Originally Posted by
PAX_fips
Stories about how quickly it can happen to get on a plane - or of it and back home/hotel/..
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Sunday was a nice day in terms of going airside, boarding, deboarding, landside and home.
Was travelling by train from some valley deep down in Switzerland to ZRH.
Arrived at trains platform #1 at ZRH and walked to Check-in 1 directions, scanned BP for
fast-track security. No queue, no issues. Headed to SEN Lounge in A.
Elapsed time between leaving train and lightning up cigarillo in lounge: 14min.
From A-Lounge to Gate A86 (only one more further out in this concourse): 5min.
After arriving parking position, almost immediately LX captain announced that
we'd have to wait for the jetbridge due to shortage of personell. Well, the bridge was
there within 2-3min. Must be some LX/HAM thing, have read more overheard
complaints of LX pilots about HAM..
Anyway, door 1L opens and I head out for a Taxi (~1min wait) and I am back home
at my desk around 12min after leaving my seat in 3F.
So in "tara" terms, this took me 14+5+12 = 31min to "waste" outside the actual
flight including some detour to a lounge (cut down ~3min not going there).
Disclaimer: no passport controls (out/in) had to be passed.
Maybe some story on about how status and carry-on can matter :-)
Schengen and status are quite useful things indeed. I find that if I have something productive to do in the lounge and train, traveling isn't that much lost time.
Originally Posted by
lost_perspicacity
what.
Nani kore?
Originally Posted by
CPRich
Yes, I suspect many FT members can add their own experiences. Pretty much any small airport with <10 gates probably has less than a couple hundred yards of total walking and no security wait line, at least during non-peak times.
ZRH is none of those things
