which airport is the worst when it comes to chasing away cars at arrivals area?
Mar 13, 2015, 7:03 am
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I would say the worst is the airport that doesn't chase away parkers at the curb.
I find it infuriating when I'm at the curb waiting to be picked up except my ride doesn't have space to pull in because people are squatting in the space, with no visible traveler in sight to pick up.
Now THAT's the worst!
I find it infuriating when I'm at the curb waiting to be picked up except my ride doesn't have space to pull in because people are squatting in the space, with no visible traveler in sight to pick up.
Now THAT's the worst!
Mar 28, 2015, 7:33 pm
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Mar 29, 2015, 4:48 pm
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Amen! This is a problem at JFK. The traffic guys just stand around while the whole area becomes a Mongolian cluster dance and you can't even see through all the cars to watch for your ride, nor can your driver see you, and then you have to wade through all the traffic to get to the car, which isn't real safe. Once in a while a cop will show up and yell at the traffic people to do their jobs LOL
JFK has a huge problem with this, especially T4 when all the international arrivals come in.
Mar 30, 2015, 10:26 am
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Had an awful curbside experience last week in PSP, of all places. It took me all of 90 seconds to unload golf clubs and 3 bags from the rental car. I thought the airport policeman was going to have an embolism; he threatened my 61-yo wife with arrest for failing to drive away while I was still unloading. Traffic was sparse, to say the least.
What a tool. I suspect he had some sort of animus toward heterosexuals.
What a tool. I suspect he had some sort of animus toward heterosexuals.
Mar 30, 2015, 11:30 am
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This is quite odd - I would think that an airport as busy as JFK would be on this. Instead, it seems like various people are parked, wandering about. They leave their cars, gab on the phone, and no one seems to care - right in front of the officers. It's actually really perplexing.
Mar 30, 2015, 3:27 pm
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While that makes sense, if you allow the cop discretion then you will end up with people simply screaming at the cop "You let him park, but not me! Why not you sexist, racist, agist, fascist pig??" Arguments, fights, lawsuits, etc. are just not worth it. Simple rule: No parking or stopping unless actively boarding passengers or luggage. Apply it to everyone all the time.
I do the departures pick up, especially at night.
Mar 30, 2015, 7:48 pm
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Seems like a decent cell phone lot should cure most of these ills. Airports that don't have a convenient cell phone lot could probably offer 30 minutes free short term parking and kill a lot of the traffic.
On the rare cases I'm having someone pick me up at any kind of major airport, we meet at departures. If feasible, I select some random non-hub airline's departure area. At ORD, I usually tell my ride to meet me at DL, upper level, even though I've never actually flown in there on DL. At MCI, I always go to an end of whatever terminal I'm in.
On the rare cases I'm having someone pick me up at any kind of major airport, we meet at departures. If feasible, I select some random non-hub airline's departure area. At ORD, I usually tell my ride to meet me at DL, upper level, even though I've never actually flown in there on DL. At MCI, I always go to an end of whatever terminal I'm in.
May 16, 2016, 5:30 pm
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Here's a new one: I'm driving for Uber this summer while I study for the bar exam. I was dropping a customer at RDU today and I pulled up to the departures level, got his bag out of the car and shook his hand. All of a sudden an RDU Cop showed up and demanded to know who I was driving for, then told me I had to drop customers on the lower level. It was 1 Pm and there was almost no traffic, way to be, buddy 
May 16, 2016, 6:06 pm
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I wish all airports were diligent about this. It's a safety risk and a huge annoyance. Safety (see Brussels style attack) on a larger scale and for the people who have to dart around cars just to get in and out of the airport. Last time I was being picked up a dude straight up parked and walked in from the curb. Just left the car. Around him were countless cars that each sat for 10+ minutes. I got in early and had to wait awhile and of course once my ride arrived, I had to walk out to be picked up because the curb space was all taken. And yes, we have a cell phone lot. People are just dummies sometimes.
May 17, 2016, 10:10 am
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Seems like a decent cell phone lot should cure most of these ills. Airports that don't have a convenient cell phone lot could probably offer 30 minutes free short term parking and kill a lot of the traffic.
On the rare cases I'm having someone pick me up at any kind of major airport, we meet at departures. If feasible, I select some random non-hub airline's departure area. At ORD, I usually tell my ride to meet me at DL, upper level, even though I've never actually flown in there on DL. At MCI, I always go to an end of whatever terminal I'm in.
On the rare cases I'm having someone pick me up at any kind of major airport, we meet at departures. If feasible, I select some random non-hub airline's departure area. At ORD, I usually tell my ride to meet me at DL, upper level, even though I've never actually flown in there on DL. At MCI, I always go to an end of whatever terminal I'm in.