Adding indoor terminal + redoing the runway (lots of cracks + potholes) which was shut down for a few days.
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One of the most interesting flights I’ve ever had happened this past Saturday flying from Norfolk to Atlanta. I fly a lot for work. Delta disciple. We are ready to leave. Cockpit door is closed. My wife and I upgraded to First Class for this leg bc it was very cheap points upgrade. I look to my left as the flight attendant is passing by and a 60-year old lady says in a panic to the flight attendant: “Excuse me! Excuse me! I have an emergency!!” with her hands trembling like crazy. She says something else to the attendant i couldn’t make out and proceeds to run to the bathroom at the front of the plane with her hand planted squarely on her behind – the universal sign for “i just shit myself”
The attendants are now stirring and next thing we know the doors are disarmed and the gate agent comes on the flight to help with matters. There was an older guy sitting next to her who seemed to be traveling with her - i thought it was her husband but my wife believes it was her co-worker since they were wearing work-logoed apparel. Anyway, this guy was an absolute saint who helped out the crew and was somehow able to retrieve a pair of shorts for this poor lady. They had a cleaning guy come on board to clean the lavatory after she had her episode and after a couple more brief trips to the bathroom for this lady - we were on our way with approximately a 33 minute delay.
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That’s enough poop talk for today on The Refuge
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Shitty situation for all involved.
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Poop or no poop, I have always been “anti sitting next to a coworker on a same flight for a business trip”. I guess in this case it’d be different since I’m not missing out on first class seats, but even then I’d be instituting a “no talking shop” rule on the flight.
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Back at BWI.
C terminal isn’t as bad, but to be fair I am pretty certain I’m still drunk from last night. Shoutout to Pussers.
70* MD days and the Blue Angels rock.
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I just read a couple of stories about this and my absolute favorite part is that these shitheels aren’t even Delta employees.
No, they’re contract vendors from a company called Unifli. You see, no one actually hires anyone anymore. They just farm shit out to these shitty companies and pay them next to nothing. Then, when they do something horrible, there’s a buffer.
“Oh man we’re totes sorry about that, but it’s not us! It’s this vendor!”
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I remember the first summer back home from college I bumped into an old classmate at the bar and asked what he was up to.
“I’m a bag smasher.”
“A what?”
“A bag smasher. At the airport.”
“A bag smasher? Like luggage?”
“Yea, that’s what we call ourselves.”
I’ve added extra padding to my travel clubs ever since.
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Talk about taking pride in your job! lol
Yeah, I have a pretty good system that has worked for the past few years: take the driver head off, stiff arm, wrap the entire area in extra golf towels, move the putter to the middle of the bag. If you have some extra clothes like jackets that can help add padding around the bag too just mind the 50#. I actually put my scuba wetsuit in my golf bag this last trip for padding 
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Don’t forget that dirty laundry is a great source of padding on the way home from a golf trip. You’re going to have less weight in golf stuff on the way home anyways from losing golf balls, so more clothes can go in the travel bag.
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Killing time at gate at Atlanta-Hartsfield waiting on my flight which is after flight to Evansville currently at gate….plane boards all zones, calls for 2 passengers on wait list, announces final boarding, and worker leaves desk, crew closes door and pulls away from jetway……lady who had been sitting 15 feet from me for at least 45 minutes stands up and asks if they started boarding flight to Evansville???
TLDR: lady spaces out and misses flight from gate she’s been at for 45 minutes. With no headphones in.
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Would be so sick if a standby employee got her seat.
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Just parachuting in to say Love Field is the GOAT.
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I did something like this myself once.
I had meetings in Edmonton end early and so I was at Edmonton airport at about noon for a 5 pm flight to Toronto. I was with a co-worker who was flying to Vancouver. There were flights every two hours to Toronto and, as I got through security, the 1 o’clock flight was boarding. That desk was crowded but the desk at the next gate was where the 3 pm flight would be so I went up to the agent there. No problem she said “I can get you on this flight”. Two hours saved.
I went to meet my co-worker in Chili’s and ordered food and a drink. A few minutes later, I began to wonder if “this flight” meant the flight that was boarding or the flight at the desk she was standing at. Checked my boarding pass and, sure enough, I had a seat on the 1 o’clock. Told my co-worker to pay for my food and ran to the gate. Which was now closed.
Found the same agent who wondered where I’d gone (apparently they’d called my name and, having just changed to that flight, couldn’t understand where I’d gone). I explained my confusion and the agent was actually very understanding and, long story long, I got on the 3 o’clock.
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I missed a flight while sipping on wine at Cru Wine Bar in the Denver Airport B concourse. For some reason I had landing time in my head as departure time. When I finally put it together the plane had already left. So I just had another wine and looked for another flight.
It was to SFO, so there were a few flights later and they put me on one of those.
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Oh wow I just landed there from Amsterdam at 2:45. Was crazy.
KLM was great. I recommend the premium comfort which is almost like domestic first class. Was not cheap (4200 round trip) but first class with pods was 10k and I wasn’t going to be able to expense that.
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Very nice! Yeah Friday afternoon on a holiday weekend probably didn’t help but I was pleasantly surprised with how efficient the whole operation was. Shoutout to Lufthansa for being one of the few intl carriers that allows TSA Pre, game changer
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