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Originally Posted by
ani90
I was always wondering who were those travellers who sit down leisurely so relaxed in TGIFs and restaurants of that like at the airport having a three course meal....now I know!
@:-) sometimes you have no choice but to take long layovers, for varied reasons @:-)
Originally Posted by
ani90
decideds to relax and read as you say, falls asleep and misses their flight. This is very unlikely happen to me as often an uniterrupted trip, or trip with only brief interruption, from check-in to gate.
must be really boring books LOL and you are right, its unlikely to happen to you if you are sweating the check in at the 60 minute mark, adrenaline keeps pumping
now not to sound like I am picking on your posts only but regarding this...
Originally Posted by
ani90
If a flat tire has not happened all year, why would it happen day I am on way to airport? .
answer= Murphy's law
'all year' I did not need to be at the airport to catch a flight connecting to a trans-atl or trans-pac or something like that
Originally Posted by
ani90
really it boils down to how one is willing to put himself through stress and how one is able to cope with it. .
and how risky the consequences of cutting it too close are, "dear customer, I didnt think I needed more than 60 mins to check in , there are no more flights today so I will see you tomorrow, I am sorry for the extra day downtime in 'x' or missing the 'meeting of the year' "
Originally Posted by
ani90
For those wanting to get early so they can sit in a lounge and sip free drinks or snacks, do you not have chairs and drinks at home? .
just checked and I seem to have all the above, the only thing I am missing is a jetway/gate/plane and crew to take me from my house to 6k miles away, now in the lounge the free drinks/snacks are meters away from said jetway/plane/crew and there are no taxis/roads/cars/rental cars/full parking lots/etc in the way
I take about 6-9 trips a year (12-20 segments which is of course nothing), the first leg is always 1500 miles (2nd or 3rd leg anywhere from 1500 to 5000) and there are only so many flights from SJO to IAH/EWR on a given day. Missing my first leg will for sure end up in a misconnect and the cascading effect can be horrible, that is MY travel 'profile'
Of course you have people with 100 segments, most of them domestic...with plenty of opportunities to reroute if there is a problem ......and since 1 extra hour @ 100+ segments adds up........well..... I would probably go from 2 to 1 hr pretty soon too. those road warriors spend enough time on the road as it is.
I also don't want to look stressed going through security, already happened once that by running from immigration to customs (tight connection after delayed plane leaving and then EWR was shutdown adding 30 mins of flight time) someone got very interested in me and added 10 mins of interrogation (but I made the connection anyway)