This would be a lot cooler if the pilot was on glide slope.
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I will submit the following.
In the realm of smaller (okay very small) airports.
GSP is excellent - lots of space. Fast food you actually want to eat, good bar with okay-ish food. Open terminals. An actual outside space you’d want to spend time in.
Savannah is perhaps the worst airport experience imaginable. 45+ minutes from the islands, cramped food options, uncomfortable all around. Makes no sense for a place that is a tourist hub. Especially since this is supposedly also servicing HHI…
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If you live near a US-Canada border crossing, it’s much better to get NEXUS. You get precheck, global entry, and NEXUS for $50. It requires an in-person interview with both a US and Canadian border officer which is why it’s limited to those locations. I don’t know how much covid has screwed up that application process though.
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HHH now has multiple daily routes to major hubs.
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Year-round, or just during the peak season?
Interviews for it have been postponed on-and-off throughout COVID based on the emails I’ve been getting. Also it was several years ago when I first applied so I might be wrong / things might’ve changed, but I believe it’s an interview with a U.S. or Canadian officer, not both.
I think it’s year round now, at least out of CLT and ATL
@Cody my only gripe with RDU is the $85 they charged me for 2 double RBVs last time I flew through there. Otherwise a lovely small airport
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So true. Saves mega hours.
Gotta give a shout-out to Bangor on the very small side of things. Just so quick and easy. Had one of these coin things I must’ve dumped serious $$ in as a kid.
Also, it is often a first stop home or last stop on the way out for troops headed abroad. They’ve even got an organized troop greeter organization there that is awesome!
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Recently looked into getting NEXUS after work travel started having me go to YYZ more. From what I can tell, in the locations that support these interviews the US has staff in the office while Canada still does not. I will continue to wait in the cattle line to clear customs until they return.
And they’ve upgraded to EMB-175s, at least on AA out of CLT. Last time I flew into HHH, I was on a turbo prop Dash-8.
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You the Krystal’s out of Terminal A, you face the consequences.
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Flew out of HHH on Dec 10.
That snack bar/variety store needsan upgrade.
Not sure if there is a better airport to fly into than JAC. Only airport inside a national park in the country.
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Two golf trip airports this year were both great- Traverse City and Eugene. I’d give them two tray tables all the way up.
I’ll throw out that the Midway renovations are really solid. As a SW gui I quite enjoy Midway aside from its terrible baggage claim time.
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Did someone say HHH?
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I’ll plug my local airport MHT (Manchester-Boston Regional). Small airport about an hours drive north of boston. I can leave my front door, drive the five miles to the airport, park for ten bucks a day, breeze thru security and be at the gate in less than 30 minutes. Its delightful. Its only blemish is that american does fly in and out which i avoid like the plague unless its a direct shuttle to philly or dca. I’ll stick to my southwest flights.
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*Said it before, but the fried chicken taco at Original El Taco in the ATL airport is out of this world. Can’t recommend enough.
*Nanni’s comments on the Tampa TrapDraw were so outdated. I get the guys will probably never fly out of TPA because it’s within driving distance, but it’s just great. You don’t really appreciate it until you fly out of consistently. The Publix of airports.
*Neil got a HELL of a redemption value on his flights. Briefly looking at JAX-EZE round trips and they’re ~$1800 in Premium Economy and ~$4800 in business. Upgrading those for 90,000 Skymiles is roughly equivalent to a redemption value of 3.4 cents per skymile. Delta has stated in SEC filings they value SkyPesos at 1 cent per Skymile. Huge redemption value to get 3.4 cents per Skymile.
*Terminal F SkyClub at ATL is nice, but it’s behind every United Polaris lounge and every American Flagship lounge. At best it’s the 11th-best domestic-operated airline lounge in the US. Same goes for the JFK SkyClub.
*I will keep pumping the MCO-EDI flight on Virgin on here. Award availability is plentiful and can be booked with Delta miles or Virgin miles, which can be transferred from any of the credit card programs (Chase, AmEx, etc.). It’s nice to have a longer flight to take advantage of the lie-flat seat and get a full night’s sleep instead of a few hour nap on the short redeye from Northern East Coast. In the case of most of the NLU guys, it’s a 50-minute drive to JAX or a 2h20m drive to MCO for a nonstop. No-brainer to me. Also, I hope Tron isn’t going to stick Randy in the United 757-200 EWR-EDI. Footwells are NOT conducive to a tall person. Pair that with having to climb over your seat mate to get to the bathroom and I could see him hating it:
Need him in the Virgin A333 so he has basically unlimited leg room and direct aisle access. I will admit the herringbone layout is a bit of a fish bowl with everyone looking at each other.
*New York has anti-price gouging laws in airports. They were called out recently at LaGuardia and promptly corrected the price of a Sam Adams from $28 to…$18. Because allegedly that’s how much a Sam Adams cost elsewhere in NYC. LaGuardia Restaurant Sells $28 Sam Adams Beer, Prompting Price Audit - Business Insider
*Singapore Air really is great. Hope TC gets the big guy in Suites. Would love to film his reaction when the flight attendant greets him. “Welcome to Singapore Suites, Mr. Landes. Would you like some Dom Perignon or Krug before we depart?”
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SNA has runway length issues that make east coast USA flights a challenge, overseas flights aren’t happening. LGB is slot restricted (as is SNA), meaning they cap the number of daily departures and airlines bid for slots.
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