Cross-section: Airport

[edg]

In the airport. I'm flying to Atlanta, then to San Juan; the flight to Atlanta ahead of mine was delayed 40 minutes (but has just started boarding), and the one several after mine has already been cancelled. Apparently there's some bad weather in Atlanta.

On the plus side, the lines in the airport were nearly nonexistent. It took me fifteen minutes at most to get from the door to the far side of security. I still think that arriving significantly early is a good idea, but the fact that I haven't run into lines at all the last few times I've flown makes me wonder if maybe I'm arriving too early.

I think I'm going to take a solemn vow never to eat in an airport again. A ham-and-cheese sandwich and a Diet Coke just cost me $9.50.

The T-Mobile wireless network in this wing of the airport ebbs and flows like the sea at high speed, going between 75% strength and no signal in the span of a few seconds and back again. Currently it's sloshing between 75% and 50%. Still, it seems to allow a certain degree of functionality, so I'm not complaining too much.

In about twenty minutes, I expect, they will be calling for my flight to begin boarding.

[EDIT 7:51 AM]

A random thought occurs to me: "opinion" != "unassailable position". Everyone is entitled to opinions; that doesn't mean that they're immune to being wrong.

[EDIT 8:26 AM]

The flight from Baltimore to Atlanta is now delayed by exactly an hour. My flight from Atlanta to San Juan leaves on time. When everything was running on schedule, I had a 68-minute layover in Atlanta.

We're supposed to land in Atlanta at 11:26 now; the flight to San Juan leaves at 11:45. The gate attendant genuinely appears to think that 19 minutes is sufficient to get from touchdown on one plane to in-seat on another, when the planes are dealing with inclement weather and low visibility.

I am not currently impressed with Delta.

Comments

[solaas.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Safe journey, and have fun! That's an order! :D

[archangelbeth]

Luck! I hope you don't have a long run to get to the other plane! (Maybe they figure the other one will be delayed getting off the ground...)

[tigerfox.livejournal.com]

Uhm... at least Hartsfield-Jackson has a train that moves between each terminal so you don't have to hoof it? >.<;;

Maybe the flight attendants can call ahead to the next gate and ask them to wait.

Are both flights with Delta? If so, they'd have their own wing at Hartsfield-Jackson which would save a bit of time.

[labyrinthman.livejournal.com]

It wasn't weather, according to one news source. A 727 kinda had issues on one of the major atlanta runways.

[edg.livejournal.com]

There was some major inclement weather - we flew into and out of a thunderstorm - but yes, a cargo plane lost part of its landing gear on a major runway and disabled a full quarter of the airport.

[leticia.livejournal.com]

*scritchies* Good luck playing airplane tag!

('Course, I hope by now that you're on said second plane, and my luck is coming late, but.)

[angelofwinter.livejournal.com]

$9.50!!
Make sure next time to pack a big huge sandwich and gobble it up just before you get to luggage check!

Hopefully that'll last you till you arrive, if you aren't flying Welfare-Air (America West) where they charge you for lunch..

[angelofwinter.livejournal.com]

Oh, by the way, I work in the Delta Building at LAX.
(Not FOR Delta mind you, this office room is just rented-out office space.)

Maybe I can leave some tissue-paper voodoo dolls lying around in obscure places, work some voodoo for you?

[brianh]

*laughs* Really? I must have passed nearby your building hundreds of times. We live in Westchester, and my father flies out frequently (once a week, generally, sometimes twice) on business trips via Delta, and I volunteer to drive him a lot.