i'm in an airport

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

Thought this bump would be about Moka doing the tracks rollout from the airport check-in.

Looking forward to sixteen hours in Economy to attend an event that has already been cancelled and switched to web conference due to fears about coronavirus.

Just going for the airmiles then? ;)

Air miles in economy aren’t worth anything, sadly.

They will apparently find me something to do when i get there.

will it be "come straight back"

duty free secret shopper imo

^^ some new inspiration for the perfume thread perchance!

I’d generally say I would never stoop to wearing perfume found at airports but I am passing through Doha so perhaps they have the good stuff.

I’m going to Bali and afaik there have been no cases of coronavirus at all in Indonesia so far but two thirds of the conference attendees are from Australia and the rest are from various parts of Asia so there is probably a perceived risk much stronger than any actual risk.

On my way to the airport. I'm wondering how apocalyptic it'll be.

Feel you might be disappointed if the airports here are anything to go by these days. Unless you really sense the coming apocalypse in everything being near-empty and eerily quiet? But do share if everything's ablaze (and pick a nice bm record to accompany the scene)! Bon chance, man.

Thanks! I'll find out in a few minutes… But yeah, it's way likelier to be a whimper rather than a bang, as ever. With a bit of luck our plane will empty a swell.

Safe flight, pom.

Thanks, gyac. Airport seems as packed as ever, there are just more face masks than usual. Kind of disappointed tbh.

hope all goes well pom

just watch out for this guy

https://i.imgur.com/F3x22v1.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/klxw8xk.jpg

HI DERE

fuckers put my luggage on the other plane

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