached for it and took it back. As I blew it up as quietly as I could, she suddenly woke up. Then her husband woke up. And then there I was, trying to sleep with the ring on, and failing. I'm pretty sure none of the three of us slept again the rest of the night. I kept adjusting and readjusting, and so did she, but I'm pretty sure I heard some quiet talk about how I had the ring. They also may have been talking about my massive B.O., because I hadn't showered in 3 1/2 days by that point.
I have to go on a bike ride now. The rest of the story is about how I struggled with giving it back or keeping it, and also about how it's possible that the lady never even noticed.
― Z S, Monday, 4 August 2008 19:20 (fifteen years ago) link
haha that sounds like pretty standard air travel except i'd never offer the ring even if i didn't want to use it at that moment because hey, you never know. i HATE being locked in by ppl sleeping. this is why i prefer aisle seats, even though it's easier to sleep if you can lie your head against the window.
― tehresa, Monday, 4 August 2008 19:30 (fifteen years ago) link
a portable blow-up toilet seat
Took me a few to parse this in context.
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 4 August 2008 19:37 (fifteen years ago) link
You weren't the only one.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 4 August 2008 19:37 (fifteen years ago) link
i was curious to find out how the blow-up aspect of your ring would turn out!
― homosexual II, Monday, 4 August 2008 19:42 (fifteen years ago) link
http://img364.imageshack.us/img364/3160/lw2toiletoz8.jpg
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 4 August 2008 19:46 (fifteen years ago) link
soooooooo bored
― J0rdan S., Monday, 4 August 2008 20:07 (fifteen years ago) link
sargnt88: penis SmarterChild: Let's talk about something else.
LOL
― Surmounter, Monday, 4 August 2008 20:11 (fifteen years ago) link
My turn again, heathrow 5 -FK although now I have graduated to BA silver Club I get to use the lounge so I have mixed myself a complementary negroni, I have a cheese plate and I am contemplating the awfulness of BA's muzak choice.
― Ed, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 15:18 (fifteen years ago) link
See that's how I want to travel.
― ENBB, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 15:23 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm now in a delayed plane, they are hunting for two missing passengers and will soon be hunting for their bags in the hold. I don't understand this, short of keeling over how do people fail to make it to the gate, clearly they are in the terminal somewhere.
― Ed, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 17:53 (fifteen years ago) link
drunk
― sunny successor, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 19:04 (fifteen years ago) link
mmmm negroni! wait so they have open bar where you make your own drinks?
― tehresa, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 19:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Stuck in ATL for 4 more hours (been here for 2, earlier flights too full to standby for, interviews over early, etc etc etc). No free wifi here, but desks w/ power outlets every 2 or 3 gates. The Crown Club sounds awfully tempting - wonder if they do a day pass.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 20:37 (fifteen years ago) link
HI DERE I R HEATROW AIPRORT AGAIN
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Friday, 8 August 2008 20:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Now in Boston Logan, in the admiral's club which suck compared to the BA exec lounge. No free booze for starters, half the power points don't work and no free wireless.
Yup tza, free bar and mix your own in BA lounges. Us Europeans get some things so right.
― Ed, Saturday, 9 August 2008 20:12 (fifteen years ago) link
heading out to california, via DFW, connection is 40 minutes, I am sceptical that this going to work.
― Ed, Saturday, 9 August 2008 20:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Good luck Ed, hope it all falls right in line. I was never so glad to get home after that ATL flight. You can buy a large bag of peanut M&Ms on Delta now for $2, btw.
― Jaq, Saturday, 9 August 2008 20:50 (fifteen years ago) link
All fell into line and even the bags made it. Was touch an go when someone in Row 21 started 'exhibiting symptoms of a heart attack' as we rolled up to the gate but we dashed down to the other end of terminal B and the ONT flight was slightly delayed. Even our bags made it.
― Ed, Monday, 11 August 2008 18:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Amazing!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 August 2008 18:07 (fifteen years ago) link
There was a Dell Inspiron (lappy) in the trash outside security as I was going thru.
― libcrypt, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 22:52 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't really say I blame whoever tossed it.
Waiting for my flight north from John Wayne. An hour to go. Hmm hmm.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 23:12 (fifteen years ago) link
too bad you'll have to miss enuff z'nuff/pretty boy floyd/bulletboys at the roxy tomorrow.
― get bent, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 23:16 (fifteen years ago) link
I weep!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 23:18 (fifteen years ago) link
ONT again to SEA. Took far to long to find petrol for the rentao car so now everything is cut pretty fine. As it stands still on the shuttle bus from Hertz.
― Ed, Thursday, 14 August 2008 01:00 (fifteen years ago) link
In SFO for a few more minutes before heading to Monterey. Beautiful views of the fog coming in over the hills, and you can see what I see by checking the most recent Flickr shot
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 14 August 2008 02:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Are you in SEA for long Ed?
― Jaq, Thursday, 14 August 2008 03:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Only till saturday, and to be fair in Everett, visiting my girlfriend's family, she has not really been back in 10 years; other wise I would say drink's woo etc.
Had a Dick's hamburger on Broadways last night which apparently was the thing to do and was a pretty good burger.
― Ed, Thursday, 14 August 2008 16:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Did you put tartar sauce on it?
― Laurel, Thursday, 14 August 2008 16:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Mustard, ketchup and those pickled onions and it had a lot of tasty goop on it but no tartar sauce. Good shakes although the chocolate shake at the in n out won by a nose.
― Ed, Thursday, 14 August 2008 16:34 (fifteen years ago) link
i have to go to the airport tonight. I HATE FLYING.
― lauren, Thursday, 14 August 2008 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link
In JFK again for the wee pecker plane to MPLS, way too early as nothing went wrong on my way down here.
― Ed, Saturday, 23 August 2008 21:37 (fifteen years ago) link
I like flying but I like it more if there's turbulence. I have three action movies and Stand by Me to watch on my ipod along with 5 episodes of "No Reservations", which is good because altogether I will be in FOUR DIFFERENT AIRPORTS TOMORROW. Fuck me. Those flights damn well better be on time.
― Laurel, Saturday, 23 August 2008 22:36 (fifteen years ago) link
where you goin, laurel?
― tehresa, Saturday, 23 August 2008 22:51 (fifteen years ago) link
I like flying but I like it more if there's turbulence
Ay-yi-yi, complete opposite with me. I like flying but even some small turbulence = ARGH.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 23 August 2008 22:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Unexcitingly, I'm only going to Michigan! By way of Milwaukee and Kansas City, I guess. Hurrah.
― Laurel, Saturday, 23 August 2008 22:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, I'm about 80% sure I sprained my ankle today (it's been iced and wrapped already), so getting through four airports to make late connections ought to be hilarious. HELLO, SKYCAB?
― Laurel, Saturday, 23 August 2008 22:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Why do people think sucking face on the airtrain at 8:30 am is ok?
― tehresa, Friday, 29 August 2008 12:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Omg what is this foul new perfume that every person in my vicinity seems to be wearing 3 gallons of?
Almost wasn't allowed to check in after kiosk malfunction and cutting it way too close to departure time. Now on plane :) but I really wish there'd been time for coffee :(
― tehresa, Friday, 29 August 2008 13:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Sitting in buffalo for over an hour bc my parents are paranoid about long check-ins. Check in, bag and security took <5 min.
― tehresa, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 16:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Drinky time then.
― Ed, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 16:21 (fifteen years ago) link
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this is such an old person thing!! my parents and my friends parents are always like "well if your flight is at 1:15 you should probably be there by 11 AM" and really the only response is "lol u old"
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 2 September 2008 16:23 (fifteen years ago) link
it also depends on the airport yah know
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 16:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Tru, though even my tight squeeze at JFK last week was under 20 min from entrance to gate.
Also, apparently Josh Grobin is not enough: we now have Josh grobin muzak!
― tehresa, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 16:52 (fifteen years ago) link
― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 22:25 (fifteen years ago) link
i forgot my jacket in my friend's mom's car
― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 22:28 (fifteen years ago) link
i got here three and a half hours early :(
― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 22:29 (fifteen years ago) link
We were in an airport.
― Good luck USA! (ENBB), Tuesday, 4 November 2008 23:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Our flight was delayed by two hours so we checked in and went home since we leave nearby.
Will be in an airport again in about two hours.
― Good luck USA! (ENBB), Tuesday, 4 November 2008 23:27 (fifteen years ago) link
good luck usa
― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Tuesday, 4 November 2008 23:46 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm in Denver airport on layover to St. Louis. It's awesome here. I mean shit, the airport train uses a Johnny Cash/Duane Eddy guitar twang riff for its boarding alarm!
― HI, YOUR BAND! (Mackro Mackro), Sunday, 9 November 2008 20:02 (fifteen years ago) link
only thing not awesome are awkwardly placed power outlets, but at least they have them
― HI, YOUR BAND! (Mackro Mackro), Sunday, 9 November 2008 20:03 (fifteen years ago) link
i wish they used a john denver sample instead.
― ;n_n; (tehresa), Sunday, 9 November 2008 20:09 (fifteen years ago) link
or a denver pyle sample
― mookieproof, Sunday, 9 November 2008 20:11 (fifteen years ago) link
it should be the Green Eyed Lady bassline
― HI, YOUR BAND! (Mackro Mackro), Sunday, 9 November 2008 20:11 (fifteen years ago) link
well EVERYTHING should be the Green Eyed Lady bassline
― HI, YOUR BAND! (Mackro Mackro), Sunday, 9 November 2008 20:12 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm in the san jose airport for the next two hours and the music is awful. there is awesome foodstuff variety though because if i don't like one starbucks, i can just walk like 50 yards down the terminal and go to another one.
― Lingbert, Saturday, 29 November 2008 23:58 (fifteen years ago) link
hey lingbert
― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Sunday, 30 November 2008 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
SJC is like the worst laid-out airport ever.
― ASCII NED (libcrypt), Sunday, 30 November 2008 00:06 (fifteen years ago) link
find airport bar. watch for flight crew members. don't get on same plane as they do.
― very quotatious (tehresa), Sunday, 30 November 2008 00:11 (fifteen years ago) link
does anyone actually enjoy muzak? does it really have the broadest appeal, or is it used more just because people hate it universally? they don't have to worry about offending one certain group when they can just offend everyone at the same time. this will avoid conflict between waiting passengers because people will be united in their disgust.
― Lingbert, Sunday, 30 November 2008 00:13 (fifteen years ago) link
gr8080
You aren't supposed to actually hear muzak, see.
― ASCII NED (libcrypt), Sunday, 30 November 2008 00:14 (fifteen years ago) link
i won't go to a bar because i am working on School Stuff. this is such a wonderful study environment because endless people walking right behind me relaxes me and the muzak is soothing and not irritating
― Lingbert, Sunday, 30 November 2008 00:15 (fifteen years ago) link
oh the bar will def. be soothing!
― very quotatious (tehresa), Sunday, 30 November 2008 00:17 (fifteen years ago) link
i can hear the muzak
― Lingbert, Sunday, 30 November 2008 00:18 (fifteen years ago) link
just when i thought josh groban couldn't get any worse, i heard some josh groban muzak.
― very quotatious (tehresa), Sunday, 30 November 2008 00:25 (fifteen years ago) link
did it make your vomit want to vomit
― Lingbert, Sunday, 30 November 2008 00:44 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm in an airport. and i'm tired! plane's not boarding for another hour.
― Realistic Replicas of Incendiaries (get bent), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 03:48 (fifteen years ago) link
omg jody wake up its time to board
― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 05:12 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm at the airport where the Obamas are about to land!
― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Sunday, 21 December 2008 01:27 (fifteen years ago) link
also i'm delayed 2 hours :(
― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Sunday, 21 December 2008 01:28 (fifteen years ago) link
i wish i was in an airport but they keep bumping my motherf***ing flights.
good for you though, gr8080. good for you. say hi for me.
― rock loop twist down loop twist (tehresa), Sunday, 21 December 2008 01:28 (fifteen years ago) link
he's supposed to be landing right around now but i dont think giving up my power outlet is worth getting and trying to look out the window.
― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Sunday, 21 December 2008 01:38 (fifteen years ago) link
all the other flights say "delayed" and mine says "tentative" :-\\\\\
delta site sez canceled but they have not emailed/called me yet, lga and gsp sites don't show it as canceled. on hold for 30 min. wtf is going on!?
― rock loop twist down loop twist (tehresa), Sunday, 21 December 2008 01:40 (fifteen years ago) link
btw it is the saturday before the popular holiday known as christmas fyi
― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Sunday, 21 December 2008 01:42 (fifteen years ago) link
this has nothing to do with christmas, it's weather.
― rock loop twist down loop twist (tehresa), Sunday, 21 December 2008 01:43 (fifteen years ago) link
doesn't make it any less of an exasperating pain in the ass, though.
― rock loop twist down loop twist (tehresa), Sunday, 21 December 2008 01:44 (fifteen years ago) link
lo-fi music on Delta's hold system sounds like the ancient tunes on Enclave Radio from Fallout.
― Vault Boy Bobblehead - Drinking (kingfish), Monday, 22 December 2008 19:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Delayed!
― thieverend (tehresa), Sunday, 28 December 2008 19:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Some really bad piano playing going on at window's restaurant
― thieverend (tehresa), Sunday, 28 December 2008 19:50 (fifteen years ago) link
are they still playing xmas tunes?
― Lingbert, Sunday, 28 December 2008 20:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Nope.
Pianist is kind of dabbling at vaguely recognizable rep but it's not for Xmas.
These jerks don't respect epiphany!
― thieverend (tehresa), Sunday, 28 December 2008 20:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Small toe-headed boys named mack and Holden attempting to flirt with five year old zoe. Not sure if it's mack or holden's 4th bday.
― thieverend (tehresa), Sunday, 28 December 2008 20:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Zoe can go on the high dive.
― thieverend (tehresa), Sunday, 28 December 2008 20:10 (fifteen years ago) link
She's not even scared.
It's really fun for five year olds.
― thieverend (tehresa), Sunday, 28 December 2008 20:11 (fifteen years ago) link
And now this cuteness is becoming irritating and I will go get coffee.
― thieverend (tehresa), Sunday, 28 December 2008 20:14 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm on a plane!
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 28 December 2008 20:41 (fifteen years ago) link
did u make it with the hot in style chick???
― eman cipation s1ocklamation (max), Sunday, 28 December 2008 20:44 (fifteen years ago) link
What the fucking fuck why is the only coffee vendor in the terminal closed??? I hate the south and it's stupid Sunday bs!!!!
― thieverend (tehresa), Sunday, 28 December 2008 20:46 (fifteen years ago) link
booooooooo :(
― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 28 December 2008 20:49 (fifteen years ago) link
OMB flaming dude with miniature dog you've never been separated from for even a day in 12 years: pls to shut up!!!!
― thieverend (tehresa), Sunday, 28 December 2008 20:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Why does iPod make Omg OMB!
― thieverend (tehresa), Sunday, 28 December 2008 20:53 (fifteen years ago) link
all yr text goes to Office of Mgmt & Budget
― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 28 December 2008 20:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Is that where they are hiding the coffee?
― thieverend (tehresa), Sunday, 28 December 2008 21:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Why aren't we boarding?
― thieverend (tehresa), Sunday, 28 December 2008 21:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Omg queeny dude PLEASE shut up PLEASEHe is harrassing passengers.
― thieverend (tehresa), Sunday, 28 December 2008 21:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Boarding!!!!!
― thieverend (tehresa), Sunday, 28 December 2008 21:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Dear Seth rogan look alike,
Please listen to boarding announcements and do not get on the wrong plane!! We are already late!!
― thieverend (tehresa), Sunday, 28 December 2008 21:38 (fifteen years ago) link
I am in an airplane and taxiing to the proper LAX terminal. Fun fun.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 28 December 2008 22:26 (fifteen years ago) link
I am in a taxi line.
― thieverend (tehresa), Sunday, 28 December 2008 23:49 (fifteen years ago) link
The children are loud.
― thieverend (tehresa), Sunday, 28 December 2008 23:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Jfk flight cancelled and uncancelled. Luckily american are plying me with booze in the lounge.
― Ed, Sunday, 4 January 2009 21:40 (fifteen years ago) link
lolololol hi dere!!!111
― o_O (ken c), Friday, 23 January 2009 19:17 (fifteen years ago) link
i just tripped over a security man with the power cord of my laptop he got well angry!!!
going to hong kong?
― Ed, Friday, 23 January 2009 19:19 (fifteen years ago) link
yus
― o_O (ken c), Friday, 23 January 2009 19:22 (fifteen years ago) link
wow am i that predictable?
i guess it is chinese new year
I don't understand this sentence!
― nabisco, Friday, 23 January 2009 19:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Gung Hay Fat Choy* was painted on the fence this morning, I am in tune with the seasons
*could have been you smell, foolish gwailo for all I know.
― Ed, Friday, 23 January 2009 19:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh, wait, I get it now. For a second I thought you were walking along and tripped over a security man who happened to be holding the power cord of your laptop, and I was like "why did he get mad? He's the one who was stealing your power cord!"
― nabisco, Friday, 23 January 2009 19:24 (fifteen years ago) link
haha yeah you got it.
i'm now in paris airport because air france couldn't even make two flights connect properly and i was at the hotel all night last night.
my first ever night in paris, guys. it was like well romantic.
― o_O (ken c), Saturday, 24 January 2009 11:27 (fifteen years ago) link
o_O
― matt p (Matt P), Saturday, 24 January 2009 11:32 (fifteen years ago) link
also paris charles de gaulle airport maybe one of the worst i've been to. there appears to be no restaurant and i just paid 10 euros for a microwave meal.
― o_O (ken c), Saturday, 24 January 2009 11:36 (fifteen years ago) link
and the hotel wanted to charge me 22 euros for a uk plug adaptor. like lol
― o_O (ken c), Saturday, 24 January 2009 11:37 (fifteen years ago) link
bummer
― matt p (Matt P), Saturday, 24 January 2009 11:37 (fifteen years ago) link
and they wouldn't let me board a later flight than 13:30 so i couldn't even go into paris proper
― o_O (ken c), Saturday, 24 January 2009 11:38 (fifteen years ago) link
i think basically don't fly air france, folks
still, though. I'M IN AN AIRPORT OMG!
― o_O (ken c), Saturday, 24 January 2009 11:40 (fifteen years ago) link
You mean "JE SUIS DANS UN AÉROPORT OMG!"
Or do the French use "OMD" for "oh mon dieu"?
http://www.connollyco.com/discography/omd/best_hi.jpg
― James Mitchell, Saturday, 24 January 2009 16:07 (fifteen years ago) link
PIT arrivals, why so cold.
― Ed, Saturday, 31 January 2009 02:15 (fifteen years ago) link
changji airport in singapore now. now this is an airport
― o_O (ken c), Saturday, 31 January 2009 06:35 (fifteen years ago) link
shame about the boring city it's in
Paris and Singapore - very roundabout way of getting to and from HK?
