Aw poor Rupert.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Thursday, 12 July 2012 22:21 (eleven years ago) link
i'm in an airport
― 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