Airports Thread

[Chicat]

That film has to be at least 10 years old. Who has boarding passes like that anymore?

Anyone who has their boarding pass printed at bag check.

[scumdevils86]

Yeah I was gonna say...every airline that I'm aware of. I'm apparently weird because I always make sure to have the boarding pass on my phone and the paper one.

[CalStateTempe]

Me too scum

[Merkin]

Bring back the 747!

[Chicat]

Bring back the 747!

Took the Airbus A380 back from London and got moved to the upper level because our entertainment systems in our seats weren’t working.

Could’ve easily taken out 50 seats and made it a lounge and bar. Especially since the plane was like 1/10th full.

[CalStateTempe]

Didn’t we used to have a travel thread? Take me to the spots of some thing like that? Can anyone point. E in the right direction?

[wyo-cat]

Take me to the hot spots.

[RichardCranium]

Melbourne's Airport just got approval for a new (the third) runway over years of objections by local residents.

The bets are on for which opens first, the 3rd runway or the recently approved train line. The airport train has been demanded by 'everyone' for over 50 years and has been an issue in every damn state election for the 40 years since I've been here. The final argument came down to where to put the station. The government wants the station on the surface, the airport wants it underground, where to me at least makes more sense. The airport wants to ensure they have space to develop hotels and what not and to keep the parking revenue. I don't care about that part, I just think they would have a more straight forward access in all directions if they put it underground. Anyway the airport finally conceded and "in theory" there are no more obstacles, but now they are back to arguing about the route and which needful suburbs are going to get the new stations.

ITS F#$%ing ridiculous. Just start digging will you!?!

[azgreg]

Didn’t we used to have a travel thread? Take me to the spots of some thing like that? Can anyone point. E in the right direction?

Sure. Look in the Travel and Leisure Sub forum.

[CatsbyAZ]

Last week my flight to Honolulu routed through Maui for a 4-hour layover. Great mid-sized airport with an open-air central square for shopping and dining. For as stressful and tiring as travel can be, disembarking a plane in Hawaii makes up for being cramped on a 5 or 6 hour flight from the Mainland, soon you inhale that ocean-salted Pacific air.