― Bob Six, Saturday, 31 January 2009 08:33 (fifteen years ago) link
nah singapore was a seperate weekend trip from HK.
― o_O (ken c), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 04:29 (fifteen years ago) link
ugh heathrow
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 08:57 (fifteen years ago) link
ok i'm in LAX now and a dude has just got down on the floor in front of me and started doing press-ups randomly. HOTT. lax >> heathrow already
― lex pretend, Saturday, 7 February 2009 00:05 (fifteen years ago) link
people queueing up ahead of time to board a plane 50 minutes before departure - stupid or sensible?
― o_O (ken c), Sunday, 8 February 2009 14:40 (fifteen years ago) link
now i feel guilty for still be on the internet. mmm maybe i should join the queue? it's moving rapidly
― o_O (ken c), Sunday, 8 February 2009 14:41 (fifteen years ago) link
make them wait for you
― Bob Six, Sunday, 8 February 2009 16:00 (fifteen years ago) link
A Changi they will remove your bags and leave without telling you if you try that.
― Ed, Sunday, 8 February 2009 16:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Shocking abuse of authority, but not uncharacteristic for Singapore - that place makes you want to stick your chewing gum under your seat just to piss them off.
― Bob Six, Sunday, 8 February 2009 16:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Stuck in charlotte NC. Lame.
― I wish I was the royal trux (sunny successor), Sunday, 15 March 2009 21:24 (fifteen years ago) link
In the airport in New Orleans the other day, I saw a man reading this book:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51eoqcMd%2B6L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA240_SH20_OU01_.jpg
― I f'd up the word rear (Z S), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 19:44 (fifteen years ago) link
hahahhhahahaha
i ended up getting to jersey 1am the next morning. YAY (NOT)
― I wish I was the royal trux (sunny successor), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 22:02 (fifteen years ago) link
KCI has free and fast wireless but nowhere to eat. also they've got these nice leather chairs w/ outlets. im hungry tho
― the name's ban. suggest ban (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 21 March 2009 11:33 (fifteen years ago) link
dude in orlando airport sat down at the table i was eating at, he eventually asked me what i was studying in school and after i told him poli sci he told me that he was essentially disappointed in obama bcuz instead of "doing his job saving the boys dying in iraq" he was "filling out a bracket". we had a good convo after that though
― the name's ban. suggest ban (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 21 March 2009 15:32 (fifteen years ago) link
sunscreen is still a security no-no unless it's a teeny bottle, right?
― Past a Diving Jeter (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 March 2009 19:22 (fifteen years ago) link
and in a plastic bag
― Hoos Passansteeno (J0rdan S.), Monday, 23 March 2009 19:34 (fifteen years ago) link
i got on w/ 4 and 5 oz bottles the other day
3 oz is the alleged limit
― Past a Diving Jeter (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 March 2009 19:34 (fifteen years ago) link
such idiocy, goddamn Al Qaeda didn't even kill irony like they were sposed to.
― Past a Diving Jeter (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 March 2009 19:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Security nabbed me for taking a full tube of toothpaste, so I squirted it out into a baggie and got it thru.
― plenty chong (libcrypt), Monday, 23 March 2009 19:36 (fifteen years ago) link
denver is kind of a nice airport. free wireless, outlets everywhere, and finally a fucking Hudson News instead of some shit-ass imitator.
― the table is the table, Saturday, 11 April 2009 00:31 (fifteen years ago) link
haha, once again in the Denver Airport. reasons why this is my favorite airport:
1) smoking lounges with one-drink minimums, so i have an excuse to get a bloody mary
2) the views from those smoking lounges (THE ROCKIES=AWESOME)
3) the cleanliness of the place
4) the reasons mentioned in my last post.
almost makes me want to see what Denver as a city is actually like...!
― the table is the table, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
oh also, if we talking security: the last time i flew, in april, i forgot that i had a miniature box-cutter in my carry-on. when i arrived at my destination and was searching for my smokes, my dad was like: WTF YOU TOOK THAT ON THE PLANE and i was like 'ya what's the big deal lol'
― the table is the table, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link
denver airport is beautiful. i have virtually no interest in denver as a city, but i'm always agreeable to a layover at its airport.
― MRSA Marchant (get bent), Tuesday, 5 May 2009 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link
barcelona - beautiful city; everyone who goes to its airport and those who work there = fucking retarded. waited 1 hr to get through a queue of 6 people in the "fast bag drop" queue. fucking hell. then when i got there it took 5 seconds. retards
― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Tuesday, 2 June 2009 06:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Atlanta, GA. the guy next to me has a very smelly burito.
― Mornington Crescent (Ed), Friday, 19 June 2009 21:18 (fourteen years ago) link
kicking it at yyz. major sunburn on my dome.
― caek, Monday, 22 June 2009 20:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Austin right now, have volunteered to be bumped for money. We'll see how that turns out.
― Mornington Crescent (Ed), Monday, 22 June 2009 21:20 (fourteen years ago) link
lol stansted. best commute ever from finsbury park - got here within an hour and made it to the departure gate last minute like in that tv program. but the flight's delayed.
― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Saturday, 27 June 2009 10:30 (fourteen years ago) link
kicking it at yyz.
who do you think you are casually using iata codes
― The New Beautiful South's New Bassist (King Boy Pato), Saturday, 27 June 2009 11:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I was in an airport yesterday! Unfortunately I couldn't post from there (phone not fancy enough) and also I was only there for about 30 mins, the time it took to find out my flight was cancelled and get resched for today.
I will be in an airport again in a few hours. Hope for better luck.
― But not someone who should be dead anyway (Laurel), Saturday, 27 June 2009 15:30 (fourteen years ago) link
oh my good lord. Århus Tirstrup airport is a complete(ly brilliant) joke! It makes Milton Keynes Coachway look like the SECC
― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Monday, 6 July 2009 19:43 (fourteen years ago) link
ima be in one tomorrow
― Michael tapeworm much talent for the future (s1ocki), Monday, 6 July 2009 20:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Jfk, with a 'seat request', not hopeful.
― Mornington Crescent (Ed), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 01:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Aghagahagah, so the plane I don't necessarily have a seat on has 'maintenance issues'. I should have gone with my instincts and drunk another dirty martini (it was a very dirty dirty martini, all gin and salty olive juice).
― Mornington Crescent (Ed), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 02:06 (fourteen years ago) link
New plane, new delay, still no guranteed seat. I hate delta.
― Mornington Crescent (Ed), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 02:57 (fourteen years ago) link
At least anderson cooper is trolling you tube to keep me entertained with rabbits that walk on two legs.
― Mornington Crescent (Ed), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 02:58 (fourteen years ago) link
tampa is rad. this internet here got me http://www.myarchive.us/richc/SurfinArt_rdc_2007.jpg
― heave imho (J0rdan S.), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Mccallan airport, I hardly knew he
― a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful (dyao), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 18:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Dulles, upgraded to club for the FIRST TIME EVAH! Christ the G&Ts in the lounge are strong!
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 22:02 (fourteen years ago) link
stealing wi-fi from the president's club in EWR, suckers
― a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful (dyao), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 19:55 (fourteen years ago) link
hey Continental! I don't know if you know this by now, but I'm actually not part of the President's Club! see ya
― a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful (dyao), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link
LAS. No stealing necessary, the whole place is wired. For a few fleeting months before a card expires I'm entitled to American lounge access, but there is no American lounge - bastards
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 23:07 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm in an airport, and I'm sleepy
― The Collected Works of Fun Fun (donna rouge), Thursday, 20 August 2009 23:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Columbus, OH (CMH) has free wi-fi.
Sweeeeet.
― everyone stop (dan m), Sunday, 29 November 2009 15:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Flyin Madison (free wi-fi) to Denver (free wi-fi) to PDX (free wi-fi) today..So much e-mail catching up
― "I get through more mojitos.." (bear, bear, bear), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 23:26 (fourteen years ago) link
madison has free wi-fi? must be a holiday thing?
― hey trader joe's! i've got the new steely dan. (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 23:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, totally. Through mid-jan.
― "I get through more mojitos.." (bear, bear, bear), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 23:45 (fourteen years ago) link
o man i have been in this airport for so long - planes parking break is lol frozen
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 17 December 2009 22:28 (fourteen years ago) link
it sounds like it's kinda *icey* where you are
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Thursday, 17 December 2009 22:29 (fourteen years ago) link
omg it is so cold rite now
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 17 December 2009 22:31 (fourteen years ago) link
which 'port
― akira goldsman (s1ocki), Thursday, 17 December 2009 23:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Found a working outlet and a dodgy wifi connection. 5 hours 'til boarding. This is going to be a long night.
― kingfish, Monday, 21 December 2009 08:50 (fourteen years ago) link
I am in an airport. There is a dancing elf.
― tehresa, Monday, 21 December 2009 14:39 (fourteen years ago) link
my dad got stopped trying to get a bloodstained 10" fillet knife on board his flight home from the states. good work auld fella, good work.
― stop grieving, it's only a chicken (darraghmac), Monday, 21 December 2009 14:49 (fourteen years ago) link
― akira goldsman (s1ocki), Thursday, December 17, 2009 6:49 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
it was buuuurlington vt
― ice cr?m, Monday, 21 December 2009 14:51 (fourteen years ago) link
lol @ yr dad! hahaha
there are now some really crappy carolers.
things that are unsettling: "ladies and gentleman we're doing some last minute checks on the aircraft, and it looks like we're going to be delayed about an hour." i feel safe!!
― tehresa, Monday, 21 December 2009 15:28 (fourteen years ago) link
generally it's when they don't check, that you're in trouble! i'd be reassured!
― wanker thread-locker (acoleuthic), Monday, 21 December 2009 15:30 (fourteen years ago) link
who the hell sings this early in the morning? this is annoying.
― tehresa, Monday, 21 December 2009 15:32 (fourteen years ago) link
do you hear what i hear?you mean that crap yr singing?
a family of four is now sitting practically on top of me despite there being lots of seats with more space.
does anybody need to go to the bathroom? I forgot my hat and gloves. small, decaf latte, pls.
hey, at least a plane finally pulled up to the gate! this delay is ruining my 'go right back to sleep on the plane' plan. boo.
― tehresa, Monday, 21 December 2009 16:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Made it thru the night, waiting in Houston for flight to Knoxville. It sucks here.
― kingfish, Monday, 21 December 2009 18:14 (fourteen years ago) link
I am in atlanta!!
― tehresa, Monday, 21 December 2009 22:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Houston Intercontinental airport is nice, spacious, modern, and efficient, in my experience. Though my main other reference is Chicago O'Hare, which is a pitiful, decrepit excuse for an airport.
― kenan, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 14:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Dad got home ok, folks, if a little chastened.
― stop grieving, it's only a chicken (darraghmac), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 15:11 (fourteen years ago) link
does anyone know the drop-off protocol at manchester aiport these days? last time i was there we had to go through a multistory carpark, which was free for stays less than 15 mins?
anyone know if this has all changed yet again?
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Saturday, 26 December 2009 16:40 (fourteen years ago) link
terminal 2 btw
I am in an airport.
― tehresa, Friday, 1 January 2010 21:02 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm in an airport near a man with a phone who sounds like jabba hands except he's not funny or charming with his endless explanations about the fog that is making fools of us all.
― estela, Sunday, 17 January 2010 19:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Haneda airport in Tokyo - like, worst airport ever.
― show me your buccina (ken c), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 00:05 (fourteen years ago) link
why?
― biologically wrong (Z S), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 00:05 (fourteen years ago) link
what's the wi-fi situation like in o hare
― hoosalah (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 15 April 2010 21:56 (fourteen years ago) link
my brother's gf works for american airlines so right now i'm kickin it in the ADMIRALS CLUB on some leather couch and free wi-fi shit -- i feel like bernie madoff up in -- i'm the only person in here under the age of 45, also the only person not wearing an oxford
― hoosalah (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 15 April 2010 21:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Ask someone how long they've been in the club while playing "in da club" on laptop speakers
― biologically wrong (Z S), Thursday, 15 April 2010 21:59 (fourteen years ago) link
my brother's gf's mom btw - my brother is only 17
― hoosalah (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 15 April 2010 22:02 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm in an airport
Why is there no where to buy a macbook power adaptor in Hong Kong airport?
And this wifi is sloooooow
― circle git (S-), Friday, 23 April 2010 15:05 (thirteen years ago) link
there's a fortress in terminal 2 - go there!
― dyªº (dyao), Friday, 23 April 2010 15:06 (thirteen years ago) link
bah, already gone through security and in the plaza-y bit. Is there at least some sort of shitty Irish theme pub here?
― circle git (S-), Friday, 23 April 2010 15:09 (thirteen years ago) link
aww all the electronics stores in terminal 1 are pretty overpriced iirc. you can buy cheap booze at the duty free and uncork it, there are no open container laws.
― dyªº (dyao), Friday, 23 April 2010 15:10 (thirteen years ago) link
hmm I could put it into an empty burger king cup for that extra touch of class.
― circle git (S-), Friday, 23 April 2010 15:17 (thirteen years ago) link
lol if you want a place to buy cheap water and other drug store type goods see if you can find the mannings in that terminal (dunno if it's still there).
― dyªº (dyao), Friday, 23 April 2010 15:19 (thirteen years ago) link
will take a wander. goodbye battery.
― circle git (S-), Friday, 23 April 2010 15:28 (thirteen years ago) link
first time in Oakland intl in a loooooooooooooong time. Seems to have cleaned up a bit. Saw Thomas Keller getting in a town car on my way in.
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 23 April 2010 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Sleeping at Newark tonight. Why no free wifi here? You suck, Newark.
― kate78, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 02:19 (thirteen years ago) link
16 hour flights are extremely awesome
― got you all in ♜ ♔ (dyao), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 01:54 (thirteen years ago) link
hi from burbank airport! i love this airport! and living near it! fuck lax forever!
― DâM-EdnA-FunK (get bent), Thursday, 22 July 2010 22:48 (thirteen years ago) link
berlin's "no more words" is playing in the terminal.
*dances around*
― DâM-EdnA-FunK (get bent), Thursday, 22 July 2010 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Haha nice. The small LA area airports really are the best.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 July 2010 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link
ontario is kinda the pits. but i do love long beach.
― DâM-EdnA-FunK (get bent), Thursday, 22 July 2010 22:50 (thirteen years ago) link
np in terminal: phil collins "take me home"
― DâM-EdnA-FunK (get bent), Thursday, 22 July 2010 22:52 (thirteen years ago) link
There's something about the even smaller ones for personal planes too, like Fullerton's, right next to the train tracks:
http://www.airnav.com/airport/KFUL
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 July 2010 22:53 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm rather fond of VNY:
http://www.lawa.org/welcome_VNY.aspx?id=92
― DâM-EdnA-FunK (get bent), Thursday, 22 July 2010 22:55 (thirteen years ago) link
aw man, one of my favorite memories from being in LA last summer was gazing westward as the sun was setting after getting off at the burbank airport metrolink stop and being like "man, this is SO PRETTY and i gotta come back soon"
― "slapsie" (donna rouge), Thursday, 22 July 2010 22:56 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm in an airport.
Grouchy.
― European Bob (admrl), Sunday, 25 July 2010 05:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah fuck lax forever. But Burbank's expensive, man
― European Bob (admrl), Sunday, 25 July 2010 05:12 (thirteen years ago) link
where u goin bro
― Lexaprotend (Stevie D), Sunday, 25 July 2010 05:58 (thirteen years ago) link
To Cincy then Indy then Louisville. I don't know the correct abbreviation of Louisville.
― European Bob (admrl), Sunday, 25 July 2010 06:01 (thirteen years ago) link
L'ville
― Lexaprotend (Stevie D), Sunday, 25 July 2010 13:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Haneda airport in Tokyo - like, worst airport ever.― show me your buccina (ken c), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 00:05 (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalinkwhy?― biologically wrong (Z S), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 00:05 (3 months ago) Bookmark
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― biologically wrong (Z S), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 00:05 (3 months ago) Bookmark
THERE WAS NOTHING THERE!!!!!!!!!
Also they have a terminal 1, terminal 2, and an 'international' terminal otherwise known as "terminal I" which is clearly just called that to intentionally misdirect people?????
― voodoo sailor (ken c), Monday, 26 July 2010 01:48 (thirteen years ago) link
American Airlines is starting flights from NYC JFK to Tokyo Haneda, and I can't wait.... Anything is better than that fucking 2 hour bus ride from Narita to Shibuya....
― phil-two, Monday, 26 July 2010 02:51 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm in a jfk jetblue terminal. for some reason i just spent $30 on a mushroom/fontina/ham pizza and a double maker's & ginger at one of the hoity-toity new restaurants.
― DâM-EdnA-FunK (get bent), Monday, 26 July 2010 17:48 (thirteen years ago) link
that terminal is so fancy
― horseshoe, Monday, 26 July 2010 17:50 (thirteen years ago) link
at least the pizza was good -- as was the double (*hic*)
― DâM-EdnA-FunK (get bent), Monday, 26 July 2010 17:54 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm in a train station
and i'm itchy
― kim cardassian (s1ocki), Monday, 26 July 2010 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link
do you hafta pay for WiFi in evry airport? criminal.
really needed that strawb parfait in ATL Starbucks.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 18:43 (thirteen years ago) link
it is like a boy scout refugee camp in this piece
― tehresa, Friday, 6 August 2010 00:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I've been eating my way around the state for 5+ days and the hottest green chile was in my omelette in the airport just now.
Best vacation ever, sorry it's almost over.
― Donovan Dagnabbit (WmC), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 13:27 (thirteen years ago) link
6 1/2 hours in Paphos airport, like the set of THX, this illusion augmented by red-faced, Hackett wearing, cockney Donald Pleasance motherfuckers waddling around like lost children.
― disastrous sixth series (MaresNest), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link
have a flight tonight; torrential downpours due....
Not bringing the laptop.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 September 2010 11:51 (thirteen years ago) link
BUR might have the Talking Heads as background music, but LGB is still my choice for sleepy vintage Southern California airports.
The people sitting one row over are talking about atheism vs. deism, urban planning, and Ursula K. LeGuin.
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Saturday, 20 November 2010 04:46 (thirteen years ago) link
i did the backscatter thing
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 13:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Waiting in stansted to go to glasgow where I'll then travel to Stranraer with my sister, her husband and my nephews and get the ferry to Belfast. That'll be on Thursday, my flight to Dublin from London was cancelled today. Awful transport hassle but at least I have a way home, in theory!
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 20:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, my friend's flight to London was cancelled yesterday and they weren't offering to re-book it until after Christmas, so she said fuck it and cancelled and bought ANOTHER ticket on another airline. Hopes to be leaving in a few days.
― Jesus Christ, the apple tree! (Laurel), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 20:56 (thirteen years ago) link
I'll be in airport in a couple hours
― a verbatim quote from AdamRL! (admrl), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
I was up at 5 for work today and yday so am fucking dying. Ugh.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 21:06 (thirteen years ago) link
uh im in florida airport and my flight is cancelled to dublin
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 21:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Cute pregnant lady was sitting a row ahead and across from me on the flight here, and was totally trying to hide the wallpaper on her laptop that she set up for her son to watch "Toy Story 3."
