Just read a little about Sen McCarron… bad guy
Seems like they made the right call.
I listened to the pod and found it enjoyable and informative. I have one bone to pick - Philly is not a greyhound bus stop. If you’ve been to the greyhound bus stops in Topeka, St. Louis, or Columbia, MO, you’d understand. I didn’t realize there is a bad part of Topeka, but there is!
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I can’t speak for the rest of the airport, but I had a brief layover and stayed in Terminal F, it was fine. Nothing mindblowing but it looked decently well kept and was spacious enough. Didn’t remind me of a bus station
There are a few really bad parts of Topeka. I learned the hard way that I lived in one such part when my home was burglarized by three armed men who took my TVs and laptop one week before law school finals.
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The Amex lounge in Philly is fuego. Rest of airport is hit or miss. Baggage claim/ground transportation is a disgrace.
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Glad I was able to avoid that then, seems like you have to take a bus to F or walk 30 minutes. Not ideal.
The Philly airport is bad. But it’s not in a literal circle of hell like some greyhound bus stations are. They are somehow even worse than you’d imagine.
I couldn’t help but laugh at the number of times the word disgrace was used in the podcast. It sounded like it was warranted too.
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I always looked at CLT through rose colored glasses while I lived there.
After being away for several years and seeing it this morning, it stinks. All criticisms of it are valid.
Its saving grace is the craft beer store inside security. They sell local beer in cans to take on your journey.
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its the black tar heroin of travel - there’s no going back
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F is actually sick to fly into but a bit of a pain to fly out of.
Yeah I can see that if I had to arrive at the airport by car. Luckily I flew in and out of F on about a 45 minute layover so didn’t have to move around the airport at all.
The first thing my kids told me when they turned 13 was that they needed TSA-pre. True story.
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Last weekend was an interesting travel weekend to say the least. Flew up Wednesday the 29th to Fargo to meet some friends. After a few days of good old adult fun, the plan was to take one of the two nonstops on UA back to ORD, with two AA nonstops and 4 DL flights to MSP as a backup Sunday. Saturday comes, one of my friends was supposed to fly back to AUS on AA, only he discovers his flight has been canceled. I looked further and AA canceled everything in and out of FAR for the whole weekend. And UA canceled one of the two Sunday flights. And DL one of their flights. The earliest my friend could get out of FAR on AA was Thursday. They tried to blame it on weather, which was mostly bullshit - it was cold, but visibility was good, no cloud layer, and no fresh snow during our stay.
Anyways, my friend found a flight out of MSP on WN Sunday morning. And seeing my backup plans dwindling, I went in on a $150 car rental to drive to the cities a Saturday afternoon.
Sunday morning, after dropping my friend off for his flight, I would try standby on one of the 3 10 am ish nonstops to ORD on AA, DL, or UA. By the time I got to the airport though, AA and DL canceled their flights and UA was 90 minutes late due to late inbound from ORD. That’s when I discovered another flight that was supposed to leave at noon on Saturday had been delayed 22 hours partly due to a decent snowstorm that hit ORD on Saturday. Was waiting on new crew to deadhead in on the late ORD inbound causing delay to Sunday’s 10 am flight. Because it was a day late, booking systems were missing out on it, and there were seats open. The crew arrived, only to discover that the 2 pilots and one flight attendant was there, but the other one was not. Turns out the other flight attendant quit the company and didn’t bother telling anyone. So that flight canceled. But, I asked the captain if I could catch a ride on the repo to Chicago (employees can sometimes do this), and he was agreed. So I got to ride home sitting in first chatting with the still employed flight attendant. Lucky to have made it home at a reasonable time on Sunday.
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I’ve had some truly fucked up situations with the airlines, this is top-tier bad. Glad you made it home ok and the pilot was chill.
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Have had the absolute privilege of calling Singapore Changi my home airport for 21 years. Truly the best out there and has set a completely unrealistically high bar for all others to attempt to reach (HK comes closest). Really hope the boys make it out there one day!!
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Airport to add. Chattanooga - really enjoy it.
Like 4 gates. Multiple direct flights to major airports
1 restaurant outside security and 1 inside.
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Flew United today for the first time in years. DEN>ORD. ORD>SXM. Got a 100% lost bag rate so far. Color me unimpressed.
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I forgot to add about MSP last weekend. I noticed there was a restaurant with a PGA of America theme (not a PGATour shop). Anyone seen anything like that elsewhere?
There’s a PGA Tour Grill at LAS.
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