Ever been the only one in a Concourse
Nov 3, 2012, 2:43 pm
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Ever been the only one in a Concourse
I'm at Burlington VT and other than two concession workers and TSA I'm the only one in the concourse. In fact, I might be the only one in the airport passenger wise. Nice, like my own private airport.
Anyother like experiences?
Anyother like experiences?
Nov 3, 2012, 4:00 pm
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Ever been the only one in a Concourse
Early flight out of ABE a few years ago and I had gotten in a bit early myself. TSA had people there to let me through and there was one guy working at a Subway. Kind of spooky actually.
Nov 3, 2012, 5:04 pm
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Flew into PSM with a friend right around the time SX went out of business. At the FBO, he took care of paperwork and I borrowed the crew car to drive around the airport. For the heck of it, I went to the passenger terminal. Surprisingly, nothing was locked. I wandered around a bit around the empty building. It was like a scene out of 28 Days Later.
Nov 3, 2012, 6:03 pm
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ABE has 2 flights that go out at 6 AM (and a bus, but that's another story). If you are there are before 5 very likely to be the only one there. After 5 the food place upstairs opens...
Nov 5, 2012, 3:06 am
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Yes. At some airports, if I use the restroom on arrival, I may be the only person there as even the TSA has packed up and left hours earlier and the way into and out of the departure-area concourse is via an automated contraption.
Nov 5, 2012, 3:56 am
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Several times. Sometimes due to IRROPS, sometimes due to staying in airport hotels and wanting to stretch my legs, sometimes due to tiny, tiny airports, and one time due to being unaware that the country I was in was observing different daylight savings to what I was expecting...
The oddest one has to be BSL. And MLH. Or was it BSL? Who knows. It's an odd airport at the best of times. Anyway, I was going to stay at the Formule 1 (yes, very glam, I know) down by St Louis la Chaussée station. I had a late night connection via ZRH, and was due on the last shuttle of the day from ZRH-BSL. However, due to some aircraft problems, we missed the last landing slot for BSL and were bussed from ZRH back to Basel.
Must have been 1 or 2am by the time we reached Basel. The driver offered to drop a load of people off at the SBB station, and so most people got off. A handful of us stayed on to the airport. All the others were Swiss, and so picked up their cars from the Swiss car park and drove home. Which left me.
For those who don't know BSL, it's an odd airport, which straddles the Swiss/French border. Half the airport is in Switzerland, half in France. As both are now Schengen states, this isn't quite so important now (although Switzerland is non-EU) but at the time, it wasn't. The problem I had was that I was in Switzerland, at 2am, in a closed airport, with a great big fence stopping me from getting into France.
However, I found that the airport was open. So I went in. Most lights were off, but the escalators were running, so I thought, well, let's look upstairs. And so it turned out that the upstairs border control was open and unmanned. So I walked through. And down, and back out on to French territory.
Of course, the airport was now closed, so there was no sign of buses, taxis or the like, so I ended up walking (in the snow) down the access road out to the hotel at St Louis.
Odd experience. Easy border crossing, though.
The oddest one has to be BSL. And MLH. Or was it BSL? Who knows. It's an odd airport at the best of times. Anyway, I was going to stay at the Formule 1 (yes, very glam, I know) down by St Louis la Chaussée station. I had a late night connection via ZRH, and was due on the last shuttle of the day from ZRH-BSL. However, due to some aircraft problems, we missed the last landing slot for BSL and were bussed from ZRH back to Basel.
Must have been 1 or 2am by the time we reached Basel. The driver offered to drop a load of people off at the SBB station, and so most people got off. A handful of us stayed on to the airport. All the others were Swiss, and so picked up their cars from the Swiss car park and drove home. Which left me.
For those who don't know BSL, it's an odd airport, which straddles the Swiss/French border. Half the airport is in Switzerland, half in France. As both are now Schengen states, this isn't quite so important now (although Switzerland is non-EU) but at the time, it wasn't. The problem I had was that I was in Switzerland, at 2am, in a closed airport, with a great big fence stopping me from getting into France.
However, I found that the airport was open. So I went in. Most lights were off, but the escalators were running, so I thought, well, let's look upstairs. And so it turned out that the upstairs border control was open and unmanned. So I walked through. And down, and back out on to French territory.
Of course, the airport was now closed, so there was no sign of buses, taxis or the like, so I ended up walking (in the snow) down the access road out to the hotel at St Louis.