The wallpaper was, of course, a huge photo of a greenhouse filled with marijuana plants.
I declined to comment.
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 21:49 (thirteen years ago) link
On a _very_ related note, check out the comments for Playmobil's Security Check Point set.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41G9WA5NRDL.jpg
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 21:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Somehow managed to get from Stansted to Dublin yesterday before everything went haywire. Getting back home from Dublin Airport was an adventure though.
― seandalai, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 22:00 (thirteen years ago) link
― plax (ico), Tuesday, December 21, 2010 1:38 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark
oh shit, looks like yr just gonna have to stay in america then
― where they douthat at (donna rouge), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 22:08 (thirteen years ago) link
yah lol
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 22:10 (thirteen years ago) link
stansted was really peaceful and nice yday, most flights went from there i think, tho i heard belfast had a prob.
i can't get on my sister's ferry from cairnryan to larne but i booked one about an hour later from stranraer to belfast. hopefully meet sis and her family in belfast and head down to dublin with them. could have been a lot worse overall, though missed a big meetup with loads of old friends in dublin tonight.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
the auld fella's sitting on the runway in dublin waitin for the de-icing truck to get around to them- current estimate two hours.
― all i gotta do is akh nachivly (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 15:12 (thirteen years ago) link
oh god oh god oh god I'm flying ON CHRISTMAS DAY, and I am hoping to jiggers that none of the following are snowed in: NYC, Milwaukee, GRR, or any other airport from which any of my planes are coming.
― Jesus Christ, the apple tree! (Laurel), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Chillin in the airport waitin on some lunch, tbh.
― mmmm... yung hummus (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
The full body scanners are OFF, but some ppl are still getting patdowns?
― mmmm... yung hummus (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
you just went to the airport for lunch?
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Abandoned tweet:
"The best revenge against full body scanners is having a ginormous penis. I'll let you know how that goes!!!"
― mmmm... yung hummus (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
yah i considered tryna think sexxy thoughts first but then felt too depressed by it
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:32 (thirteen years ago) link
cant find my way out of the airport hotel ind complex to see orlando proper
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:39 (thirteen years ago) link
There's a proper Orlando?
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:42 (thirteen years ago) link
well im hoping i can take pictures of something
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:51 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm in an airport allll day cause my ride here = 5.5 hours prior to flight.
― tehresa, Friday, 24 December 2010 17:48 (thirteen years ago) link
*tumbleweeds*at least it's not crazy!
― tehresa, Friday, 24 December 2010 17:49 (thirteen years ago) link
2 more hours til boarding...zzzzzzzzzz
― tehresa, Friday, 24 December 2010 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
are you drunk yet
― J0rdan S., Friday, 24 December 2010 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
DFW. Tequila and ice cream for breakfast.
― kate78, Monday, 28 February 2011 13:49 (thirteen years ago) link
YUL. Bretzels enrobés de chocolat pour le petit déjeuner.
― kate78, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 13:38 (thirteen years ago) link
this is it
― british sb power (dayo), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 02:43 (twelve years ago) link
hk -> jersey?
― iatee, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 02:45 (twelve years ago) link
I fly out of Mobile in like 11 hours, and fly to Prince George in 30
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 02:46 (twelve years ago) link
hk-> shanghai...pause... -> JFK
xp
― british sb power (dayo), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 02:49 (twelve years ago) link
will you be in the environs for a while? we should hang out sometime
― iatee, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 02:53 (twelve years ago) link
oh yeah! I'll contact you when I head up to NYC
― british sb power (dayo), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 02:59 (twelve years ago) link
2nd or 3rd delay thanks to storms in Chicago. Just trying to get back home to Portland.
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Friday, 1 July 2011 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
yeah chicago is pretty much the worst place in terms of weather to put a major national aviation hub right?
― goole+ (dayo), Friday, 1 July 2011 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
I'm outside an airport! I went through security to get coffee and back out to smoke. Two hours early for flight.
― it's not that print journalists don't have a sense of humour, it's just (Laurel), Friday, 5 August 2011 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
Very important to be early. I have a bad track record with making it onto the plane.
― it's not that print journalists don't have a sense of humour, it's just (Laurel), Friday, 5 August 2011 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
I am still in an airport.
― it's not that print journalists don't have a sense of humour, it's just (Laurel), Saturday, 6 August 2011 02:15 (twelve years ago) link
Huh, Laurel smokes
― Patrice Leclerc Delacroix Poussin (admrl), Saturday, 6 August 2011 03:01 (twelve years ago) link
I...don't understand. Is that a joke? I'm too tired to tell?
― it's not that print journalists don't have a sense of humour, it's just (Laurel), Saturday, 6 August 2011 03:13 (twelve years ago) link
No
― Patrice Leclerc Delacroix Poussin (admrl), Saturday, 6 August 2011 08:53 (twelve years ago) link
Have you escaped airport?
― ljubljana, Saturday, 6 August 2011 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
At YYZ, they ask that you take a survey:
"Which improvement would you most like to see at this airport? 1. McDonalds. 2. Free Parking Fridays. 3. Kids Zone."
― classic albums live! (Ówen P.), Sunday, 7 August 2011 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
(I went with Kids Zone.)
― classic albums live! (Ówen P.), Sunday, 7 August 2011 14:32 (twelve years ago) link
I escaped the Cincinnati airport about 10 hrs after entering it. Delta did put us in hotels, but not until we'd been waiting for over 4 hours.
― it's not that print journalists don't have a sense of humour, it's just (Laurel), Sunday, 7 August 2011 14:34 (twelve years ago) link
For someone who isn't really a fan of flying, I LOVE airports. Hi. I'm in an airport.
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Thursday, 11 August 2011 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
i got a flat tyre on the drive in, didn't make it to el paso until late o' clock, not enough sleep, now my flight out is delayed and i have like 8 minutes to make my connection at o' hare. what a couple of days!
also i forgot my book by the swimming pool. admittedly it was so hot it had fallen to bits, but i only had ~50 pages to go :-(
― caek, Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
also CNN is terrible!
― caek, Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
I was in an airport this morning, had already checked in online, didn't need to check bags, just wanted to print the boarding pass. Looking around for the self-service kiosks you're meant to be able to use and they were at the desks, kind of underneath, exactly where people are checking in etc, and at the end of the huge queue. Turns out it's ok to use them but it's not clear and really weird to just sail past the queue and push aside the people who're already at the desks, just to print the boarding pass.
― kinder, Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
Haven't been in San Jose Airport for almost twenty years and already it's my new favorite airport, period.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 August 2011 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
ugh, but you're IN SAN JOSE. you might as well say, "i'm at the airport in assholeville."
― sold my soul to satin (the table is the table), Friday, 19 August 2011 16:52 (twelve years ago) link
that said, i'm in the oakland airport. just finished my pre-flight beer. ready to sit back with the NYT and read about the quiddities and agonies.
this is U&K
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 19 August 2011 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
i'm about to go to san jose airport like 3 hours early because i have nothing better to do
― a fan of the juiceman (tpp), Friday, 19 August 2011 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
I'M IN AN AIRPORT
free wi-fi and beers!
― seasoning sauce all over me (tpp), Friday, 19 August 2011 22:57 (twelve years ago) link
I had to show my passport/boarding pass to no less than 5 people to board my flight at LHR...yet somehow it was a very efficient, respectful process that didn't make me feel like crying.
― kate78, Thursday, 25 August 2011 13:54 (twelve years ago) link
i get to Nashville almost 2 hours late for my connecting flight because of bad weather in Philly, and the next flight i can get is (gasp) at 5:35 pm, meaning i would get into Oakand at 11 pm, and so i just went calmly and politely to the service desk and asked whether there was any way i could get to any airport in the Bay Area before 9 pm....and lo, the woman said, "this flight to my left is going to Denver, and then to San Francisco," and within 5 minutes i was on a moving plane. i tell ya, sometimes shit really works out okay! i'm now in my favorite airport in the US, drinking beer and smoking cigarettes, and molesting this free wi-fi.
― sold my soul to satin (the table is the table), Thursday, 25 August 2011 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
Having arrived in San Jose when I did, I then immediately left for Monterey and Carmel.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 25 August 2011 22:27 (twelve years ago) link
good!
― sold my soul to satin (the table is the table), Thursday, 25 August 2011 23:02 (twelve years ago) link
In Montreal, watching the first rains from Irene sweep in from the comfort of the airport hotel bar.
― kate78, Sunday, 28 August 2011 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
...waiting for tza's plane.
― Jaq, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 23:36 (twelve years ago) link
Taxiing to gate! See you soon!!!
― tehresa, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 23:45 (twelve years ago) link
At Midway, walking feverishly up and down the moving walkways because I am bored and overcaffeinated
― the *facepalm* at the trend of the hivemind (donna rouge), Thursday, 8 September 2011 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
Long beach is officially the shittiest airport I've ever set foot in.
I think there is about 500 ft btw security and the exit, with a gate in between!
― tehresa, Monday, 12 September 2011 03:37 (twelve years ago) link
how could long beach be the shittiest when la guardia exists??
― debenture banhart (get bent), Monday, 12 September 2011 03:39 (twelve years ago) link
Oh man, lga is so much nicer!
― tehresa, Monday, 12 September 2011 09:05 (twelve years ago) link
i'm in an airport. and i have a headache :(
― tehresa, Thursday, 20 October 2011 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
I was in an airport, CDG, and that was the closest I've come to missing a flight ever (delayed connecting train). Amazed my luggage made it with me.
― ljubljana, Thursday, 20 October 2011 22:47 (twelve years ago) link
i'm in an airportand the lady next to me just said "i know which dog i can trust."
― carstens, Monday, 24 October 2011 14:40 (twelve years ago) link
The sniffer dog?
― ljubljana, Monday, 24 October 2011 23:32 (twelve years ago) link
At Denver. Someone is playing screams and spooky sound effects over the PA at random intervals today.
― Primm Slim, Robot Sheriff (kingfish), Monday, 31 October 2011 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
At BOS having an small mid-life crisis (for grad school thread later)
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
Flew home from Houston thru Pheonix today with the stomach flu. Not a good time. Destroyed one toilet stall at IAH, tho.
― Put another Juggle in, in the Juggalodeon (kingfish), Friday, 11 November 2011 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
i am in an airport, and i just saw larry wilmore from the daily show in the men's room
― toandos, Friday, 20 January 2012 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
At Heathrow heading for St Petersburg via Helsinki. Temptation to try and sneak on to a flight to Miami instead is enormous.
― Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Friday, 27 January 2012 06:57 (twelve years ago) link
Miss St.P, lived there for a while, returned every year for years. OK, maybe not best time of year to visit but...
― ljubljana, Friday, 27 January 2012 11:26 (twelve years ago) link
Charlotte en route to dc. Feelin smug cuz I chose healthy veggie tray iinstead of Stock Car Cafe.
― andrew m., Sunday, 11 March 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
Update. Celery in teeth whole way. Karma=bitch
― andrew m., Sunday, 11 March 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
i'm in an airport. they're playing the police's "man in a suitcase" over the PA.
― the kids of boris midney high (get bent), Thursday, 22 March 2012 23:30 (twelve years ago) link
my chauffeur boyfriend dropped me off several hours early, and jetblue won't let me check my bag until 7 (it's 4:30 now). wondering if it's a security measure or if they just don't want to run the risk of losing the bag. either way, i'm sitting in the waiting area, lamenting the lack of outlets.
― the kids of boris midney high (get bent), Thursday, 22 March 2012 23:33 (twelve years ago) link
now they're playing heaven 17's "penthouse and pavement"! hippest airport ever.
― the kids of boris midney high (get bent), Thursday, 22 March 2012 23:47 (twelve years ago) link
<3333 burbank/bob hope
― althea and (donna rouge), Friday, 23 March 2012 00:04 (twelve years ago) link
first songs i heard in the terminal when i landed here were "black coffee in bed", followed by "everybody" by madonna
― althea and (donna rouge), Friday, 23 March 2012 00:06 (twelve years ago) link
np: a fine young cannibals song i don't know
― the kids of boris midney high (get bent), Friday, 23 March 2012 00:08 (twelve years ago) link
oh oh oh wait, it's them covering the buzzcocks' "ever fallen in love"!
― the kids of boris midney high (get bent), Friday, 23 March 2012 00:09 (twelve years ago) link
jeez, this is a hip airport
np: english beat, "i confess"
― the kids of boris midney high (get bent), Friday, 23 March 2012 00:15 (twelve years ago) link
Flying Southwest for the first time ever. Slightly worried, since my seat numbering thing is a fairly high number on the second tier and I dont sit well in the bitch seat.
Fortunately, I loaded up on Batmang at the library on the way here, so's I got enough to read on the way to Denver.
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Friday, 23 March 2012 00:27 (twelve years ago) link
first songs i heard in the terminal when i landed here were "black coffee in bed"
np: squeeze's "another nail in my heart"
(liveblogging here so i don't get unfollowed en masse on twitter)
― the kids of boris midney high (get bent), Friday, 23 March 2012 00:29 (twelve years ago) link
is "bang on the drum all day" a good song? i always associate it with z100 on friday afternoons (see also "take this job and shove it").
― the kids of boris midney high (get bent), Friday, 23 March 2012 00:37 (twelve years ago) link
haha i totally have those same associations
― althea and (donna rouge), Friday, 23 March 2012 01:08 (twelve years ago) link
i'm still in the airport. np: "who's zoomin' who"!
― the kids of boris midney high (get bent), Friday, 23 March 2012 01:34 (twelve years ago) link
np, speaking of aretha: scritti politti, "wood beez (pray like aretha franklin)"!
(gonna be here until 9)
― the kids of boris midney high (get bent), Friday, 23 March 2012 02:34 (twelve years ago) link
Man, sitting around for a few hours at Santa Ana/John Wayne was posh bad weirdness. Surrounded by Orange County types. No wonder PKD wrote disparagingly of that place.
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Friday, 23 March 2012 03:14 (twelve years ago) link
― So Efficient! (doo dah), Friday, 23 March 2012 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
I'm in an airport in boston
I think NECN just interviewed me on camera about electronic use on takeoffs/landings. I guess the Port Authority of NY is going to start fining people, so a reporter & a camera guy are here getting the vox pop.
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
i will be in an airport (JFK -> BUR) in a couple hours! as usual, i'm dreading the JFK experience.
― ralphs vons williams (get bent), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
the jfk jetblue terminal is playing "meeting in the ladies' room"! #livebloggingtheairport
― ralphs vons williams (get bent), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
I'm flying virgin for the first time today. I'm in an airport.
― tehresa, Saturday, 7 April 2012 13:22 (twelve years ago) link
It seems like there's a big school group on my flight. Maybe I should have chosen the main cabin select upgrade...
― tehresa, Saturday, 7 April 2012 13:37 (twelve years ago) link
bye new york! i'm in an airport.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 02:14 (twelve years ago) link
Good-bye to you and your Louboutins and your endless pretty dresses and your hilarious conversation! Come again soon.
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 02:16 (twelve years ago) link
bye horseshoe, I will see you on the internet
― iatee, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 02:16 (twelve years ago) link
<3
(guys my louboutins were a ridiculous deal i don't go around buying louboutins normally it was an enchanted visit)
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 02:17 (twelve years ago) link
I don't even know what those are
― iatee, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 02:18 (twelve years ago) link
Louboutins!
Where does Horseshoe live normally??
― Shitschnitzel (admrl), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 02:20 (twelve years ago) link
fabled buffalo
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 02:21 (twelve years ago) link
i am in an airportand it is quietthere is an aquarium
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 04:54 (twelve years ago) link
a big onebecause this is vancouver international, possibly the prettiest, quietest airport in north america
i think the carpet makes it quiet tbh
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 04:55 (twelve years ago) link
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7259/6920622468_3d41e7e121.jpg
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 05:03 (twelve years ago) link
spent weeks of my life in the vancouver airport and never noticed an aquarium
― dylannn, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 11:43 (twelve years ago) link
silhouette of the Sears Tower in the distance, hello ORD once again
― Euler, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 13:39 (twelve years ago) link
I think the aquarium is pretty new tho! It's in international terminal, D gates area.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 14:20 (twelve years ago) link
I am now in a big city not an airport. And I am sleep deprived.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
i'm in an airport and every time I load a thread with images the images all come up as the AÉROPORTS DE MONTRÉAL logo which was p startling at first
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Sunday, 22 April 2012 15:40 (eleven years ago) link
i tried out the new scatter full body x-ray doohickey this morning. i was told to put my hands in the air and i said 'like i just don't care' and the TSA agent said 'i've heard that a few times before' and scowled at me. you'd think he might vary his syntax.
― fka snush (remy bean), Monday, 23 April 2012 11:42 (eleven years ago) link
So sleepy.
― tehresa, Friday, 11 May 2012 12:00 (eleven years ago) link
Woman next to me is reading 50 shades of grey
― tehresa, Friday, 11 May 2012 12:20 (eleven years ago) link
Airport y'all.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Thursday, 12 July 2012 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
spare 12 bucks for a sandwich, buddy?
― i read like cookie monster eats (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 July 2012 22:15 (eleven years ago) link
hey enbb did you see the picture kathyrn posted on FB, a press clipping of rupert at the front of a huggy bear show?
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 12 July 2012 22:16 (eleven years ago) link
No! Omg Rupes and huggybear! I will look now.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Thursday, 12 July 2012 22:19 (eleven years ago) link
the caption was mean
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 12 July 2012 22:19 (eleven years ago) link
Hahaha awesome. His hair!
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Thursday, 12 July 2012 22:20 (eleven years ago) link
Aw poor Rupert.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Thursday, 12 July 2012 22:21 (eleven years ago) link
― carly rae (flopson), Sunday, 15 July 2012 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
http://la.guestofaguest.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/gawkerdrunk.jpg
― carly rae (flopson), Sunday, 15 July 2012 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
I'm in an airport right now, and pretty fidgety, as usual. Human beings weren't made to be crammed into a pressurized cigar tube, lit, and hurtled through the freezing troposphere strapped to a burning fizzlestick. It just doesn't seem right or natural.
It doesn't help my fear of flying that I've chewed the fat with my nephew Marvin, an airline mechanic and conspiracy theorist. Marvin says that there's a lot goes on in aviation that just never gets reported, because if it did nobody would ever fly at all. For instance, did you know that only about one flight in three ever reaches its destination? The rest all crash. They keep it covered up, of course. It's not hard in this Facebook and Twitter world where people just care about kittens. The wreckage, when it's found, just gets recycled for spare parts.
Of course, if there were kittens on the missing flights there'd have to be an investigation, in this Facebook and Twitter world. That's why, if you try to send your kitty on a plane, there's a lot of paperwork to fill out, official "lolcats" pictures to be taken, and a mysterious delay at the airport. They call it "quarantine", but Marvin says it's because air traffic control is consulting animal entrails, bird movements on the runway, and gypsy fortune-tellers in order to determine which flights will actually reach their destinations. They don't want an investigation, you see. Then it would all come out.
