My observations as an infrequent flyer

BlackCat

BlackCat

American Greaser
Hi left Coast people I'm in SFO for two hours

Air travel has gotten a much more electronic device friendly in the past couple of years

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Second observation
For a smoker airports are seventh circle of hell.
 
You may think that they treat people like dogs but they seem to be treating dogs better. I've seen two dogs flying topside with the people and I'm only on the second leg of the trip.
 
The SFO PA said: "We are investigating an alarm. Please listen." She said that 5 times in 10 minutes then went silent. Are they trying to create an atmosphere of paranoia?
 
BlackCat said:
The SFO PA said: "We are investigating an alarm. Please listen." She said that 5 times in 10 minutes then went silent. Are they trying to create an atmosphere of paranoia?
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Seems like it. I got stuck overnight in the airport in DC; even tough there were no flights and no passengers arriving, they continued the announcement about keeping your baggage secure the entire fucking night.

This past fall is the first in several years that I did not fly; I will be back in the airport this fall, however. Thankfully, I quit smoking 28 years ago.
 
I have come to enjoy flying. It's just part of my routine these days. What piss me off most are the infrequent fliers who do dumb shit in the security line or stop suddenly in the middle of the concourse. I've got places to be, people.
 
BlockInlay said:
Another thing that pisses me off is the handful of tsa "officers" with an inflated sense of what their job is.
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I travel with two laptops. Even though I am TSA Pre, some airports make me take one out, and others yell at me when I do. That gets tiring.
 
I used to love flying, but then a confluence of little things on a flight about 20 years ago scared the shit out of me, and for years I would be white-knuckling it every time we hit the least bit of turbulence.

In the last several years, I have had less issues in-flight, but these days the whole process of taking a flight is so fucking annoying - an hour or more to get to the airport, then the two-hour "allowance", followed by the flight itself, then getting the baggage, then finding my ride/rental car...hell, my motto now is if I can drive there in 10 hours or less, then I'm driving.
 
Flew from Oakland to Vegas last Tuesday and it was probably the simplest flight ever. Don't ask about Florida to Texas to SFO for Christmas and a storm delay.

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I fly all the time and I hate it. I've flown enough to be on some very eventful trips. Bad weather, mechanical issues, lightning strikes, medical emergency landings, wind shear aborted landings, delays, unruly passengers, arrests on landing, and tons of other crappy things that make me just dread flying. I can only imagine what people who fly every day must have seen, or worse yet, what the flight attendants and pilots must have experienced
 
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Tiltsta said:
I fly all the time and I hate it. I've flown enough to be on some very eventful trips. Bad weather, mechanical issues, lightning strikes, medical emergency landings, wind shear aborted landings, delays, unruly passengers, arrests on landing, and tons of other crappy things that make me just dread flying. I can only imagine what people who fly every day must have seen, or worse yet, what the flight attendants and pilots must have experienced
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Heh heh. Florida. :grin:
 
Tiltsta said:
I fly all the time and I hate it. I've flown enough to be on some very eventful trips. Bad weather, mechanical issues, lightning strikes, medical emergency landings, wind shear aborted landings, delays, unruly passengers, arrests on landing, and tons of other crappy things that make me just dread flying.
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Yup.

Used to love any and every opportunity to fly, but I grew out of that pretty quickly when it became a regular and necessary thing. Beyond the occasional moments of terror, the endless parade of mouth breathing morons that populated every aspect of the process, and the post-9/11 security sucked every ounce of pleasure out of it. I dread it now.

One of the biggest reasons I effectively "retired" from working, and why I never go anywhere for fun/vacation anymore is my absolute disdain for flying commercially.

Irony being the cruel bitch that she is... now I can no longer pass the medical requirements to keep my own certificate. I always hoped that when I retired, I could spend my free time on fixing up and flying some old war bird or something cool like an old Beech 18. That ain't happening.
 
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