Odd experience. Easy border crossing, though.
Nov 5, 2012, 12:37 pm
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I slept in a row at chairs at ABQ many years ago (pre 9/11), after driving down from Santa Fe in a snowstorm to meet my wife's flight. The flight was cancelled and I camped out waiting for her morning arrival from Denver. There may have been folks somewhere that I didn't see, but I think I was pretty much on my own.
Nov 5, 2012, 4:38 pm
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one time at SIN, I was last in the security line to go into the gate area for last flight out to HKG. Security guy standing nearby looks at his watch, steps into the line in front of me and says '20 minutes, gate closed, no more' so after watching the plane finish boarding and pull away from the gate without me - I spent the night in SIN.
Except for the lady on the desk at SQ lounge, I didn't see a soul.
Except for the lady on the desk at SQ lounge, I didn't see a soul.
Nov 5, 2012, 6:30 pm
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Several times. Sometimes due to IRROPS, sometimes due to staying in airport hotels and wanting to stretch my legs, sometimes due to tiny, tiny airports, and one time due to being unaware that the country I was in was observing different daylight savings to what I was expecting...
The oddest one has to be BSL. And MLH. Or was it BSL? Who knows. It's an odd airport at the best of times. Anyway, I was going to stay at the Formule 1 (yes, very glam, I know) down by St Louis la Chaussée station. I had a late night connection via ZRH, and was due on the last shuttle of the day from ZRH-BSL. However, due to some aircraft problems, we missed the last landing slot for BSL and were bussed from ZRH back to Basel.
Must have been 1 or 2am by the time we reached Basel. The driver offered to drop a load of people off at the SBB station, and so most people got off. A handful of us stayed on to the airport. All the others were Swiss, and so picked up their cars from the Swiss car park and drove home. Which left me.
For those who don't know BSL, it's an odd airport, which straddles the Swiss/French border. Half the airport is in Switzerland, half in France. As both are now Schengen states, this isn't quite so important now (although Switzerland is non-EU) but at the time, it wasn't. The problem I had was that I was in Switzerland, at 2am, in a closed airport, with a great big fence stopping me from getting into France.
However, I found that the airport was open. So I went in. Most lights were off, but the escalators were running, so I thought, well, let's look upstairs. And so it turned out that the upstairs border control was open and unmanned. So I walked through. And down, and back out on to French territory.
Of course, the airport was now closed, so there was no sign of buses, taxis or the like, so I ended up walking (in the snow) down the access road out to the hotel at St Louis.
Odd experience. Easy border crossing, though.
The oddest one has to be BSL. And MLH. Or was it BSL? Who knows. It's an odd airport at the best of times. Anyway, I was going to stay at the Formule 1 (yes, very glam, I know) down by St Louis la Chaussée station. I had a late night connection via ZRH, and was due on the last shuttle of the day from ZRH-BSL. However, due to some aircraft problems, we missed the last landing slot for BSL and were bussed from ZRH back to Basel.
Must have been 1 or 2am by the time we reached Basel. The driver offered to drop a load of people off at the SBB station, and so most people got off. A handful of us stayed on to the airport. All the others were Swiss, and so picked up their cars from the Swiss car park and drove home. Which left me.
For those who don't know BSL, it's an odd airport, which straddles the Swiss/French border. Half the airport is in Switzerland, half in France. As both are now Schengen states, this isn't quite so important now (although Switzerland is non-EU) but at the time, it wasn't. The problem I had was that I was in Switzerland, at 2am, in a closed airport, with a great big fence stopping me from getting into France.
However, I found that the airport was open. So I went in. Most lights were off, but the escalators were running, so I thought, well, let's look upstairs. And so it turned out that the upstairs border control was open and unmanned. So I walked through. And down, and back out on to French territory.
Of course, the airport was now closed, so there was no sign of buses, taxis or the like, so I ended up walking (in the snow) down the access road out to the hotel at St Louis.
Odd experience. Easy border crossing, though.
Nov 5, 2012, 10:20 pm
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However, I found that the airport was open. So I went in. Most lights were off, but the escalators were running, so I thought, well, let's look upstairs. And so it turned out that the upstairs border control was open and unmanned. So I walked through. And down, and back out on to French territory.
Of course, the airport was now closed, so there was no sign of buses, taxis or the like, so I ended up walking (in the snow) down the access road out to the hotel at St Louis.
Odd experience. Easy border crossing, though.