Not that I want to say anything to worry any of you good people in airports. A lot of flights do eventually get through, with very few fatalities. And flying is still safer than driving into oncoming traffic up the wrong side of the New Jersey turnpike in a raging blizzard with heavy fog at 110mph. Statistically speaking.
That's what Marvin says, and I trust him. I have to; he's the man who sellotapes all the broken electrical wiring that runs through the fuel tanks.
― Grampsy, Monday, 16 July 2012 01:36 (eleven years ago) link
Was at the airport last week to visit my long-distance friend/lover/relationshipTBD whilst travelling though Dulles on her way to Manchester-Boston airport (which has nothing to do with Boston which is 70 miles south but added its name recently to make it more popular). We were hoping for an extended layover that would allow us to spend the nite together; no such luck so we enjoyed two overpriced restaurant meals and parted ways.
― Lee626, Monday, 16 July 2012 07:38 (eleven years ago) link
Flying to Quebec City in about 7 hours
― Steam Sale Jonesin' (kingfish), Monday, 16 July 2012 07:45 (eleven years ago) link
Munching on Swedish Fish in Dulles.
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 00:54 (eleven years ago) link
Making a domestic -> international connection in Minneapolis in half an hour is madness, right? Booked a trip a couple of months ago and the flight schedules have now changed leaving us with 35 minutes (presume even if I make it, my bags won't...). I should be good to be rebooked, yes? There's no way that's a valid connection time.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 11:39 (eleven years ago) link
At least with pro football now on, they have all the screens set to that and not fuckin' CNN/HLN, and for that, I'm thankful.
― Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Sunday, 9 September 2012 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
I'm going to the airport in less than 24 hours and I'm kind of terrified since today I already feel dead tired and sore and now have to get up at 5AM and schlep a frankly ungodly heavy volume of luggage through escalatorless/liftless tube stations and then pray my bags don't exceed the weight limit, and then move home from London ;_;
Ah well.
― formerly EDB (ed.b), Sunday, 9 September 2012 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
EDB, your homeland awaits you with really nice weather!
― ljubljana, Sunday, 9 September 2012 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
Well, I am leaving your homeland amidst an outright bizarre rash of excellent weather too!
― formerly EDB (ed.b), Monday, 10 September 2012 00:34 (eleven years ago) link
Hello Athens airport it is 6am and I will be continuing to enjoy your pleasures for another two hours.
― atari era stylings of (seandalai), Friday, 14 September 2012 02:48 (eleven years ago) link
I'm in the delta Sky Club in Atlanta
plusses: drinking free beerminuses: there is an insufferable british twat braying at the bar causing me to work on my fake italian identity
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 21 September 2012 00:08 (eleven years ago) link
Now in Seoul drinking Cheongha and eatingn tasty pickled things
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 07:32 (eleven years ago) link
Two more hours in Ohare thanks to at least two delays.
Wouldn't be so bad if I was in the terminal with available power outlets
― the max in the high castle (kingfish), Thursday, 22 November 2012 00:31 (eleven years ago) link
i'm in el paso. later on i will be in phoenix and philadelphia and munich. i will NOT repeat NOT be in o'hare.
― caek, Saturday, 15 December 2012 12:36 (eleven years ago) link
philadelphia
please visit our lovely sbarro
― back in judy's tenuta (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Saturday, 15 December 2012 14:16 (eleven years ago) link
I'm in Phoenix. I have like a 50m connection in Philadelphia. Might be posting back here for relevant things to do with 24h stuck there.
― caek, Saturday, 15 December 2012 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
philly international was actually not that bad the last time I went, think they did some renos
― 乒乓, Saturday, 15 December 2012 15:05 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i haven't been since...god probably 2005? it was pretty bleak between 1999 and 2005, aka the years i flew the most ever.
― back in judy's tenuta (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Saturday, 15 December 2012 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
I have not found bad santa yet in phx
― caek, Saturday, 15 December 2012 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
i'm in another airport
― caek, Saturday, 15 December 2012 21:55 (eleven years ago) link
i will watch the skies for you
― back in judy's tenuta (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Saturday, 15 December 2012 22:26 (eleven years ago) link
hooray
― mookieproof, Thursday, 27 December 2012 10:13 (eleven years ago) link
kinda feel like our civilization has matured to the point where it doesnt require such thorough warnings about the moving walkway coming to an end
― mookieproof, Thursday, 27 December 2012 10:28 (eleven years ago) link
Newcastle, flying to Heathrow
― Mark G, Sunday, 17 February 2013 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
dubai, pretty fancy but really they coudve made it fancier, embarrassed for u dubai
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 22:36 (eleven years ago) link
I mean transferred in Dallas a couple years ago and they had Richard sera pieces right in that shit, feel like that's the minimum standard Dubai should hold itself to
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 22:38 (eleven years ago) link
http://m.nbcnews.com/travel/itineraries/despite-criticism-denver-airports-devil-horse-sculpture-likely-stay-1C8543778
― The New Jack Mormons! (kingfish), Monday, 4 March 2013 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
For reference, I was rebooked and then my revised flight was cancelled when I was at McCarran so they put me back on this half-hour connection route and I made it but my bags didn't. Moral of the story - insanely short connection times are totally doable. But not recommended.
― ailsa, Monday, 4 March 2013 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
These places are worse than death. At least I have benzos
― my god i only have 2 useless beyblade (silby), Friday, 29 March 2013 04:39 (eleven years ago) link
and us
― markers, Friday, 29 March 2013 04:49 (eleven years ago) link
I made it on to the plane but no wifi on this leg I think so adieu fair markers
― my god i only have 2 useless beyblade (silby), Friday, 29 March 2013 04:51 (eleven years ago) link
pro'hare tips for when you have an 9hr layover but don't have the energy to leave the airport:
have swim trunks with you. you can get a day pass to the airport hilton fitness centre (between the terminals, no shuttle bus) for $15, and then spend 3 hrs swimming and in the deserted steam room and sauna. you could get your money's worth here with a 2h layover, even allowing for walking/security time.
you can get a united club pass on ebay for about $10, and then get v drunk for no extra charge except tips.
― caek, Monday, 15 April 2013 00:55 (eleven years ago) link
I'm in O'Hare so much these days...good tips!
love the Frontera torta outpost...the loaded guacamole is seriously the best, like I look forward to being in O'Hare now
― Euler, Monday, 15 April 2013 01:15 (eleven years ago) link
Where is that?
― caek, Monday, 15 April 2013 11:20 (eleven years ago) link
I go to the one near K4 in Terminal 1 because I mostly fly American, maybe there's one near the united terminal too
― Euler, Monday, 15 April 2013 12:54 (eleven years ago) link
i know the one in the united terminal! never eaten there. next time.
― caek, Monday, 15 April 2013 13:15 (eleven years ago) link
Stuck in Kansas City. Have to somehow get to OKC tomorrow. Flight has now been delayed enough that even if I get to Dallas tonight, there's probably no way I'd be able to leave in time.
― Hockey Drunk (kingfish), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 01:44 (eleven years ago) link
KCI is mellow but there's nowhere to eat & you're 20 miles from the city. sucks
― Euler, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 01:48 (eleven years ago) link
Made it to Dallas, got stuck here. They gave me a cot.
http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/national/american-airlines-halts-flights-passengers-stuck-due-to-computer-outage
― Hockey Drunk (kingfish), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 05:05 (eleven years ago) link
I'm in an airport. WTF Gatwick you don't have any TVs? I HAVE TENNIS TO BE WATCHING.
― Fanois och Alexander (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 7 July 2013 14:30 (ten years ago) link
i hate american airports that have huge tvs showing fox news everywhere, literally the one thing that could make me MORE anxious in an airport
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Monday, 8 July 2013 15:09 (ten years ago) link
I usually see HLN or CNN in airports, I think I remember there being a special airport version of CNN in the past but that doesn't really make sense.
― El tres de 乒乓 de 1808 (silby), Monday, 8 July 2013 20:07 (ten years ago) link
only reports events that occur in airports
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 01:11 (ten years ago) link
I'm in an airport and it turned out fellow longtime ILXor Lukas was right in front of me in the security line. A strange coincidence.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 August 2013 00:16 (ten years ago) link
Ant exit??? Or a different one?
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Friday, 30 August 2013 02:06 (ten years ago) link
duty free is a horrifying place
― VENIET IMBER (imago), Thursday, 19 December 2013 17:26 (ten years ago) link
just want to get on the plane
― VENIET IMBER (imago), Thursday, 19 December 2013 17:27 (ten years ago) link
'sunglass hut' only exists because people are morons
the demons consume me
― VENIET IMBER (imago), Thursday, 19 December 2013 17:28 (ten years ago) link
I'm in JFK and I'm stuuuuuuuck and I was on standby and then they cancelled that flight too and then they reinstated it and I lost my place in the line and I complained and now I am 'status Y' which is good, apparently. But I still think I won't get out of here till tomorrow. There's a Shake Shack, though.
― ljubljana, Monday, 6 January 2014 22:20 (ten years ago) link
I'm in my third airport today, and I've still got two more to go.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 6 January 2014 22:34 (ten years ago) link
fuuuuuck
you guys that blows. stay sane!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 00:10 (ten years ago) link
i was supposed to fly today, but jetblue canceled my flight.
so instead of jfk to bur on monday, it's lga to lax on tuesday, on a different airline. at least i'm not sleeping at the airport tonight.
jetblue's customer service through all this has been really poor. i used to be a fan, but now i dunno.
― sext of light (get bent), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 01:17 (ten years ago) link
Gonna visit 2+ airports tomorrow. Stoked to get stranded
― 龜, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 01:19 (ten years ago) link
ljub, you're on my train line!! If you had two hours to spare, you should come to my house!
― Horreur! What are this disassociated lumps of (in orbit), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 01:28 (ten years ago) link
Do you have anywhere to stay?
My house is a mess but I have an air mattress here somewhere.
― Horreur! What are this disassociated lumps of (in orbit), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 01:29 (ten years ago) link
It will possibly suck getting a big suitcase up the subway station stairs, but if you want to lie down somewhere warm it may be worth it.
― Horreur! What are this disassociated lumps of (in orbit), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 01:33 (ten years ago) link
i am going to some airports tomorrow *despair*
― caek, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 03:12 (ten years ago) link
I have to fly through Chicago with a one-hour changeover tomorrow. There's a direct flight which skips weather, that they won't let me change to without paying $900.
― giant faps are what you take, wanking on the moon (sic), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 04:44 (ten years ago) link
Make friends with some chilxors asap is my advice.
― Horreur! What are this disassociated lumps of (in orbit), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 04:45 (ten years ago) link
the problem is that both airports are way too far from most chilxors to make a one-hour changeover worth it.
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 05:25 (ten years ago) link
airports are extremely relaxing environments, mostly cuz there's computerized voices often. they are my favorite environments, besides train terminals (and trains)
― dude-icrous (color definition point of "beyond "color, eg a transient that), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 05:29 (ten years ago) link
Now crashing in Long Island City with friend of friend I fancied 18 years ago (alas, not any more). Contact has been made off-board with in orbit and plans to crash at hers if/when my flight tomorrow is cancelled as well... (in orbit: no big case; I packed hand luggage for this contingency. JFK can look after the case till they can get me on a flight).
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 05:37 (ten years ago) link
glad u have a crashpad ljub
good luck tomorrow!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 05:38 (ten years ago) link
I hope everyone is aware of the Guide To Sleeping In Airports site: http://www.sleepinginairports.net
I've contributed!
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 07:58 (ten years ago) link
no, the actual problem would be ice potentially grounding my connecting flight, and me not getting to London in time to meet my RTW ticket again, two days later
but things may be working out better
― giant faps are what you take, wanking on the moon (sic), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 09:08 (ten years ago) link
Fuck me
― 龜, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 10:12 (ten years ago) link
Fuuck me
― 龜, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 10:56 (ten years ago) link
Fuuuck me
― 龜, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 12:06 (ten years ago) link
At the airport bar, where I ordered Maker's Mark from an iPad.
― Esa-Pekka Merkerson (get bent), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 18:14 (ten years ago) link
Fuuuuck me
― 龜, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 18:30 (ten years ago) link
takin bets on dayo's next post, 4/1 says 'all good now y'all :)'
― VENIET IMBER (imago), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 18:36 (ten years ago) link
I got to change to the direct flight, four hours shorter travel time too and I fly over the north pole y'all
― giant faps are what you take, wanking on the moon (sic), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 20:01 (ten years ago) link
so I'm not in an airport yet
say hi to santa
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 22:26 (ten years ago) link
Fuuuuuck me
― 龜, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 22:27 (ten years ago) link
dayo in Airport 2014: The Vortex After Tomorrow
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 23:39 (ten years ago) link
I am being ilx hosted by in orbit! I am grateful as hell. Flight to Toronto not till Thursday now (supposed to have been Monday).
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 00:52 (ten years ago) link
awesome!! air-ilx-bnb
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 00:59 (ten years ago) link
So excited! I thought after we had coffee today that I was being un-ljubbed but NO here's more!
― Horreur! What are this disassociated lumps of (in orbit), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 01:03 (ten years ago) link
Lol ljub I was supposed to fly through Toronto too
― 龜, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 01:04 (ten years ago) link
It's nice that my roommate is still out of the country so you can have his rooms, it'll be like your own apartment until he gets back sometime tomorrow (boo).
― Horreur! What are this disassociated lumps of (in orbit), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 01:08 (ten years ago) link
― giant faps are what you take, wanking on the moon (sic), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 01:55 (ten years ago) link
we're going to need an ongoing graph or .xls updating the % of ilxors currently in airports
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 02:00 (ten years ago) link
I'm in a hotel near an airport
― caek, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 02:04 (ten years ago) link
hmm
maybe a venn diagram would be more informative
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 02:05 (ten years ago) link
My alarm is set for 4.30am oh jeez
― caek, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 02:06 (ten years ago) link
Owwww
― Horreur! What are this disassociated lumps of (in orbit), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 02:08 (ten years ago) link
I'd throw a get-together at my apt tmrw night for all ilxors who can make it back into town to see ljubljana but I have this pesky interview thing in the evening.
― Horreur! What are this disassociated lumps of (in orbit), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 02:15 (ten years ago) link
Reporting from down the hall that the conversation and the apartment are both awesome.
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 07:31 (ten years ago) link
:D i love it when a messageboard comes together
― VENIET IMBER (imago), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 07:38 (ten years ago) link
i am no longer in an airport or on a plane or en route to any kind of air travel scenario.
*drops dead*
― Esa-Pekka Merkerson (get bent), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 08:18 (ten years ago) link
Am heading to an airport in 4 hours to fly back to the non-insane weather of the PacNW
― An Android Pug of Some Kind? (kingfish), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 08:34 (ten years ago) link
― caek, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 12:13 (ten years ago) link
Everything is fine, it's just really early
― caek, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 12:14 (ten years ago) link
― giant faps are what you take, wanking on the moon (sic), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 12:29 (ten years ago) link
Houston is on of the least awful airports to connect IMO
― caek, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 12:36 (ten years ago) link
^^agreed. Wide corridors, not-awful food options.
― kate78, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 16:39 (ten years ago) link
in an aiiiirport. looks like my flight is 15 minutes delayed, no big deal
― mh, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 18:04 (ten years ago) link
charlotte us airways terminal wasn't terrible for a layover. at least there was a carolina bbq place.
― Esa-Pekka Merkerson (get bent), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 18:06 (ten years ago) link
uh the emergency lights are flashing and "a reported emergency situation is being investigated" so I am to "stand by for further instructions"
the music is still playing even though a klaxon keeps going off, hah
― mh, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 18:27 (ten years ago) link
friend of mine had her London -> Ottawa flight delayed by 12 hours today, we very nearly got to say hello at the terminal
― giant faps are what you take, wanking on the moon (sic), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 18:42 (ten years ago) link
my plane is incoming (American) but a United one to Chicago was cancelled. Kind of assuming mine will still be able to return to o'hare once it gets here, but kind of slow going so far
― mh, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 18:58 (ten years ago) link
I am no longer in an airport
― caek, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 19:18 (ten years ago) link
I think I spend more time taxiing around o'hare than I actually spend in the air half the time
― mh, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 20:50 (ten years ago) link
i'm in an apartment
― caek, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 21:31 (ten years ago) link
is it nice there?
― mh, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 21:42 (ten years ago) link
― giant faps are what you take, wanking on the moon (sic), Friday, 10 January 2014 11:18 (ten years ago) link
― giant faps are what you take, wanking on the moon (sic), Saturday, 11 January 2014 00:49 (ten years ago) link
i'll be in an airport in like a month, already not looking forward to it
― the slow death of America's rich pastoral heritage (silby), Saturday, 11 January 2014 05:01 (ten years ago) link
In an airport
Gonna spend the next ~26 hours in this + 2 other airports + 2 different planes
Nice
Hell Yeah
― 龜, Saturday, 11 January 2014 10:00 (ten years ago) link
― giant faps are what you take, wanking on the moon (sic), Saturday, 11 January 2014 10:05 (ten years ago) link
good thing you carry your home on your back xp
― mh, Saturday, 11 January 2014 14:58 (ten years ago) link
ALL COMPUTERS ARE DOWN!!!
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 11 January 2014 15:03 (ten years ago) link
I'm in a foggy airport. I may be some time.
― pauls00, Saturday, 11 January 2014 17:37 (ten years ago) link
airport! I am.
― mh, Saturday, 11 January 2014 18:46 (ten years ago) link
Wish I'd discovered this thread 7 months ago tbh
― giant faps are what you take, wanking on the moon (sic), Saturday, 11 January 2014 21:39 (ten years ago) link
PS i'm in an airport
Layover is excuse to drink during the day afaict. Cheers.
― ad music for ad people (Hunt3r), Saturday, 18 January 2014 17:12 (ten years ago) link
this terminal in LAX only has a burger king, a starbucks, a sit-down seafood restaurant, and a kiosk selling cold sandwiches
― the slow death of America's rich pastoral heritage (silby), Monday, 24 February 2014 01:29 (ten years ago) link
i am outside the christchurch (nz) airport waiting for a shuttle.
― estela, Monday, 24 February 2014 02:26 (ten years ago) link
some man just bought a coke from the vending machine and then said 'amazing machine eh'.
― estela, Monday, 24 February 2014 02:29 (ten years ago) link
like his approach to life tbh
― the slow death of America's rich pastoral heritage (silby), Monday, 24 February 2014 07:11 (ten years ago) link
he was cheerful and likeable and quite sunburnt, i hope there's some aloe vera gel wherever he is.
― estela, Monday, 24 February 2014 10:40 (ten years ago) link
Man, I wish I lived in New Zealand.
― UK Cop Humour (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 24 February 2014 10:56 (ten years ago) link
hellow from HeathrowNot much happening tbh.
