Good point. For me the days of hoping (expecting) to get an upgrade are long gone. But I avoid all the other AA hubs during peak biz travel hours and really dont hit any of those cities anymore. (add CLT to that list)
I find admirals club availability, customer service, and flight availability, standby options etc still to be better perks at hubs with status.
Most bad experiences bring out folks angst …just my opinion that status at a hub def makes a bad experience better.
I always fear some sort of cancellation on a airline I have zero status on and the pain in the butt it would be to get rebooked etc.
As a big Steelers fan, always love the vibes flying up to PIT for games - everyone on the plane and in the airport decked out in their Steelers gear. Not something you see at the major airports.
Kind of but no. The headcount at TSA line doesn’t make you a world city. It can simply mean you’re deltas portal to South America and Europe.
My list of “world cities” is good the other lists are hasty.
The biggest misfire I can think of has to be the A380. The entire premise for the A380 was that Dubai would become the new financial capital of the world. That didn’t happen. As a result, no domestic carriers bought a single A380 and Emirates was left funding a lot more development than they wanted before finally saying “enough.” Great plane though. Great fucking plane.
These are the best. Next time you gotta take those same planes up to Bar Harbor so you can check out Acadia - flying low over the coast of Maine is sweet. "A Course Called America* is the answer for golf course tips up there!
Damn things got feisty in here quickly. I’ll just ditto the Global Entry interview complaints (finally got a slot for March ‘22 after applying in early 2020).
That’s not a gameday thing that’s just Pittsburgh. There’s ALWAYS multiple people wearing Steelers gear on flights to/from Pgh. Or at their kid’s 8am Saturday soccer game in May.
Passenger experience at Burbank is great, but the problem with small airports can be tryin tho pick people up at busy times. Burbank has like 50 feet of passenger loading space. Real PITA trying to pick up my sister this year.
Used to love flying Chicago to Long Beach and back when Jet Blue operated a nonstop, but they axed that route.
TSA Pre check has taken a lot of the sting out of big airports. I’d prefer to live in Chicago with nonstops everywhere over somewhere like Grand Rapids, where I’d have to connect to get anywhere.
It’s still a million times better than LAX, especially since they’ve completely banned non-shuttle traffic inside the divider curb. It’s easy as pie to have your sister meet you at the short-term parking structure at BUR on the rare occasion it’s busy.
This is wild to me, with how much you all fly, that you and @MerchCzar are so late to the TSA PreCheck party.
If anyone reading this thinks that there is even a possibility that you might be traveling internationally in the next 5 years, just go ahead and enroll in Global Entry. Smooths out the rough edges of the Customs process and even if you don’t end up traveling internationally, all you’ve really done is overpay for PreCheck, which is included with GE.
Although I should of course stipulate that if there are some adverse events in your gubmint file, you might not be eligible for these trusted traveler programs. TRM regrets any inadvertently judgmental tone in the previous comment!
I started getting TSA-pre through American as part of the testing phase back in July of 2011, and after one time not having to go through the full security theater, I was submitting my Global Entry application.
