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AA_EXP09 Jan 13, 2014 8:48 pm


Originally Posted by hoyateach (Post 22092728)
This is going to repeat some of you but...

I like scheduling long (4-6+ hour) layovers so I can duck out visit a new city, a favorite city, or get together with a friend for a meal or a cup of coffee. Can't do it when traveling with my family but if I'm on my own and I have the time, I'll go out of my way to schedule a side trip like this.

Despite having FT luggage tags for nearly a decade, I have yet to encounter them in the wild on anyone else's luggage, nor has a stranger spotted mine.

The last time I flew in F was on my honeymoon, over 6 years ago. I posted a TR about it.

Despite all my travel experience, it still takes me longer than I'd like to get my things through security.

I take pictures out of the window of aircraft on takeoff and approach even though we're supposed to turn off our electronics.

I have never attended an FT DO.

I could spend hours at a major international airport (JFK, NRT) just watching flight ops.

My background music when working is one of the many ATC feeds at LiveATC.net.

I have not given as much to FT as FT has given to me. But I'm working on that.

4-6 hours IMO is not worth the time, especially depending on airport distance to a city, transport options, and time it takes to get through immigration, customs, and exit control if applicable.
12-15 hours is worth it, though, which I have done (and regularly do 22-23:50 hour layovers in LON to avoid UK APD.)
JFK is more or less a dump of an airport (though not worse than MIA/LAX/ORD) and the AC is often overcrowded so I would get out of there as fast as I could.

BuildingMyBento Jan 15, 2014 8:30 am

I refuse to eat/drink "reduced guilt," low this or that or similarly termed items. It's not up to the food to be in shape, it's up to me.


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