― robocop ELF (seandalai), Saturday, 22 March 2014 10:06 (ten years ago) link
https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/t1.0-9/p480x480/1510663_10151975251821596_645147178_n.jpg
At PDX today, we see the safest possible layout for a water bottle spout just inches away from the gaping maw of the hungry toaster. All powered by a non-ground-protected outlet.
― President Frankenstein (kingfish), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 04:46 (ten years ago) link
Tonight on the BUR 80s hit parade: Talking Heads "And She Was"
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 28 March 2014 03:28 (ten years ago) link
The plane I'm supposed to take from JFK to LAX sucked a bird into the engine on landing at JFK, so I'm delayed until another plane comes in. JFK Terminal 5 Wi-Fi seems strong so far.
Severely annoyed that my fave bagel shop in Terminal 5 was nuked by the arrival of the CIBO behemoth.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 00:54 (ten years ago) link
Always baffled by people who get dressed up to get on a plane.
― robocop ELF (seandalai), Thursday, 3 April 2014 14:45 (ten years ago) link
no kidding! if you're immediately going to a business meeting, I guess there is some motivation, but you really should be wearing comfortable, breathable clothes
― have a nice blood/orange bitters cocktail (mh), Thursday, 3 April 2014 14:58 (ten years ago) link
lool i wasa at the airport last week the voice there is soooooo soothing
― beavis bacon (zxc), Thursday, 3 April 2014 16:09 (ten years ago) link
I am between two airports, hurtling thru the atmosphere above Idaho.
― kate78, Saturday, 5 April 2014 05:36 (ten years ago) link
I'm on a plane that's on the ground
― 龜, Saturday, 5 April 2014 05:41 (ten years ago) link
montreal's bizarro, rarely-used, but kind of modernist masterpiece airport mirabel is finally getting torn down. they made a lot of movies there.
https://scontent-b-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/t1.0-9/148292_10154069870735043_6100937741321186077_n.jpg
― socki (s1ocki), Friday, 2 May 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
was this made there
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0f/Airport_77_movie_poster.jpg
― am0n, Friday, 2 May 2014 20:04 (nine years ago) link
I had no idea. They pretty much doomed it by never officially pushing traffic to it, huh?
Dorval was only 20 minutes away from the city core while it took 50 minutes to get to Mirabel in ideal traffic conditions.
lol @ 20 minutes
s1ocki, what do you think the likelihood of them finishing a train line from downtown to the actually-used airport? I just read they're going to start in 2015.
― a strange man (mh), Friday, 2 May 2014 20:43 (nine years ago) link
I'm picking someone up in an airport
― Gritty Shakur (sic), Friday, 2 May 2014 21:37 (nine years ago) link
― a strange man (mh), Friday, May 2, 2014 4:43 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lollllllllllllllllll
― socki (s1ocki), Sunday, 4 May 2014 15:11 (nine years ago) link
yeeeah
― a strange man (mh), Sunday, 4 May 2014 15:19 (nine years ago) link
― Gritty Shakur (sic), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 06:08 (nine years ago) link
I'm sitting in LAX waiting for a (delayed) 1am red eye departure.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 07:22 (nine years ago) link
I'm in another airport
― Gritty Shakur (sic), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 07:30 (nine years ago) link
Will be in another airport heading back to central PA in about 12 hours.
Also, watched "Up in the Air" tonight.
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 07:39 (nine years ago) link
I'm now boarding around 1:30am.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 07:43 (nine years ago) link
Dammit missed my flight
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 18:55 (nine years ago) link
I'm dropping someone off in an airport :(
― rage against martin sheen (sic), Sunday, 18 May 2014 03:28 (nine years ago) link
I am.. well, we all know the drill
― a strange man (mh), Monday, 26 May 2014 14:14 (nine years ago) link
had just enough time to cram a bagel dog down my maw in Detroit
― a strange man (mh), Monday, 26 May 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link
something wrong with the flaps on my plane, might not make my connection
if I am stuck in majestic mpls/st paul it might not be horrible
― a strange man (mh), Monday, 2 June 2014 22:48 (nine years ago) link
I'm about to sleep in an airport
Area Q in Pearson
― 龜, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 02:20 (nine years ago) link
*waves fondly from a few miles down the road*
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 02:50 (nine years ago) link
My boots and my tools never left chicago, so going to the customer site tomorrow should be real fun
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 05:10 (nine years ago) link
I haven't spent enough time in Pearson to offer any survival tips, sorry.
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 05:11 (nine years ago) link
Ask in advance for the employee with the daintiest fingers to be assigned to assist you all day.
― rage against martin sheen (sic), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 05:31 (nine years ago) link
I miscalculated when my friend's wedding is. I will be back in an airport in a couple weeks.
― a strange man (mh), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 05:33 (nine years ago) link
The late night crew is playing Prince and the Fixx. Nice
Also I can't sleep and want to die painlessly
― 龜, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 06:24 (nine years ago) link
in Dublin airport yesterday they played Sky Ferreira, Mariah/Miguel, and Beyoncé, and I wondered if the airport code was ILX
― Euler, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 08:27 (nine years ago) link
DUB beats
― dn/ac (darraghmac), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 08:43 (nine years ago) link
shit, 龜, I should have offered you to come and crash, seriously.
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 12:26 (nine years ago) link
Ha aw thanks for the offer but I probably wouldn't have slept well anyway, I am trying to overcome a 12 hour time zone jet lag
― 龜, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 16:41 (nine years ago) link
i know alan dulles very well, i sat for many hours at his airport
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 18:36 (nine years ago) link
(wiki sez it's named after john foster but sure that's what they tell you)
why did i get all excited when i saw the sign for wendy's, this isn't exciting
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 18:43 (nine years ago) link
hi
― dem bow dem bow need calcium (seandalai), Monday, 23 June 2014 06:58 (nine years ago) link
i was supposed to be in an airport but my flight got cancelled while i was on my way, so now i've come back home and i'm hyping myself up for the 11 hour megabus journey i'll be taking in a few hours. lol.
― Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 04:59 (nine years ago) link
I recommend being unconscious
― Forks I'd Clove to Fu (silby), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 05:15 (nine years ago) link
i'm a seasoned veteran of comically long megabus journeys (longest being something like 13 hours i think), i can survive it as long as i don't have to sit near the toilet.
― Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 05:24 (nine years ago) link
I once did like 16 or 18 hours from Vegas to Tucson. That was kind of insane.
― aaliyah papi (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 11:22 (nine years ago) link
I was stranded in Birmingham airport two days ago because Atlanta was shut down -- eeek that carpet.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 11:25 (nine years ago) link
At Heathrow terminal five at 3:25am, having massively underestimated how long it takes to get here by cab. Eerily quiet. Lots of people sleeping on the floor until check in opens in an hour.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Friday, 5 September 2014 02:31 (nine years ago) link
A better class of people sleeping on the floor than you get at Stansted or Gatwick though.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Friday, 5 September 2014 02:32 (nine years ago) link
The duty free in Sydney airport doesn't have red velvet Tim Tams, wtf
― dave matthews' gland (sic), Friday, 12 September 2014 23:22 (nine years ago) link
wifi in Vancouver airport doesn't let you log in properly
― dave matthews' gland (sic), Saturday, 13 September 2014 18:04 (nine years ago) link
my bookmark didn't update on zing so I couldn't post from two airports on Monday
― Starland Vocal Gland (sic), Thursday, 25 September 2014 18:51 (nine years ago) link
oh hey due to a queue, I'm in an airport for the next 6 hours, then spending the night on a plane instead of a hotel room on the other side of the country
― Starland Vocal Gland (sic), Thursday, 25 September 2014 20:26 (nine years ago) link
with another flight and airport in between
― Starland Vocal Gland (sic), Thursday, 25 September 2014 20:27 (nine years ago) link
have already checked out the Sub Pop store, which has 1000000 hoodies but no copies of the new Afghan Whigs album
― Starland Vocal Gland (sic), Thursday, 25 September 2014 20:29 (nine years ago) link
now getting a pedicure
― Starland Vocal Gland (sic), Thursday, 25 September 2014 20:47 (nine years ago) link
what's up, SFO
― Starland Vocal Gland (sic), Friday, 26 September 2014 04:59 (nine years ago) link
*waves from Sacramento*
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 26 September 2014 05:09 (nine years ago) link
good morning, Philly
― Starland Vocal Gland (sic), Friday, 26 September 2014 12:16 (nine years ago) link
just got a high score of 24800 on Doodlejump in an airport
― Starland Vocal Gland (sic), Saturday, 27 September 2014 18:49 (nine years ago) link
I am in a weird tiny airport in Trenton, NJ that feels like a v dated and bland ski lodge or something, there are v weird sculptures outside, and the cabbie charged me $15 to take me less than 2 mi :-(
― rad het chilly poppers (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 27 September 2014 19:19 (nine years ago) link
No better way to point out the vulnerabilities of your national transportation infrastructure than having a suicidal dude set an ATC tower on fire in the most crowded hub airspace in North America
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Saturday, 27 September 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link
!
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 September 2014 20:39 (nine years ago) link
At that hub rn, just had to get off the plane and get in a queue to get back in the plane
Might ditch it to go get one more Chicago dog
― Starland Vocal Gland (sic), Saturday, 27 September 2014 22:45 (nine years ago) link
^ didn't have time, am sitting on immobile plane instead DAMMIT
― Starland Vocal Gland (sic), Saturday, 27 September 2014 23:22 (nine years ago) link
If at Midway, def get another Gold Coast dog
― GhostTunes on my Pono (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 27 September 2014 23:50 (nine years ago) link
and chili cheese fries
get a gyro at o'hare imo
― GhostTunes on my Pono (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 27 September 2014 23:51 (nine years ago) link
hello Sea-Tac my old friend
― Starland Vocal Gland (sic), Sunday, 28 September 2014 03:57 (nine years ago) link
Land of crumpets iirc
― GhostTunes on my Pono (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 28 September 2014 04:47 (nine years ago) link
Sea-Tac = House of Leaves, like I hope you have a spare 3 days to find your way out
― rad het chilly poppers (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 28 September 2014 05:44 (nine years ago) link
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 28 September 2014 06:29 (nine years ago) link
hope you're having a kicky weekend Stevie
― Starland Vocal Gland (sic), Sunday, 28 September 2014 09:13 (nine years ago) link
so v kicky
― rad het chilly poppers (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 28 September 2014 14:15 (nine years ago) link
me irlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDoPxYXu46M
Thank God for Professional Football
it keeps CNN off the flatscreens
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 01:31 (nine years ago) link
Leaving Sea-Tac again, again
sadly unlikely to visit for another year or so
― Starland Vocal Gland (sic), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 18:00 (nine years ago) link
Sitting in Pittsburgh and it's humid as fuuuuuuck in here
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 18:57 (nine years ago) link
LAX, you're a long way from your own runways.
― Starland Vocal Gland (sic), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 21:03 (nine years ago) link
LAX's wifi doesn't let you post and Nadi's wanted payment in Fijian dollars and Sydney's now requires you to sign up to use it
― Starland Vocal Gland (sic), Saturday, 18 October 2014 02:50 (nine years ago) link
are you just staying in the airport there till your next trip
― Spirit of Match Game '76 (silby), Saturday, 18 October 2014 02:56 (nine years ago) link
I didn't post until I'd put my Australian sim back in and headed for a cab
― Starland Vocal Gland (sic), Saturday, 18 October 2014 04:42 (nine years ago) link
Currently at Borispol airport. A British woman in her sixties is explaining Jewish people to another British woman in her forties who seems to new to the whole concept. Tbf, the one doing the explaining seems to only have a marginally better grasp. Quite how anyone so unworldly managed to end up in Ukraine is a mystery but not one I'm keen to explore further.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 05:24 (nine years ago) link
well the Jews were all expelled from Britain at some point right
― Spirit of Match Game '76 (silby), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 05:26 (nine years ago) link
She legitimately just asked whether there were any Jewish people in Britain!
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 05:27 (nine years ago) link
not as if they'd all go waltzing back after that nasty expulsion business tho
― Spirit of Match Game '76 (silby), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 05:28 (nine years ago) link
I flew to another city without taking off my shoes or showing any form of ID whatsoever, take that America
― the incredible string gland (sic), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 03:40 (nine years ago) link
were you flying from a city in australia to another city in australia?
― jenny holzer, ilxor (mh), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 14:29 (nine years ago) link
yes
take that America ✈
― the incredible string gland (sic), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 14:40 (nine years ago) link
got it, thanks ✈
― jenny holzer, ilxor (mh), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 14:44 (nine years ago) link
Haha, how did I miss this.
http://cdn0.dailydot.com/uploaded/images/original/2014/7/28/tmnt.png
Stay cute, paramount.au!
― pplains, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 15:03 (nine years ago) link
I'm in an airport rnHave to restrain myself from tweeting "I'm in an airport" every time I get the wifi in an airport
― fgti, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 15:05 (nine years ago) link
that's what the thread's for!
― legit new threat wrt to a norman invasion (seandalai), Thursday, 13 November 2014 09:31 (nine years ago) link
I'm in Vienna airport flying to Warsaw. Free wi-fi.
― goth colouring book (anagram), Sunday, 16 November 2014 16:07 (nine years ago) link
Are you flying to Chopin or Modlin?
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Sunday, 16 November 2014 16:11 (nine years ago) link
Chopin
― goth colouring book (anagram), Sunday, 16 November 2014 18:59 (nine years ago) link
i am watching the movie airport
does that count?
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 16 November 2014 19:01 (nine years ago) link
I'm the only passenger on my flight out of Tupelo, unless someone shows up in the next 20 minutes.
― WmC, Thursday, 20 November 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link
Ha, cool.
Friend of mine once rode a solo early-early morning commercial flight from Columbia, Mo. to St. Louis. The pilot came out of the cockpit, sat down next to him and started whispering, "Ok, FAA rules state I have to tell you this, but here's how you fasten your seat belt. If you look under your seat…"
― pplains, Thursday, 20 November 2014 17:48 (nine years ago) link
― jenny holzer, ilxor (mh), Thursday, 20 November 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link
What was under the seat??
― ambergris shmambergris (silby), Thursday, 20 November 2014 18:34 (nine years ago) link
flotation device iirc
― jenny holzer, ilxor (mh), Thursday, 20 November 2014 18:52 (nine years ago) link
from the story it sounded like it might've turned out to be a creepy sex thing or sthing
― ambergris shmambergris (silby), Thursday, 20 November 2014 19:00 (nine years ago) link
Now I'm in the Memphis airport. I wish I hadn't decided against bringing my camera on this trip -- I was on an 8 seat Cessna out of tupelo, totally open cabin, flyin' low. Watching the pilots checking their little screen that says "Garmin."
― WmC, Thursday, 20 November 2014 19:27 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/etiplIa.jpg
"THIS YOUR FIRST TIME USING UBER?"
― pplains, Thursday, 20 November 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link
pplains you are a traet
― jenny holzer, ilxor (mh), Friday, 21 November 2014 01:33 (nine years ago) link
It's a delightfully crisp ten degrees below zero at Borispol.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 16:34 (nine years ago) link
Will be in an airport in a couple minutes.
― burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb ranks (The Reverend), Thursday, 4 December 2014 04:03 (nine years ago) link
plz file a SeaTac music report
― ambergris shmambergris (silby), Thursday, 4 December 2014 04:16 (nine years ago) link
woo Rev
― the incredible string gland (sic), Thursday, 4 December 2014 05:30 (nine years ago) link
Ended up being here several hours. Can't remember any music, just news. Bad, bad news. Last time I was here they were playing "About a Girl" tho.
― burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb ranks (The Reverend), Thursday, 4 December 2014 08:14 (nine years ago) link
Got to the check-in desk like 5 minutes after the baggage limit ended, so they put me on the later flight, which wouldn't have been so bad had it not been 4 hours later and delayed so that I got to my hotel tonight at like 130 am.
― Delbert Gravy (kingfish), Thursday, 4 December 2014 09:31 (nine years ago) link
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/f6c6e99134622a4addf14b8671cf0046_zpse5a5d8bc.jpg
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/008c353448fed4e7189a070c26122051_zps14131bfa.jpg
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/4d09e529d42b9781e067ddfabbd50484_zps335d1e3d.jpg
― pplains, Saturday, 13 December 2014 20:30 (nine years ago) link
Can't keep Hammer away from the slots.
Beeps and Sunny keep stopping at jewelry kiosks.
I'm eyeing those sealed little MUST BE OVER 21 rooms pretty hard.
― pplains, Saturday, 13 December 2014 20:34 (nine years ago) link
Stansted is a building site at the moment. Completely awful.
Limited space not being helped by the bros sleeping across four seats.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Sunday, 25 January 2015 06:54 (nine years ago) link
stansted airport, last night:
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/anm7BwbDtV8/hqdefault.jpg
― seandalai, Sunday, 25 January 2015 14:47 (nine years ago) link
I am not in an airport. My flight was oversold and now I'm being put up in a hotel. Not so bad, actually...
― ed.b, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 05:59 (nine years ago) link
At London City for the first time because all the flights to Milan from proper airports were booked. If this happens again, I'm going by boat.
― Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Monday, 16 February 2015 12:15 (nine years ago) link
Convenient to get too, though, I'll give it that.
― Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Monday, 16 February 2015 12:17 (nine years ago) link
*to get to*
Swiss had better serve wine in economy.
― Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Monday, 16 February 2015 12:21 (nine years ago) link
hey, flight cancelled. thanks obama
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Monday, 16 February 2015 16:01 (nine years ago) link
tomorrow at ~4am~ i will be in an airport but obv not in my body
D:
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 16 February 2015 19:36 (nine years ago) link
Coming to visit?
― oochie wally (clean version) (sic), Monday, 16 February 2015 21:17 (nine years ago) link
nope - tryin to go to Nashville
welp I *was* in an airport until our flight got cancelled so maybe flying out tomorrow ... or not at all
meanwhile I've been up since 3am and it sucks ass
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 15:41 (nine years ago) link
with all the ice in Nashville tho I wouldnt be surprised if trip gets cancelled
veg, i am leaving to nashville tonight; hope we don't end up stranded at the same destination
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 16:20 (nine years ago) link
lol airport fap
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 16:25 (nine years ago) link
Veg u r not in LGA are u?
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 23:53 (nine years ago) link
nooo
Sacramento.
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 18 February 2015 02:02 (nine years ago) link
Got it. Nyc is running about two hours late
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 18 February 2015 03:46 (nine years ago) link
I actually ran into someone from town in an airport and had an impromptu fap once! We were on the same two flights and I caught up with her when we got off the first and had food and drinks. Both in San Diego for completely diff reasons
― mh, Wednesday, 18 February 2015 04:25 (nine years ago) link
made it to LAX - flight still scheduled, seems like I might actually get to Nashville this time!
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 18 February 2015 16:10 (nine years ago) link
You know there's a better way of getting to Nashville, right?
