Crossing paths in airports
 

I think this is a little bit of an OMNI posting. Sorry, Catman.

I've been doing a lot of waiting around in Red Carpet Clubs lately (6 hours at Narita last week) and started wondering how many times our Flyertalk members actually cross paths in aiports. Okay, so I had A LOT of time of my hands.

I'm positive that one of us has literally walked past another in an airport but not knowing each other by face or being focused on walking to our gate, we simply pass without knowledge.

We should ask our hosts at Flyertalk to assist.

Randy had mentioned T-shirts in an earlier thread. Perhaps, instead of T-shirts, luggage tags would be a nice, inexpensive perk of the Flyertalk board.

We could attach a "flyertalk" tag to our carry-on, purse or briefcase (next to the FF elite tag, of course) and use it as a means to identify fellow Flyertalk members for impromptu airport mustard pretzel festivals.

Any thoughts?

Dave

PlanetAll has a "tracking" feature where you can input your travel plans (general -- like cities) and it will match with those people in your contact list.

It would be really interesting to see how many of us cross paths...

we could always just set up a thread mentioning what flights we will be on during the following week, then other members who are in the same airport/airplane that day could reply with a suggestion of a meeting.

i'll start: jan30 - continental airlines from new orleans to phoenix (7:30a-11:34a)

jan30 - america west from phx to las vegas (10:15p-10:17p)

i'll buy the first round http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

JAN-20: (SR-LOUNGE B) SK 604 ZRH-CPH 1930-2120
JAN-20/21: SK 973 CPH-BKK 2205-1445*
JAN-24/25: (THAI-éOUNGE) TG 981 BKK-MEL 2035-1225*
JAN-29: (RED CARPET) UA 842 MEL-LAX 1315-1105
JAN-29: (RED CARPET) UA 192 LAX-IAD 1230-2013
JAN-30: (RED CARPET) UA 97 DCA-MIA 2000-2230
FEB-1: (RED CARPET) LH 463 MIA-FRA 1555-0645*
FEB-2: (LH BUSINESS LOUNGE) LH 3704 FRA-ZRH 0855-0950

I'LL HAVE MY NEUE ZüRCHER ZEITUNG VISIBLE AND I SPEAK STRANGE SWISS GERMAN WITH MY BROTHER.

Luggage Tags! Great Idea and also some pub for WF/FT, etc.

Rudi, What the heck is a NEUE ZüRCHER ZEITUNG ? I hope it is not X-Rated!

24 JAN SCL - LIM LA 527 09:40 - 11:20
24 JAN LIM - MIA UA 972 11:30 - 04:50
25 JAN MIA - IAD UA 970 13:30 - 15:55
25 JAN IAD - LAX UA 963 17:15 - 20:00
25 JAN LAX - SYD UA 815 22:15 - 07:00
10 FEB SYD - LAX UA 816 13:00 - 07:25
10 FEB LAX - IAD UA 190 10:25 - 18:00
10 FEB IAD - MCO UA 977 21:45 - 23:52
14 FEB MCO - MIA UA 991 21:50 - 22:46
14 FEB MIA - LIM UA 973 23:45 - 05:20
15 FEB LIM - SCL LA ? 07:00 - 12:20

I'll have my wife and daughters in tow. We're easily recognizable, as we speak a mixture of English, Spanish and German. Looking at the above, I wouldn't be surprised that most sane people would want to avoid us. Of course, that group wouldn't include the FlyerTalk crowd.

Neue Zürcher Zeitung = http://www.nzz.ch

Here's mine... might get a Crown Room Club day pass for the trip.

25 FEB SAT-DFW DL 1507 17:50-18:50
DFW-SLC DL 383 19:35-21:25
SLC-LAS DL 927 22:10-22:37

(In between... three weeks on business in the middle of nowhere... aka Fort Irwin, California!)

21 MAR LAS-SLC DL 1102 11:05-13:26
SLC-DFW DL 1660 14:55-18:28
DFW-SAT DL 811 19:35-20:45

Hmmm... no path crossing yet. Below is mine, and the bad thing is I am flying 20k miles next month and none of it on UA. (I'm a PremEx.)

29 JAN BOS-MCO DL 2349 09:40 - 11:20
01 FEB MCO-BOS DL 2456 09:40 - 11:20

11 FEB BOS-ORD AA 1011 06:05 - 07:56
11 FEB ORD-SEA AA 1163 08:45 - 11:22
11 FEB SEA-NRT AA 27 12:50 - 16:05
12 FEB NRT-MNL NW 27 18:25 - 22:15
17 FEB MNL-TPE EV 272 13:05 - 15:00
24 FEB TPE-NRT NW 8 09:20 - 13:15
24 FEB NRT-SEA AA 26 18:40 - 10:20
24 FEB SEA-DFW AA 1324 12:09 - 17:59
24 FEB DFW-BOS AA 1078 18:31 - 22:59

Will be in Diner's Club at TPE and NRT. Working on getting AA's Admiral. I will be with my brother; look for two Chinese guys with laptops! :-)

Rudi, Thank you for the information. I will look for the NZZ.

JAWs

The CAT POLICE rule your posting NON-OMNI Tropical Flyer. There is a travel element
(and CMDR CATCOP likes the fact that we are
trying to come together and meet each other!)

NEUE ZüRCHER ZEITUNG is Switzerland's "New YOrk Times" or "Chicago Tribune" or "Washington Post" or "L-A times" or other fine Newspaper. Rudi used this to help me identify him the first time we held our first
OMNI committee meeting last August at the Pierre Hotel. It was one of the best breakfasts I've had.

I concur that FT/WF luggage tags would be a
great way for us to spot each other. At least in my case you can spot me by the cat hair on my carry on, jacket, jeans, etc.

NO immediate travel plans but there's New Orleans 4-01 to 4-04 for Holly's birthday celebration, climaxing with dinner at Delmonicos Orleans and after dinner drinks at
Pat O'Briens. It should be an interesting trip. CATMAN

[This message has been edited by Catman (edited 01-20-99).]

Luggage tags would be cool. I personally have a soft spot for enamel/cloisonne pins and/or
t-shirts, mostly because most of my travel is
for conferences or other geeky events. But hey, I'm not one to turn down any sort of free trinket...

JD

Catman ~ Unfortunately, since that's Easter weekend, I'm going to be out of town, but maybe you'd like to cat sit for my girlfriend and I *grin* ... that way you won't suffer from cat withdrawl like I'm sure you must do on most other trips ...