Thursday, November 22, 2007

Isn't Flying Fun?

I guess it was going to happen; anytime anyone takes an airplane, they have a story able how much the (or a few of them) airports stink. So here’s my story. Kansi Airport was great, but the FREE wireless was off and on, but it was FREE so I can’t really complain. Then, because some fog and low clouds arrived in San Francisco, the plane landed about 10min late and then sat on the tarmac for another 10min because of what the pilot said was “traffic”. And of course the gate was at the far end of the international terminal.
Then Customs was BEFORE getting the luggage which is weird because normally it’s the other way around. But getting the bags was not fun. After waiting for 5min for the luggage to come out only to see that the bags were for the first and business class passengers. I had to wait for another 10min for my bags to show up. At first I wasn’t worried because I had a 2 hour layover but after getting my bags I only had 45 min until take off, which would have been okay, if I didn’t have cookies and tea in my bags. There was another line for people who had food declared on their customs’ form. THAT line look 10min to go through.
WHY is the customs exit always at one end of the airport and the security check for domestic flights are in the middle. So after dropping my bags off again, it took 5min to walk over to security, which was another 10min. THEN I find out that my flight is at gate 88,,,,, out of 90!! It took me 15min to walk/run to the gate only to sit down for 2min when they started to board all rows. I’m just glad I made my flight.

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