― pplains, Wednesday, 18 February 2015 19:22 (nine years ago) link
https://scontent-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/1524567_10152649632461596_6020628652108675935_n.jpg?oh=b5523bba71f8aa5f3b3159847be6b2b0&oe=55908115
The airport PA in Chattanooga was playing what sounded like nothing but Saturday Night Live music. God help us all.
― Delbert Gravy (kingfish), Thursday, 19 February 2015 20:02 (nine years ago) link
so our flights out of nashville (4pm today) had to get re-booked for earlier flight bcs of the next icestorm
today was the 3rd morning in 4 days that i was in an airport before 5am early mornings can fuuuuuuuuck off
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 21 February 2015 00:31 (nine years ago) link
There's no wifi in Honolulu airport either.
― oochie wally (clean version) (sic), Thursday, 26 February 2015 18:26 (nine years ago) link
I fell asleep with my shirt off on a small patch of grass between the street and the beach in Waikiki. Which seems to basically be a cross between Manly and the Gold Coast?
― oochie wally (clean version) (sic), Friday, 27 February 2015 01:40 (nine years ago) link
blatant humblebragging itt
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 27 February 2015 04:02 (nine years ago) link
most jealous of the falling asleep outside during day part tbh
― you can buy your hair if it won't grow (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 27 February 2015 06:31 (nine years ago) link
Kona International has no walls: just intermittent hut-rooves and plenty of sun.
― oochie wally (clean version) (sic), Sunday, 1 March 2015 21:37 (nine years ago) link
LAX terminal 4 is still a dump, but the food options are 100% better now (Kogi & Peets)
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 21:03 (nine years ago) link
I'm in an airport (LAX United terminal 76), and there's a big group of college students who are way too energetic for this hour.
― Textured Vegetable Personalities (get bent), Friday, 27 March 2015 06:22 (nine years ago) link
I always say I'm not gonna take United anymore, and the prices keep sucking me back in.
― Textured Vegetable Personalities (get bent), Friday, 27 March 2015 06:23 (nine years ago) link
5.5 hours before I head off to bounce thru SFO to Austin. Whee.
― The Thin Blue Slime (kingfish), Friday, 27 March 2015 07:07 (nine years ago) link
I'm in an airport, it's 6:11 a.m., and I've just had half a Three Musketeers bar to keep me awake.
― HISTERICAL COMEDIC SPOKESMAN (get bent), Thursday, 16 April 2015 13:12 (nine years ago) link
Flemish sounds hilarious
― droit au butt (Euler), Thursday, 16 April 2015 13:43 (nine years ago) link
i'm in an airport. head a bit blitzed. drinking gin. lot of english business cunts around.
― Fizzles, Friday, 17 April 2015 03:32 (nine years ago) link
I'm in an airport, London City, or 'baby's first airport', 2 and a half hour delay on a one hour flight to Holland, because of a bird strike, I appreciate the candour but eeeek!
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 08:38 (eight years ago) link
didn't know birds had a union
― brunch technician (silby), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 16:26 (eight years ago) link
I'm in Vienna airport waiting to board a plane to Sarajevo.
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Sunday, 26 April 2015 17:44 (eight years ago) link
Kona International has no walls: just intermittent hut-rooves and plenty of sun
meant to back this up:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/kitbrash/airportpic_zpsdzxh1ngb.jpg
― ( who ALSO my boss and his sister!) (sic), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 13:54 (eight years ago) link
hahahaha i love that so much
― WE WANT FET WAP (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 7 May 2015 19:16 (eight years ago) link
Post-election mood at London Fisher Price is predictably positive. Rest of Newham probably less so.
Rarely happier to be leaving the country.
― Petite Lamela (ShariVari), Friday, 8 May 2015 07:21 (eight years ago) link
urrrggh at getting up at 5am on a Saturday to pick someone up at the airport
― ( who ALSO my boss and his sister!) (sic), Friday, 22 May 2015 20:45 (eight years ago) link
especially when they've redesigned the parking since last time you did this, so you accidentally pay an entire parking fee just getting an outside spot
― ( who ALSO my boss and his sister!) (sic), Friday, 22 May 2015 20:47 (eight years ago) link
hope you're picking up someone fun, at least!
― ultimate american sock (mh), Friday, 22 May 2015 20:47 (eight years ago) link
I should never be in an airport before 7am
I forgot to take the liquids out of my bag during screening and no one even cared, though
― ultimate american sock (mh), Sunday, 24 May 2015 10:31 (eight years ago) link
^^me too
― WE WANT FET WAP (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 20:23 (eight years ago) link
I take back all of my past experiences of Midway airport in Chicago kind of being chill, though. Apparently since Southwest has expanded operations it's busy as hell. Still a lot less of a clusterfuck than O'Hare, but crowded.
― ultimate american sock (mh), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 20:40 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, they rarely give a shit about liquids being out anymore. I fly a lot, always leave them in my bag, get called out maybe 1 in 15?
― kate78, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 22:01 (eight years ago) link
enlisting in the conspiracy at DIA
― List of people who are ready for woe and how we know this (seandalai), Saturday, 6 June 2015 20:35 (eight years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4irVuZamOhA/TLVuhnjR9CI/AAAAAAAADyk/pXKZNmXcY9k/s1600/scan0097.jpg
― ultimate american sock (mh), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 15:46 (eight years ago) link
Plane Stupid have re-formed and chosen today to launch their first action. My encounters with their members have been detailed elsewhere.
Currently stuck at LHR terminal 3 eyeing up the free whisky samples.
― I wear my Redditor loathing with pride (ShariVari), Monday, 13 July 2015 07:57 (eight years ago) link
In LCY feeling proper ShariVari
― gawker's psychotic monkeys (imago), Monday, 20 July 2015 06:13 (eight years ago) link
Just ordered a ten-quid Eggs Florentine
― gawker's psychotic monkeys (imago), Monday, 20 July 2015 06:18 (eight years ago) link
No sign of Plane Stupid here #boss
― gawker's psychotic monkeys (imago), Monday, 20 July 2015 06:20 (eight years ago) link
What the hell is an Embraer 190SR
― gawker's psychotic monkeys (imago), Monday, 20 July 2015 07:34 (eight years ago) link
One of the smaller, narrower planes - 2x2 per row instead of 2x3. Are you going to Switzerland?
― I wear my Redditor loathing with pride (ShariVari), Monday, 20 July 2015 08:20 (eight years ago) link
Just touched down in Edinburgh. Going to the south of France in a few weeks (same assignment)
It took me literally 15 minutes from leaving my front door to entering the airport, all with public transport. Wonder if that's an ILX record
― gawker's psychotic monkeys (imago), Monday, 20 July 2015 08:47 (eight years ago) link
I've doing LCY to Edinburgh for the last few weeks. Takes me about 30 mins which is great.
Stuck in the runway for half hour though.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 20 July 2015 09:22 (eight years ago) link
runway today - usually its really smooth.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 20 July 2015 09:25 (eight years ago) link
Whenever this thread is updated, and I'm myself in an airport, my eternal hope is that I might be able to look across the concourse and wave
Love from Brussels
― got a long list of ilxors (fgti), Monday, 20 July 2015 10:45 (eight years ago) link
omg if I saw u in an airport I wd bolt across the concourse and eagerly embrace u
― WE WANT FET WAP (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 20 July 2015 13:50 (eight years ago) link
not in an airport rn
wish i was in an airport rn bcz that means i wd be flying far far away
love that feeling even though i really hate airports
― marcos, Monday, 20 July 2015 13:51 (eight years ago) link
Feeling rather let down by Tegel, not sure why I thought it would have been some massive, unyielding Gilliamesque place, it's kinda toy irl.
― MaresNest, Monday, 20 July 2015 17:36 (eight years ago) link
I'm about to sleep in an airport. The Gatwick Yotel. It promises to be cramped. But in a nice way, like Cub Scout camping.
― imago, Saturday, 1 August 2015 22:13 (eight years ago) link
was in JFK last night, transfer from a domestic to an international flight; worst airport I've ever been in and I've been in some airports. Useful signage nonexistent and the food prices were hilarious.
― droit au butt (Euler), Sunday, 2 August 2015 20:25 (eight years ago) link
Most insane queues I've ever seen at SYD this morning, taken me 90 minutes of non-stop cattleherding from door of airport to door of plane
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Sunday, 9 August 2015 23:20 (eight years ago) link
stayed up all night & slept 5 hours the two previous though, hopefully will be unconscious before we break clouds
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Sunday, 9 August 2015 23:22 (eight years ago) link
I"m going from SEA to ORD today and the airport is full of DOTA 2 fans (plus one guy in an Evil Genius shirt, could have been a player) and tweens in Taylor Swift t-shirts (her show was in Seattle last night). Pretty crazy to see so many young kids who had traveled to Seattle for entertainment.
― brotherlovesdub, Sunday, 9 August 2015 23:56 (eight years ago) link
LAX wifi as shitful as ever
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Monday, 10 August 2015 14:14 (eight years ago) link
welcome again to our shores, sic!
― Upright Mammal (mh), Monday, 10 August 2015 14:34 (eight years ago) link
was in JFK last night, transfer from a domestic to an international flight; worst airport I've ever been in and I've been in some airports. Useful signage nonexistent and the food prices were hilarious
JFK has six terminals, each separate and distinct, which were built at different times and vary widely in quality and appeal. You may have gotten a bad one.
Terminal 5 (JetBlue + some Aer Lingus flights) is the nicest.
― Josefa, Monday, 10 August 2015 14:55 (eight years ago) link
We landed at terminal 4 but had to get to terminal 1 and there were no signs on how to do that. The only way we knew we were even in terminal 4 was that we asked, and we also had to line up and ask to find out where our connection would be leaving from. Ultimately we had to take a bus, leave security, go through some other building (where the pizza vendors were helpful at least in directing us), then go outside, turn left (still no helpful signs) and then finally see a terminal 1 sign at yet another building. That terminal was ugly and had $9 gözleme but at least it was where we needed to be. It was great.
And to boot, we finally got our luggage today, 9 days after leaving JFK.
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 10 August 2015 15:55 (eight years ago) link
Sounds like a nightmare
― Josefa, Monday, 10 August 2015 16:19 (eight years ago) link
Both NYC airports are circles of hell iirc (and I spent about 5 hours in LGA the other week.) For my money you really should drive to Newark. Or Idlewild ffs, which frankly is on the LIRR so sign me up.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Monday, 10 August 2015 16:51 (eight years ago) link
we flew out of terminal 8 I'd rather terminal disease tbpfh
― irl lol (darraghmac), Monday, 10 August 2015 17:28 (eight years ago) link
When I think of JFK I think of io with fervent love. She rescued me from two potential nights in that place, fed and watered and entertained me. Hoping she gets stuck in Pearson or Billy Bishop soon so that I can return the favour.
― ljubljana, Monday, 10 August 2015 18:07 (eight years ago) link
is Billy Bishop the awesome one you'd have to row to rescue her from?
sup mh
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Monday, 10 August 2015 23:46 (eight years ago) link
the queue-ass bullshit delayed other passengers so much that I'd been asleep for an hour when we started taxiing btw
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Monday, 10 August 2015 23:49 (eight years ago) link
I have a respect for anyone who is already asleep by the time the plane takes off. Lady next to me did that early this year. She also had a dog that magically showed up when we landed, it was completely in stealth mode the whole flight.
― Upright Mammal (mh), Monday, 10 August 2015 23:50 (eight years ago) link
international terrierist
― irl lol (darraghmac), Monday, 10 August 2015 23:57 (eight years ago) link
my first time being dropped at LAX by a genial Uber dude rather than a crying girl
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Thursday, 20 August 2015 04:18 (eight years ago) link
had to tell it to forget the wifi in order to post obv
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Thursday, 20 August 2015 04:21 (eight years ago) link
this is some BULLSHIT every hot dog stand in O'Hare should be open at 5am, why do you think I flew through Chicago
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Thursday, 20 August 2015 11:07 (eight years ago) link
def eat as much as you can at O'Hare, you may never get out
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 August 2015 13:58 (eight years ago) link
Well, same goes for Chicago as a whole.
― pplains, Thursday, 20 August 2015 13:59 (eight years ago) link
this guys is really in an airport http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/ben-schlappig-airlines-fly-free-20150720
― niels, Thursday, 20 August 2015 14:01 (eight years ago) link
Literally the second thing I heard a Canadian say in YOW was "oh, eh."
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Thursday, 20 August 2015 14:23 (eight years ago) link
was it in regards to a tim horton's coffee?
― Upright Mammal (mh), Thursday, 20 August 2015 15:10 (eight years ago) link
Had a whole 20 minutes in ORD this time, so got two hot dogs to make up for Thursday.
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Monday, 24 August 2015 00:16 (eight years ago) link
chilling in the Cathay Pacific first class lounge at SFO
it's under construction so there's just some bananas and mini-packets of chips
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 01:47 (eight years ago) link
In a bus from the airport to home. At least they had beer at the airport.
― List of people who are ready for woe and how we know this (seandalai), Thursday, 3 September 2015 21:43 (eight years ago) link
Sea-Tac, 4am.
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Thursday, 24 September 2015 11:31 (eight years ago) link
scene: Dublin airport, 5am, Saturday
young parents of toddlers. I mostly try to forbear from position of lol-i-got-nobody-pregnant privilege, but:
fled to the table next to me in the airport, literally landed down like a hurricane with two big fry ups for themselves. market value thirty quid. tray hadn't hit the table and she said right we have to go. toddler one looking at the food on the table and screaming, they got up and left. 45 seconds max. yerman grabbed a rasher off the plate to eat on the way. so they took two kids, fucked everyone off in the queue behind them, stressed themselves out, mithered the children with the sight of the food, left the whole lot on the table and ran off in a fluster immediately. this was in full knowledge of the time limit they were under in advance.
I was for vulturing, she said not.
― deejerk reactions (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 September 2015 11:55 (eight years ago) link
last month had to demolish a lobster bisque in about 2 minutes but that's preposterous & u shd have wolfed down as much as you wanted, taken the disapproval
bet they had to wait 15 mins in a queue lol
― twunty fifteen (imago), Thursday, 24 September 2015 12:11 (eight years ago) link
twasnt a great fry tbf
― deejerk reactions (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 September 2015 12:14 (eight years ago) link
ah fair
― twunty fifteen (imago), Thursday, 24 September 2015 12:17 (eight years ago) link
have personally awful memories of dublin airport, having consumed a genuinely poisonous 'steak sandwich' at a central dublin diner just beforehand, was burping phosgene every 3 minutes while trying to sleep, my just-married still freaking out our hotel room had a ghost in it (which is why we'd headed to sleep overnight at the airport), altogether the end of the honeymoon ended up lasting nearly 2 years then over n out
― twunty fifteen (imago), Thursday, 24 September 2015 12:20 (eight years ago) link
LAX, 8am. Fuuuuuuck having to leave the airport and go through empty security theatre nonsense twice before breakfast.
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Thursday, 24 September 2015 16:02 (eight years ago) link
YYZ, 6pm. What a way to spend a birthday.
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Thursday, 24 September 2015 21:39 (eight years ago) link
aw HB mang
― deejerk reactions (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 September 2015 21:47 (eight years ago) link
lj that is a bad airport story but tbaftta there's a lot in it hadn't much to do with circs strictly under control of the daa
― deejerk reactions (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 September 2015 21:49 (eight years ago) link
a bad airport story
a post with striking narrative
― drash, Thursday, 24 September 2015 21:57 (eight years ago) link
lol xp
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 24 September 2015 21:57 (eight years ago) link
aviation issues
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 24 September 2015 21:59 (eight years ago) link
hiyoooo
― deejerk reactions (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 September 2015 21:59 (eight years ago) link
― twunty fifteen (imago), Thursday, 24 September 2015 22:00 (eight years ago) link
also, her wedding dress ended up in the bin of the ladies' toilets upon arrival there, as she felt she would have no further use for it
fyi she is already engaged again
― twunty fifteen (imago), Thursday, 24 September 2015 22:02 (eight years ago) link
michael o'leary should wish for turnaround stats like it hey
― deejerk reactions (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 September 2015 22:04 (eight years ago) link
Mock the Week is a British topical celebrity panel game hosted by Dara Ó Briain. The game is influenced by improvised topical stand-up comedy, with several rounds requiring players to deliver answers on unexpected subjects on the spur of the moment.[citation needed]
It is made by independent production company Angst Productions and made its debut on BBC Two on 5 June 2005. It was created by Dan Patterson and Mark Leveson, the same people responsible for the comedy game show Whose Line Is It Anyway?[2] The show's theme music is "News of the World" by The Jam.[3]
Old episodes currently air on Dave, a fact that is frequently mentioned on the show. Episodes regularly attract 3.5 million viewers.[4]
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 24 September 2015 22:35 (eight years ago) link
40 minutes wait on the tarmac at Heathrow for a bus to take us to the terminal. Now standing in a half-hour queue for border checking whatnot. My suitcase will be dizzy by the time I get through.
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Monday, 5 October 2015 06:33 (eight years ago) link
Facing the grim prospect of eating at Chili's twice in the same day.
Tempted to start smoking cigars as Kuwaiti duty free is unsurprisingly not big on alcohol.
― Al Ain Delon (ShariVari), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 15:12 (eight years ago) link
purell cocktail?
― pizza rolls are a food that exists (silby), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 15:25 (eight years ago) link
http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2015/10/airlines-middle-east
― noɪˈɣiːələx (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 15:26 (eight years ago) link
Going with FlyDubai, the local Easyjet equivalent. Their in flight magazine has lots of tips for up and coming tourist destinations they fly to, including Kabul, Sana'a and Baghdad.
― Al Ain Delon (ShariVari), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 15:36 (eight years ago) link
when the senile king and his (supposedly) 30 yr old son get gently shuffled aside shortly then sana'a will go back to being a viable tourist destination for those who prefer their bombs improvised rather than laser guided
― noɪˈɣiːələx (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 15:41 (eight years ago) link
Yes, it looks fascinating but, as the wikitravel page notes, does carry an ever present risk of getting beheaded on video.
― Al Ain Delon (ShariVari), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 15:44 (eight years ago) link
The only available outlet I could find during my 4 hour Sea-Tac layover requires me to sit in the tiny space underneath the arrival / departure sign in the N terminal so every once in a while I get a mass of people congregating in front of me and staring above me.
― joygoat, Wednesday, 7 October 2015 17:13 (eight years ago) link
Second-longest security queue of my life at JFK.
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Monday, 26 October 2015 21:10 (eight years ago) link
how long was it??
fyi the smoked meat poutine at Lester's Deli in the Montreal airport is gross, do not eat it.
― Ina-Garten-Da-Vida (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 17:38 (eight years ago) link
40 minutes or so. Halfway through they had a little station to check your passport and boarding pass, then continue queuing.
BTW by the end of this, it had taken me about six hours to fly from Toronto to London, and then three hours to get from landing to the house in north London I was staying in.
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 18:18 (eight years ago) link
also I went to Stansted for the first time a few weeks ago, but due to a bout of diarrhoea (not mine) and a suicide (also not mine) ended up leaving the airport and renting a car and driving to another country.
