i'm in an airport

I see an airplane but its is made of fur and planets.

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.

I'd agree generally that air travel is horrible

air travel remains amazing and thrilling

sic you rollin up to SEA this time?

no immediate plans but surely sometime! maybe thanksgiving? and hopefully mopop/popcon next year, depending on employment & transport & such. (I'm a resident now.)

oh welcome aboard, here's your red hat

is it too late to go back home and wear a Make Australia Gay Again hat until the postal survey

I flew on a gay plane up to Sydney yesterday. You could tell it was gay because of the rainbow Qantas logo.

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).

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