i'm in an airport

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.

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.

I hadn't seen SV's cat photos! Omg. Anyway, no cats in Gatwick rn alas

What the fuck kind of large international airport leaves the security until the gate ffs

Welcome to Singapore?

Or Berlin Tegel but that’s hardly large.

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

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

I mean I hate the new trend toward making me walk through a ridiculous mall-like thing selling nothing but perfume & Toblerone

And milk powder (at least in Australia)

They are playing High Horse at Atatürk duty free.

Nice

There is a Sub Pop store selling vinyl in the Seatac airport now

Sub Pop store has been there for a while, SeaTac is sort of relentlessly on brand for an airport

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

duly

au revoir

did you get a Sub Pop sticker tho

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

I'm in an airport eating clam chowder

also in an airport. Been here since 1pm and was supposed to depart almost two hours ago

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

I'm in another airport, wish I were home

last airport, heading home now

Been queuing since 05:35 and I haven't reached the "End Of The Line" sign yet

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

ohare, for its many faults, had a new scanner that could apparently do that

And yet the queue to get scanned was just as long as ever the other day.

one sniffer dog!

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.)

Move, not most be.

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

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...

creeping sharia innit

that the sniffer dog was at one stage operating the scanner

now look as ive said..

http://www.aveleyman.com/Gallery/2017/T/tve31645-19460803-1093.jpg

I'm at Geneva airport on the way to Kiev via Vienna.

Have fun in Kiev. Have you been before?

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.

Has there ever been a published collection of essays / ruminations on the cosmology of airports? I would absolutely read such a thing.

http://cas.loyno.edu/english/bios/christopher-schaberg

omfg moving to nola immediately to become buddies with that nerd

Dulles! I think I am the only person who likes this place.

dulles by name, dulles by nature amirite #airmiles

I wonder what cranky Mr. Dulles would think of that Helsinki meeting.

I’ve only been to Dulles a few times because we lived five minutes from DCA.

I'm in San Francisco Airport en route to LAX. I ate eggs benedict and am watching Mexican soccer highlights on TV

I’m in an airplane. I’m not looking forward to the Vegas airport.

It’s not as irritating as I remember.