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 18:19 (eight years ago) link
Forty minutes is one of your longest? Are you including going through Customs, or just your run-of-the-mill metal x-ray deal?
Forty minutes seems about right, from my past experiences. Granted, I was sweating it out because of all my Kinder Surprises stocked with ninja stars inside, but still.
― pplains, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 18:37 (eight years ago) link
Waiting to get to the metal x-ray bit, just wending through ropes in the lobby
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 20:06 (eight years ago) link
ps i really want this thread title to be changed to "where in the world is carmen (sic)diego"
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 October 2015 00:05 (eight years ago) link
he's in airports a heck of a lot
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 28 October 2015 00:16 (eight years ago) link
I gotta go home and get a job or sell all my records soon though ;_;
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Wednesday, 28 October 2015 05:34 (eight years ago) link
My only experience of JFK was a 45 minute wait followed by an hour-long security interview, so could be worse.
All British airports are terrible in September / early October as you have a lot of new students coming for the start of term and getting the third, fourth and fifth degree from the immigration goons. I think i landed at Stansted at midnight last autumn and cleared the immigration queue at 2am.
― Al Ain Delon (ShariVari), Wednesday, 28 October 2015 09:04 (eight years ago) link
ugh even the Eurostar terminal at the Gare du Nord this weekend was like that, British immigration taking 15 minutes with one American kid who'd been in Paris for the weekend with his parents. stuck behind him I heard the whole spiel.
― droit au butt (Euler), Wednesday, 28 October 2015 09:08 (eight years ago) link
At the Denver airport w a 6 hour layover til my flight to Portland. Flight was at 7am so I stayed up the night before watching moat of TNG season 2.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 28 October 2015 16:52 (eight years ago) link
@NateSilver538 Hint: avoid Spirit Airlines, which is basically like one of those wagons on Oregon Trail after Mabel gets dysentery
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/will-your-holiday-flight-be-on-time/
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 20:51 (eight years ago) link
At LAX. Got a $75 overweight fee (for three suits I bought for jobhunting at the other end of the flight) and have been put in a middle seat for 15 hours of flying to a city currently under tornado warning.
― glandular lansbury (sic), Wednesday, 16 December 2015 05:38 (eight years ago) link
There are cats roaming about beyond the immigration point at Dhaka airport. I am significantly less annoyed about a delayed flight than i would otherwise have been. This is something other airports might want to look in to.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Saturday, 13 February 2016 02:11 (eight years ago) link
^^^^
<3 <3 <3 <3
https://s18.postimg.org/3vbk4fxfd/20161011_071349.jpg
They're incredibly boisterous - knocking over bins, leaping off the back of seats, etc - and nobody seems to have a problem with them.
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 09:14 (seven years ago) link
I'd enjoy the airport if it were full of rambunctious cats
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 14:46 (seven years ago) link
most surreal airport experience i've had was at los cabos.. bats flying around, clipping unphased employees heads... giant moths/butterflies perching on luggage...
― brimstead, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 19:50 (seven years ago) link
Bleah. Diverted right as we were about to land, delayed two hours, now I don't get back til 7 hours later.
Yay holiday travel.
― THE SKURJ OF FAKE NEWS. (kingfish), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 16:23 (seven years ago) link
SEATAC = best airport. The buskers, the cheese store, the light rail, the kinetic art, etc. Good bookstore down by terminal A. ILXORS on the shelf in the Sub Pop store.
― layda be cry (los blue jeans), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 18:47 (six years ago) link
Coffee at Beechers / Cafe Vita, breakfast sandwich, ellenos yogurt. browse through Sub Pop, stroll to gate. Every time.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 18:53 (six years ago) link
ILXORS on the shelf
good name for a new compilation
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 18:54 (six years ago) link
I really like this https://discover.stqry.com/v/travelor-karen-ganz/s/12e74c420a4f20b896973cf72b8fa85c
― layda be cry (los blue jeans), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 19:14 (six years ago) link
My small local airport only flys to Seatac so I've been there a ton in the last decade (and yet have never walked out the front door as I'm always connecting). It used to feel kind of amazing to me compared to other airports but I feel like it's been a while since its been remodeled and parts are starting to feel kind of run down and shitty. Part of this might also be that beers in other airports are novel and exotic now and Seatac only seems to have regional standards that I'm bored of. And in MSP and DEN you can roam around with a beer in some of the terminals which is great when you're trying to let a toddler run around burn off energy.
But breakfast at Anthony's, sandwiches and coffee at Beechers, noodles and a beer at Waji, the the awesome horror of the children's play area, the pearl jam poster exhibit (r.i.p. last time I was there), and Sub Pop are all awesome.
― joygoat, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 20:06 (six years ago) link
trying to navigate Seatac and find the exit felt like being stuck in House of Leaves
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 20:54 (six years ago) link
I'm glad the magician mural is still around. He's my first cousin once removed!
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 21:20 (six years ago) link
Ha i was going to mention the magician too.
― layda be cry (los blue jeans), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 04:35 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV-wgZBGfCo
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 14:47 (six years ago) link
I Love LCY
― imago, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 09:46 (six years ago) link
^would wear as a t-shirt
we kind of based our holiday destination around what was cheaply available from this airport, that is how much I love using this airport
full english breakfast for £16.95 the obvious drawback, fortunately there's a caffè nero
― imago, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 09:49 (six years ago) link
It is a terrible airport but, unfortunately, extremely convenient for Kent.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Wednesday, 6 September 2017 12:13 (six years ago) link
leaving my house -> being in Milan = less than 5 hours, it's a great airport
― imago, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 15:07 (six years ago) link
flew from Sydney to Los Angeles via Melbourne (bcz it was $900 cheaper) yesterday. Spent longer in LAX than in the two departure airports combined. A++, would be detained by CBP for hours again. Gonna suggest on Yelp that they turn down the volume on their multiple TVs showing The Game Shows Hosted By Former Cast Members Of The US Version Of Whose Line Is It Anyway? Channel though.
'Bout an hour done pass / Done watch two episodes of M*A*S*H
― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Wednesday, 6 September 2017 16:28 (six years ago) link
sic you rollin up to SEA this time?
― .oO (silby), Wednesday, 6 September 2017 16:29 (six years ago) link
fyi i was confused by the time difference - it was less than four hours
― imago, Thursday, 7 September 2017 09:59 (six years ago) link
Yeah LCY is my favourite London airport by a long way, though the company is usually unpleasant. What don't you like about it SV?
― Tim, Thursday, 7 September 2017 10:04 (six years ago) link
LCY can be pretty grim when overcrowded on a Sunday evening. The compact size and location is a bonus.
― mmmm, Thursday, 7 September 2017 10:17 (six years ago) link
Yeah it's not perfect, it does get crowded but so do all the London airports IME. City has a habit of filling up with some very shout-on-their-mobiles City types, but it's so much quicker and easier to get through than the others.
― Tim, Thursday, 7 September 2017 10:20 (six years ago) link
The location is great. I used to be able to get home in half an hour and now, from Medway, it's not much more than an hour. I hate everything else, though.
The company is definitely a factor. It's too small and too crowded. You usually can't check in more than two hours ahead of your flight and there's literally nowhere to go landside that isn't a commercial space - so if you arrive early, you have to either leave the airport or go to Pret.
When you've checked in, seating is extremely limited so gets too busy. There are no good shops. There's no business lounge (presumably because almost everyone would qualify for it) so it's perversely impossible to work at London's most business-centric airport. The last few times i've had to board basically from the central departure lounge and there are no dedicated spaces to do that, so you have had people queuing in the corridor, being told that they're blocking Boots so everyone has to turn around and queue in the other direction, etc - usually with a lot of aggro passengers.
If you need to turn up an hour before your flight, hop on the plane and be out, it's fine but it's just too small for the capacity of flights to be a pleasant place for anything else.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Thursday, 7 September 2017 11:08 (six years ago) link
This airport is a saviour compared to the horror that is Stanstead.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 7 September 2017 12:08 (six years ago) link
Where are you hanging out at Heathrow or Gatwick if you arrive early? I don't recall anything but a tiny handful of uncomfortable metal seats landside in either?
I can't imagine wanting to check in to any airport more than two hours ahead of time, particularly not one where I didn't need to check in so early, so I grant that could be annoying.
I don't think there are any good shops in any of the London airports.
Anyway, sounds like you use LCY more than I do these days - I used to use it a lot but have done so rarely over the last few years, and I've never failed to find somewhere to sit down, so I 'm sorry things have got worse. My basic point is that I hate all airports, particularly the London ones, and LCY doesn't seem any worse than Heathrow or Gatwick. And this:
If you need to turn up an hour before your flight, hop on the plane and be out, it's fine
is pretty much my ideal for what an airport should be, particularly one which is relatively well-connected to public transport.
― Tim, Thursday, 7 September 2017 12:26 (six years ago) link
Yeah I'm the one hour before person too. The idea of going into a shop in an airport for anything other than coffee is alien to me.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 7 September 2017 12:38 (six years ago) link
I see an airplane but its is made of fur and planets.
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Thursday, 7 September 2017 12:43 (six years ago) link
City is easily the best airport, the fact the bars are the areas you wait in is a bonus. I don't find braying city types any more annoying than the ultimately similar variety of human stains you have to be around at any other airport but I'd agree generally that air travel is horrible and the people around you are generally really irritating/lacking in self-awareness.
For this reason also City is best, fewer queues, less walking, no grim maze of death by commerce like they've installed at Stansted both on the way through duty-free and in the horrendous food court circle that resembles that stone they all walk around in Midnight Express, arguably the most badly and brazenly designed public space I've ever been in.
I used to avoid Gatwick given that Stansted brings me back to Liverpool St and I live in Hackney, but I'm working v close to Victoria these days so Gatwick is very handy to get to from the office. I've been hugely surprised, particularly flying Easyjet, but in general really, at how calm and easy it is, short queues, lots of space, everything working very well. They fucked Stansted so badly when they redesigned it. Security queues included.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Thursday, 7 September 2017 12:51 (six years ago) link
I'd agree generally that air travel is horrible
air travel remains amazing and thrilling
no immediate plans but surely sometime! maybe thanksgiving? and hopefully mopop/popcon next year, depending on employment & transport & such. (I'm a resident now.)
― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Thursday, 7 September 2017 18:46 (six years ago) link
oh welcome aboard, here's your red hat
― .oO (silby), Thursday, 7 September 2017 19:42 (six years ago) link
is it too late to go back home and wear a Make Australia Gay Again hat until the postal survey
― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Thursday, 7 September 2017 20:14 (six years ago) link
I flew on a gay plane up to Sydney yesterday. You could tell it was gay because of the rainbow Qantas logo.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 7 September 2017 20:48 (six years ago) link
I am in Luton Airport. For older readers, there is no sign of Lorraine Chase.
I use Luton more than any other airport -- two or three times a year at least, due mainly to it being the only "London" airport which has direct flights to Gdansk where the in-laws live apart from Stansted, which would entail not only travelling further but also using Ryan Air, which I have vowed never to use again on account of certain shyster tendencies. It's recently been voted the worst airport in the country but I can't honestly see why (NB this may be habituation).
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 10:00 (six years ago) link
I am at George H.W Bush International. I was torn for a fraction of a second between going off in search of the garish bronze statue of your man there and just heading to the Centurian Lounge. The lounge won.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 22:09 (six years ago) link
First time I ever flew to another country by myself was to Mexico via IAH. I was bored, so I figured, hey, might as well go get some pesos. Went to a window, got a lot less than I thought I would, and eventually drifted back toward my gate.
CNN was on and just so happened to be doing a Travel Tips feature, mentioning how you should never exchange currency at the airport. To illustrate the fact, they showed footage of people standing in line at the currency window I had just been to.
― pplains, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 22:23 (six years ago) link
I hadn't seen SV's cat photos! Omg. Anyway, no cats in Gatwick rn alas
― imago, Thursday, 22 March 2018 15:54 (six years ago) link
What the fuck kind of large international airport leaves the security until the gate ffs
― imago, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 18:43 (six years ago) link
Welcome to Singapore?
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 18:46 (six years ago) link
Or Berlin Tegel but that’s hardly large.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 18:47 (six years ago) link
Vienna
I don't get it. I guess it's only a real inconvenience if you want to buy duty free perfume/booze but it feels very strange and wrong, and creates bad queues
― imago, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 18:57 (six years ago) link
hmm I did not experience this last month in Vienna, it was right before the gate but isn't that normal?
try Kansas City (lol I know) for an example of this, though
― droit au butt (Euler), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 20:04 (six years ago) link
I mean I hate the new trend toward making me walk through a ridiculous mall-like thing selling nothing but perfume & Toblerone
― droit au butt (Euler), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 20:05 (six years ago) link
And milk powder (at least in Australia)
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 20:57 (six years ago) link
They are playing High Horse at Atatürk duty free.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Saturday, 5 May 2018 10:13 (five years ago) link
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 5 May 2018 10:19 (five years ago) link
There is a Sub Pop store selling vinyl in the Seatac airport now
― sleeve, Sunday, 13 May 2018 22:31 (five years ago) link
Sub Pop store has been there for a while, SeaTac is sort of relentlessly on brand for an airport
― valorous wokelord (silby), Sunday, 13 May 2018 22:38 (five years ago) link
They’ll give you a sticker every time you go in which is why I have like a dozen sub pop stickers on a guitar case
― joygoat, Monday, 14 May 2018 01:33 (five years ago) link
duly
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 June 2018 16:34 (five years ago) link
au revoir
― valorous wokelord (silby), Thursday, 7 June 2018 16:39 (five years ago) link
did you get a Sub Pop sticker tho
― we used to get our kicks reading surfing MAGAzines (sic), Thursday, 7 June 2018 18:51 (five years ago) link
now in another airport
i presume its an airport there are planes landing and taking off
no other function of a fucking airport seems present or correct
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 June 2018 22:45 (five years ago) link
I'm in an airport eating clam chowder
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 7 June 2018 22:46 (five years ago) link
also in an airport. Been here since 1pm and was supposed to depart almost two hours ago
― marcos, Thursday, 7 June 2018 23:36 (five years ago) link
from arrival thru shuttle thru security to the actual ordering and receipt of just a fucking burger pls there isnt a single person ive interacted with in this shitheap that gives any indication that they were in the job ten minutes ago
and ask anyone in seattle im a fuckin cheery cunt
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 June 2018 23:45 (five years ago) link
I'm in another airport, wish I were home
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 8 June 2018 01:28 (five years ago) link
last airport, heading home now
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 8 June 2018 04:57 (five years ago) link
Been queuing since 05:35 and I haven't reached the "End Of The Line" sign yet
― we used to get our kicks reading surfing MAGAzines (sic), Sunday, 10 June 2018 12:58 (five years ago) link
It's funny how when there's a queue, they can tell nobody has a bomb in their shoes or their phone or their laptop, without looking
― we used to get our kicks reading surfing MAGAzines (sic), Sunday, 10 June 2018 14:01 (five years ago) link
ohare, for its many faults, had a new scanner that could apparently do that
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Sunday, 10 June 2018 14:08 (five years ago) link
And yet the queue to get scanned was just as long as ever the other day.
― Tim, Sunday, 10 June 2018 16:09 (five years ago) link
one sniffer dog!
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Sunday, 10 June 2018 16:14 (five years ago) link
We were confidently assured by one of the staff assigned to watch (and fail to control) the queue that the line would most be more quickly once “the canine” arrived. Cue dog, no perceptible quickening but at least we had a doggo to look at. (We arrived a bit early to be greeted with the news that our flight was 90 minutes delayed so we weren’t too bothered about slow lines, as it goes. 5 hours in O’Hare is a hard time.)
― Tim, Sunday, 10 June 2018 16:32 (five years ago) link
Move, not most be.
― Tim, Sunday, 10 June 2018 16:33 (five years ago) link
i think
now this is open to correction mind
but i think that new rules means that they have to rotate staff between different roles every fifteen minutes for some obscure security protocol and i think
now again i didnt see this happen myself
that the sniffer dog was at one stage operating the scanner
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Sunday, 10 June 2018 16:55 (five years ago) link
At Luton Airport waiting for my bus to Oxford and discovering that the Wifi which works like a dream in Departures is totally non-functional in Arrivals! Oh and the airport outside of the security gates seems to have become completely dry --- not even any gins in tins in the WH Smith fridge anymore...
― Grandpont Genie, Sunday, 10 June 2018 17:00 (five years ago) link
creeping sharia innit
― CARL MARKS PRINCIPAL INVESTING AND ADVISORY SERVICES (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 10 June 2018 17:46 (five years ago) link
― CARL MARKS PRINCIPAL INVESTING AND ADVISORY SERVICES (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 10 June 2018 17:48 (five years ago) link
now look as ive said..
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Sunday, 10 June 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link
http://www.aveleyman.com/Gallery/2017/T/tve31645-19460803-1093.jpg
― F# A# (∞), Sunday, 10 June 2018 18:43 (five years ago) link
I'm at Geneva airport on the way to Kiev via Vienna.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Sunday, 22 July 2018 13:53 (five years ago) link
Have fun in Kiev. Have you been before?
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Sunday, 22 July 2018 14:11 (five years ago) link
Yeah but just for a day. I'm only there for a week and won't have much time for sightseeing but any pointers gratefully received.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Sunday, 22 July 2018 14:15 (five years ago) link
Has there ever been a published collection of essays / ruminations on the cosmology of airports? I would absolutely read such a thing.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 23 July 2018 16:41 (five years ago) link
http://cas.loyno.edu/english/bios/christopher-schaberg
― devops mom (silby), Monday, 23 July 2018 17:14 (five years ago) link
omfg moving to nola immediately to become buddies with that nerd
― El Tomboto, Monday, 23 July 2018 18:16 (five years ago) link
Dulles! I think I am the only person who likes this place.
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 15:09 (five years ago) link
dulles by name, dulles by nature amirite #airmiles
― a Stupendous Leg of Granite (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 15:10 (five years ago) link
I wonder what cranky Mr. Dulles would think of that Helsinki meeting.
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 15:18 (five years ago) link
I’ve only been to Dulles a few times because we lived five minutes from DCA.
― devops mom (silby), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 15:23 (five years ago) link
I'm in San Francisco Airport en route to LAX. I ate eggs benedict and am watching Mexican soccer highlights on TV
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 2 August 2018 16:31 (five years ago) link
I’m in an airplane. I’m not looking forward to the Vegas airport.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 6 August 2018 16:35 (five years ago) link
It’s not as irritating as I remember.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 6 August 2018 17:28 (five years ago) link
I am heading to Heathrow ahead of a 12 hour flight in Economy on BA so hmu if anyone is at Terminal 5 and wants to to bllitzed on cheap lounge wine.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Monday, 6 August 2018 17:30 (five years ago) link
I spoke too soon. Jesus fucking Christ, I hate this airport.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 6 August 2018 17:35 (five years ago) link
sorry about mccarran tomboto, it sucks a lot
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Monday, 6 August 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link
The Montréal airport is pretty nice!
