i'm in an airport

am looking forward to reading Zama. happy new year fionnland!

I’m at the airport now

Sea-Tac airport, 8:46pm: an Amazon employee is doing work.

Very glad to not be going anywhere near an airport for three whole months.

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.

was meant to be flying back from nine hours in Boise at 9pm

this got pushed to 9:55

then 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

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.

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.

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

they gave you a fair musical warning about the ice on the wings

I really couldn’t stay.

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.

fuck

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jun/03/man-carrying-knives-at-gatwick-airport-shot-with-taser-say-police

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.

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 least

now to kill an hour and a half until the flight boards

http://imgur.com/qgJAss7.jpg

http://imgur.com/tn3vAkz.jpg

let's see if this works
two airport lunches today

incheon, dunkin donuts cubano and coke
narita, hayashi rice and melon soda float

Narita ftw

I will be at both Narita and Haneda on friday.

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

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.

dylannn OTM. Narita is only convenient if you have in-laws in Chibaken.

I'd even take KIX over NRT.

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.

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!

us customs fucking sucks
they srsly do not gaf

^^

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.

had my first experience using global entry last week, was glad I got it, it made US customs a lot less painful

i went throigh us customs yesterday

granted 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 through

assclowns

also 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

At Toronto en route to Montreal from Glasgow and seem to have developed a new allergy and am sneezing like crazy

the allergy is probably to airports

middle of the country has one of the worst seasonal allergy peaks I've experienced in recent years
hopefully it'll be much better in montreal!

I got tested for allergies recently and only reacted to tree and grass pollen (which should be done by now). Confounding and v annoying.

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

My wife just suffered a 5 1/2 hour delay for a 1 1/2 hour flight.

Coulda walked.

she just landed, 7 hours after her original arrival time.

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

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.

did... did they let him take it on the plane

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

o_O

xxpost For the sake of the parents he almost certainly failed to consult, I hope not.

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.

older scottish man otm

Just landed at John Wayne airport aka SNA

delete the De Subjectivisten lounge

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.

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?

glasgow airport is shite, right enough