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.)
― 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 (six years ago) link
Nice
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 5 May 2018 10:19 (six years ago) link
There is a Sub Pop store selling vinyl in the Seatac airport now
― sleeve, Sunday, 13 May 2018 22:31 (six 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 (six 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 (six years ago) link
duly
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 June 2018 16:34 (six years ago) link
au revoir
― valorous wokelord (silby), Thursday, 7 June 2018 16:39 (six 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 (six 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 (six years ago) link
I'm in an airport eating clam chowder
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 7 June 2018 22:46 (six 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 (six 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 (six years ago) link
I'm in another airport, wish I were home
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 8 June 2018 01:28 (six years ago) link
last airport, heading home now
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 8 June 2018 04:57 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six years ago) link
one sniffer dog!
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Sunday, 10 June 2018 16:14 (six 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 (six years ago) link
Move, not most be.
― Tim, Sunday, 10 June 2018 16:33 (six 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 (six 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 (six years ago) link
creeping sharia innit
― CARL MARKS PRINCIPAL INVESTING AND ADVISORY SERVICES (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 10 June 2018 17:46 (six years ago) link
― CARL MARKS PRINCIPAL INVESTING AND ADVISORY SERVICES (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 10 June 2018 17:48 (six years ago) link
now look as ive said..
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Sunday, 10 June 2018 18:22 (six years ago) link
http://www.aveleyman.com/Gallery/2017/T/tve31645-19460803-1093.jpg
― F# A# (∞), Sunday, 10 June 2018 18:43 (six 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