― calstars, Sunday, 19 August 2018 17:02 (five years ago) link
In Manchester airport nice and early, find my flight to Istanbul has already been delayed meaning the connection time in Ataturk is down to 1 hour which is just not what I want. Have a feeling I might make it to Addis but my luggage won’t. Too early for a beer as well.
On the plus side I’m rediscovering the ‘73 Grateful Dead shows.
― Ctrl+Alt+Del in Poughkeepsie (fionnland), Friday, 7 September 2018 07:45 (five years ago) link
funnily enough I also once had a delayed arrival at ataturk on a journey between manchester and addis and my bags were late (though I was going the other way). very jealous though
― ogmor, Friday, 7 September 2018 08:51 (five years ago) link
Too early for a beer as well.I assume this is a business hours problem and not some awful self-inflicted ethical issue.
― Paleo Weltschmerz (El Tomboto), Friday, 7 September 2018 11:47 (five years ago) link
I assumed the latter
― calstars, Friday, 7 September 2018 14:42 (five years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/07/denver-airport-construction-conspiracy-lizard-people
― A Box of After Dinner Comics Shipped to Your House Each Month (seandalai), Saturday, 8 September 2018 18:13 (five years ago) link
Oh I had to technically be able to respond to some emails in my layover. Didn't happen anyway because I had to ride shotgun on an otherwise empty passenger bus, speeding round ataturk to make it to the flight desk, where I found they had already wrote off the chances of me getting there on time and sold the tickets on. They did get me on the flight but my luggage didn't have a chance.
Finished reading Zama on my flight and the writing style is just great. Need to see the film again to confirm but I think Martel was inspired in what she took from the novel and what she added in. I suppose the film already stands strong in its own right. If the blu ray has extended scenes, which I sort of doubt I would be very interested to watch them.
My copy of Cronenberg on Cronenberg got chored while I was at the toilet in a cafe, I found that kind of funny because it's so niche but whatever. Running a bit short on reading material now but have a couple history books to read.
Anyway my airbnb host is fab, and I've been happy to extend my time in Addis and my luggage has arrived. New Year's Eve party in Meskel square last night was amazing too. Tomorrow is north to the stone cut churches in Lalibela.
Happy Ethiopian New Year everybody!
― Ctrl+Alt+Del in Poughkeepsie (fionnland), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 15:54 (five years ago) link
My flight from SEA to BOS is in 12 hours, excited to possibly have my plans for the next week severely disrupted by Hurricane Florence.
― faculty w1fe (silby), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 16:15 (five years ago) link
(I'm not in the airport yet)
how about now
― ▫◌▫ (sic), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 01:43 (five years ago) link
On the train to the airport!
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 01:48 (five years ago) link
am looking forward to reading Zama. happy new year fionnland!
― Dan S, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 01:50 (five years ago) link
I’m at the airport now
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 02:33 (five years ago) link
Sea-Tac airport, 8:46pm: an Amazon employee is doing work.
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 03:46 (five years ago) link
Very glad to not be going anywhere near an airport for three whole months.
― A Box of After Dinner Comics Shipped to Your House Each Month (seandalai), Saturday, 15 September 2018 00:16 (five years ago) link
In the BA Concorde Lounge ahead of a First Class flight to HK feeling slightly better about all the long haul economy flights that earned the air miles I am cashing in.
― ShariVari, Thursday, 29 November 2018 18:20 (five years ago) link
was meant to be flying back from nine hours in Boise at 9pm
― sans lep (sic), Saturday, 15 December 2018 05:15 (five years ago) link
this got pushed to 9:55then the incoming plane we were meant to be getting on suffered turbulence, and we were told that by 10:30pm we’d have more information
― sans lep (sic), Saturday, 15 December 2018 05:17 (five years ago) link
that plane has been too damaged to fly, and we might be getting on a flight that’s due to land at 10:28, but obv won’t have any updates until after it gets onto the ground.
― sans lep (sic), Saturday, 15 December 2018 05:18 (five years ago) link
Not sure if I’m on the second or third loop of the Christmas music playing. They do include Baby It’s Cold Outside though.
― sans lep (sic), Saturday, 15 December 2018 05:50 (five years ago) link
It’s 11:16 and we’re on a plane but they have to de-ice the wings, and the crew aren’t allowed to stand up during the flight
― sans lep (sic), Saturday, 15 December 2018 06:16 (five years ago) link
they gave you a fair musical warning about the ice on the wings
― estela, Saturday, 15 December 2018 09:12 (five years ago) link
I really couldn’t stay.
― sans lep (sic), Saturday, 15 December 2018 09:33 (five years ago) link
I work at Gatwick so I'm usually in an airport. But I'm not usually locked in a stockroom/office cos somebody with a knife is wandering around airside with a knife!
Came out of the lifts at around 2 am which are located just thru security with my trolley of stock and I could see the backs of about six security people running towards the Dept lounge. I figured that a flight had been cancelled and some passengers were refusing to leave (this happens quite often). Went into our shop to ask the other replenners if they knew what was going on but before I could say anything I heard a commotion in the corridor so went back out to have a look and saw security running back towards the staff entrance shouting at the staff at the body scanners to clear out. Looked to my left and saw some guy walking down the corridor with a big fuck off kitchen knife in his left hand shouting " which of you pussy holes wants it?"
Decided I didn' t in fact 'want it' so ducked back into the shop and let the 3 colleagues there know and the supervisor led us to the stockroom which has a keypad lock and we stayed there. Don't know if one of the chef's at the airport had just had an episode or something but it was p scary. He was roaming for a while cos a couple of our colleagues who were working in other shops joined us about ten mins later and said they' d just seen the guy as well. After another ten mins security came by and said the incident had been dealt with.
― oscar bravo, Monday, 3 June 2019 08:44 (four years ago) link
fuck
― godfellaz (darraghmac), Monday, 3 June 2019 08:48 (four years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jun/03/man-carrying-knives-at-gatwick-airport-shot-with-taser-say-police
― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Monday, 3 June 2019 14:03 (four years ago) link
lol nice to see gatwick pretending that dude approached staff entrance where officers then tazed him. what actually happened was security let him walk through staff entrance (i don't blame them he had 2 huge knives and security are unarmed and don't have stab vests) dude then proceeded to wander around dept lounge threatening shop workers and cleaners before eventually making his way back to the staff entrance where the police arrived and tased him.
― oscar bravo, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 08:35 (four years ago) link
normally loathe getting to the airport early but the power went out at my house during a storm around 5:30 this morning so it’s kind of better here? the a/c works, at leastnow to kill an hour and a half until the flight boards
― untuned mass damper (mh), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 13:20 (four years ago) link
http://imgur.com/qgJAss7.jpg
http://imgur.com/tn3vAkz.jpg
let's see if this workstwo airport lunches today
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 08:04 (four years ago) link
incheon, dunkin donuts cubano and cokenarita, hayashi rice and melon soda float
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 08:05 (four years ago) link
Narita ftw
I will be at both Narita and Haneda on friday.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 09:50 (four years ago) link
i'd take haneda over narita any day but i've had to use narita already twice this month for the tokyo to beijing through incheon flight (and tokyo to xi'an through incheon).
incheon has jamba juice and quiznos which is novel coming from japan
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 14:23 (four years ago) link
I have the misfortune of landing at Narita and flying out of Haneda, no biggie, just 2 hours on the Keisei and Keikyu thinking about what to get for lunch.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 20:46 (four years ago) link
dylannn OTM. Narita is only convenient if you have in-laws in Chibaken.
I'd even take KIX over NRT.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 25 August 2019 18:41 (four years ago) link
when i went to japan last month i flew into haneda and was impressed with how quickly everyone was processed through customs and was still treated with more dignity there than by cbp in the us.
― Carisis LaVerted (m bison), Sunday, 25 August 2019 18:46 (four years ago) link
I’m thinking my flight tomorrow is one where I’ll go through US customs in Canada, which always seems a little funny but whatever it took a lot longer to buy my bus pass at trudeau/montreal than it did to go through canadian customs!
― untuned mass damper (mh), Sunday, 25 August 2019 20:01 (four years ago) link
us customs fucking sucks they srsly do not gaf
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 August 2019 20:45 (four years ago) link
^^
I'm a white male born-and-bred American and still feel like there's gonna be a boxcar waiting for me at the end of the line.
― pplains, Sunday, 25 August 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link
had my first experience using global entry last week, was glad I got it, it made US customs a lot less painful
― Dan S, Sunday, 25 August 2019 21:35 (four years ago) link
i went throigh us customs yesterdaygranted 5 planes unloaded at the same time but still - we had 4, wait no he left so 3, oop he left now too so make that 2 inspectors operating for half the entire hall ... stood in that godawful room for 90 minutes before passing throughassclownsalso they’ve overhauled every nook & cranny of that airport EXCEPT for the customs area. except for the passport kiosks it’s exactly the same as it was in 2002 when i immigrated. hated it then, hate it now
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 August 2019 21:42 (four years ago) link
At Toronto en route to Montreal from Glasgow and seem to have developed a new allergy and am sneezing like crazy
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Friday, 27 September 2019 20:16 (four years ago) link
the allergy is probably to airports
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Friday, 27 September 2019 20:18 (four years ago) link
middle of the country has one of the worst seasonal allergy peaks I've experienced in recent yearshopefully it'll be much better in montreal!
― mh, Friday, 27 September 2019 20:19 (four years ago) link
I got tested for allergies recently and only reacted to tree and grass pollen (which should be done by now). Confounding and v annoying.
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Friday, 27 September 2019 20:44 (four years ago) link
I was in Montreal a month or so back and while I was gone, ragweed season started back home. Getting off the plane was an instant sneezing thing
― mh, Friday, 27 September 2019 23:05 (four years ago) link
My wife just suffered a 5 1/2 hour delay for a 1 1/2 hour flight.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 27 September 2019 23:16 (four years ago) link
Coulda walked.
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Friday, 27 September 2019 23:30 (four years ago) link
she just landed, 7 hours after her original arrival time.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 28 September 2019 00:25 (four years ago) link
I think I was delayed something like fourteen hours for a flight from Chicago to Des Moines once. It was “just another 45 minutes!” up until there were no more flights for the day and we were bumped to 8am
― mh, Saturday, 28 September 2019 15:42 (four years ago) link
yesterday someone trying to check thru security with a tree branch in hand. when approached and asked why the guy said it was part of the tree his nephew was found hanging from and he was taking it home to the parents.
― oscar bravo, Thursday, 14 November 2019 16:16 (four years ago) link
did... did they let him take it on the plane
― actor Robert de Niro disguised as an Uzbek homeopath (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 14 November 2019 16:17 (four years ago) link
no but they said they'd see if he could recheck his bags to put the branch in, but it was a p long piece of branch so i doubt it fitted i don't know what happened in the end just overheard the initial exchanges and felt bad i heard that much tbh
― oscar bravo, Thursday, 14 November 2019 16:20 (four years ago) link
― actor Robert de Niro disguised as an Uzbek homeopath (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 14 November 2019 16:22 (four years ago) link
xxpost For the sake of the parents he almost certainly failed to consult, I hope not.
― Yul, Tied: A Celebration of Brynner in Bondage (Old Lunch), Thursday, 14 November 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
Sitting by a window overlooking a runway. A plane takes off. Older Scottish man and I turn to look at it at the same time. “Off you go, my son,” the man mutters at the plane with quiet enjoyment.
― gyac, Monday, 2 December 2019 14:27 (four years ago) link
older scottish man otm
― A victim managed to capture evidence of the gimp (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 2 December 2019 14:28 (four years ago) link
Just landed at John Wayne airport aka SNA
― joygoat, Wednesday, 11 December 2019 18:57 (four years ago) link
delete the De Subjectivisten lounge
― insecurity bear (sic), Wednesday, 11 December 2019 19:02 (four years ago) link
Glasgow airport - fuck your bus stands! Only one of them clearly labelled and the rest not visible from outside the airport. Also a fella sent me in the wrong direction.
― steer karma (gyac), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 18:05 (four years ago) link
How have I spent a night sleeping upright in metal chairs in the domestic St Petersburg terminal, and yet this is still the coldest airport I’ve ever been in my life?
― steer karma (gyac), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 18:13 (four years ago) link
glasgow airport is shite, right enough
― the main character Cooly and his fart attack (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 18:20 (four years ago) link
Thought this bump would be about Moka doing the tracks rollout from the airport check-in.
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 23:26 (four years ago) link
Looking forward to sixteen hours in Economy to attend an event that has already been cancelled and switched to web conference due to fears about coronavirus.
― ShariVari, Sunday, 2 February 2020 11:27 (four years ago) link
Just going for the airmiles then? ;)
― opden gnash (imago), Sunday, 2 February 2020 11:44 (four years ago) link
Air miles in economy aren’t worth anything, sadly.
They will apparently find me something to do when i get there.
― ShariVari, Sunday, 2 February 2020 11:46 (four years ago) link
will it be "come straight back"
― mark s, Sunday, 2 February 2020 11:49 (four years ago) link
duty free secret shopper imo
― opden gnash (imago), Sunday, 2 February 2020 11:58 (four years ago) link
^^ some new inspiration for the perfume thread perchance!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 2 February 2020 12:00 (four years ago) link
I’d generally say I would never stoop to wearing perfume found at airports but I am passing through Doha so perhaps they have the good stuff.
I’m going to Bali and afaik there have been no cases of coronavirus at all in Indonesia so far but two thirds of the conference attendees are from Australia and the rest are from various parts of Asia so there is probably a perceived risk much stronger than any actual risk.
― ShariVari, Sunday, 2 February 2020 12:40 (four years ago) link
On my way to the airport. I'm wondering how apocalyptic it'll be.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Friday, 13 March 2020 06:38 (four years ago) link
Feel you might be disappointed if the airports here are anything to go by these days. Unless you really sense the coming apocalypse in everything being near-empty and eerily quiet? But do share if everything's ablaze (and pick a nice bm record to accompany the scene)! Bon chance, man.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 13 March 2020 08:02 (four years ago) link
Thanks! I'll find out in a few minutes… But yeah, it's way likelier to be a whimper rather than a bang, as ever. With a bit of luck our plane will empty a swell.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Friday, 13 March 2020 08:05 (four years ago) link
Safe flight, pom.
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Friday, 13 March 2020 08:27 (four years ago) link
Thanks, gyac. Airport seems as packed as ever, there are just more face masks than usual. Kind of disappointed tbh.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Friday, 13 March 2020 09:01 (four years ago) link
hope all goes well pom
― mark s, Friday, 13 March 2020 12:25 (four years ago) link
just watch out for this guy
https://i.imgur.com/F3x22v1.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/klxw8xk.jpg
― pplains, Friday, 13 March 2020 13:25 (four years ago) link
HI DERE
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 July 2021 14:58 (two years ago) link
fuckers put my luggage on the other plane
― burly crafty woodsman (James Harden) vs tall ethereal phantom (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 3 July 2021 01:34 (two years ago) link
You have just experienced The Return to Normal ©
― it is to laugh, like so, ha! (Aimless), Saturday, 3 July 2021 02:05 (two years ago) link
sitting up late to wait for my luggage to be delivered after getting up early so i won't miss my flight: that's the Delta Differencefuckers ain't even coming by the look of it
― burly crafty woodsman (James Harden) vs tall ethereal phantom (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 3 July 2021 04:06 (two years ago) link
life finds a way
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 3 July 2021 04:17 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-agnCrhaMmE
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 3 July 2021 11:01 (two years ago) link
they got me the bag like 36 hours later after multiple fuckups, wheeeeee
― burly crafty woodsman (James Harden) vs tall ethereal phantom (forksclovetofu), Monday, 5 July 2021 16:44 (two years ago) link
I'm in an airport for the first time in ages. S'weird, everything seems back to normal except the masks.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 11 July 2021 13:58 (two years ago) link
Uh I’m at Washington National and there are a lot of unmasked people despite the rules.
― Bo Burzum (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 16:11 (two years ago) link
probably senators
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 20:01 (two years ago) link
it's been a while
― in a bar, under the (seandalai), Thursday, 19 August 2021 15:07 (two years ago) link
At BWI with people eating all around me and one woman with a Green Bay Packers sweatshirt (so you know she’s unvaxxed) defiantly unmasked.
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 21:57 (two years ago) link
Good 'ol BWI. Stay safe.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 23:54 (two years ago) link
I traveled from BWI a week before Thanksgiving and then came back on Dec 11th and it was the nearest I'd ever come to hardcore holiday flying, and YIKES. Sending good energy to you and anyone doing this this year
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 23:55 (two years ago) link
Thanks
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 23 December 2021 03:24 (two years ago) link
Haven’t flown since 2018, totally insane that all these people are not wearing masks
― poppin' debussy (the table is the table), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 23:07 (one year ago) link
yeah I mean like, people get sick at the airport anyway
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 23:51 (one year ago) link
the airport is the only place where I see white people from the suburbs or whatever and I hate all of them so much
yeah I mean like, people get sick at the airport _anyway_
― poppin' debussy (the table is the table), Thursday, 17 November 2022 01:49 (one year ago) link
were they classy, icky, or dudes?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 17 November 2022 03:19 (one year ago) link
People People who need people Are the luckiest people in the world
― calstars, Thursday, 17 November 2022 03:46 (one year ago) link
Living in London has really taken any affection I had for airports out of me lol. The standardization is a bummer too, like every airport in Europe now having that damn duty free shopping corridor you need to go through.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 17 November 2022 10:54 (one year ago) link
My flight was booked for 6am so I stayed up and left the house at 3:15am. Flight was changed to 9:45am so I tried napping supine on the banks of chairs. It was phenomenally uncomfortable!
― french testicle (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 31 January 2023 14:12 (one year ago) link
Nobody looks cool going through TSA screening. This, I suddenly realize, is my biggest issue with flying: I only like things that look cool
― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Thursday, 22 June 2023 08:44 (nine months ago) link
There’s a Sammy’s here (as in Hagar). Do I go for some tequila?
― calstars, Friday, 1 September 2023 00:21 (seven months ago) link
does a Hagar shit in the woods? hell yes brother
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 September 2023 00:24 (seven months ago) link
It’s a good tequila and I think you deserve it. Try not to show up in a viral video later.
― Josefa, Friday, 1 September 2023 00:30 (seven months ago) link
I was desperate enough to hear a follow up to 1984 that I gave 5150 another chance last weekend after nearly 30 years of abstinance. Starting with "Dreams", i made it as far as "reach for the golden ring" on my first attempt before switching it off.
The second time through was unbearably sad, though. It's the optimism for a future that never materialized, where you know you're watching a tragedy but the actors still think it's another kind of play. Part of it is def that there's a certain brand of corporate modernism preserved in amber, like they've ditched the laser grid of 1984, put on a blazer and stepped into the Frasurbane Mcdonalds. But also the energy of a new creative partnership that seems full of promise but already peaked.
Oh, Sammmy, I'd love a tequila TY for offering.
― Deflatormouse, Friday, 1 September 2023 00:40 (seven months ago) link