Originally Posted by Anglo Large Clawed Otter (Post 11954530)

Apparently, GGG has a 10,000+ runway, and the 747/Space-Shuttle Combo has landed there. :confused:

However, the terminal is slightly larger than a typical suburban post-office. Go figure.

Originally Posted by sbm12 (Post 11954587)

A lot of the airports built in the south around that era were built with very long runways as diversion points/alternate landing sites for long rang bombers and whatnot for when the Ruskies nuked all our air force bases. That is also one of the reasons that something like one out of every five miles of interstate highway outside of metro areas is built straight and without any overpasses. Hello, my name is useless knowledge and I have a problem.

Originally Posted by sbm12 (Post 11954587)

TPA-IAD-SAN-LAX-SFO-ONT-SFO-SAN-ORD-CLT-TPA was my routing. The two US segments were short and the CLT-TPA was on an A321 which is a decent plane. Sadly the ORD-CLT is on a 734. And, yes, you should take NK so you feel better about your US flights. :p I had to book my routing on Orbitz as TPA-SAN//SAN-ONT and reverse but it did work.

Originally Posted by Hartmann (Post 11954592)

Beats AUS and their "international" south terminal, which, due to vivaAerobus leaving, is now closed.

Originally Posted by rolov (Post 11954628)

Teh only problem with BD right now, is that some flights are not posting due to :rolleyes: in the new system.

Originally Posted by sdm1130 (Post 11954621)

Someone was really shooting for the stars when they decided AUS needed an International terminal..

Originally Posted by Hartmann (Post 11954648)

It would be cool if CO offered something like AA out of AUS, direct flights to some high yield destinations domestically. But yeah, international just seems a bit out of touch with reality.

Originally Posted by Anglo Large Clawed Otter (Post 11954637)

Thankfully, my TG flights posted without issue.

Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 11954667)

Wirelessly posted (BlackBerry8830/4.2.2 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/105)

CO might never run a focus city-style operation out of AUS, but they soon will have focus cities in IAD, LAX, SFO, and ORD. :p

Originally Posted by Anglo Large Clawed Otter (Post 11954423)

IIRC, they changed the fare rules right around the time :rolleyes:v and I flew it in PS. They probably ran the numbers, and noticed that two passengers drank more $$$ in mojitos than they paid in total fare. :rolleyes:

I'm still laughing about the fact that, despite getting stranded at JFK due to irrops, UA refunded me about half of the total fare, even though I had already flown TPA-IAD-JFK-SFO-ONT-SFO-JFK.