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Why do people sleep in airports? I always see these people onthe news...
Richard wrote: "Peter Lawrence" wrote in message . net... I always wonder why in this day when almost everyone travels with a cell phone, why many people will stand in long lines to rebook a flight at the ticket counter. Just phone the airline's toll- free 800 number to rebook. If you're travelling then there's a good chance that you're roaming and your cell provider is going to rape you on airtime charges even if you call a tollfree number. Richard It depends on your contract. In my case continental US to the same is on the minutes. |
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Why do people sleep in airports? I always see these people onthe news...
Richard wrote:
"Peter Lawrence" wrote in message . net... I always wonder why in this day when almost everyone travels with a cell phone, why many people will stand in long lines to rebook a flight at the ticket counter. Just phone the airline's toll- free 800 number to rebook. If you're travelling then there's a good chance that you're roaming and your cell provider is going to rape you on airtime charges even if you call a tollfree number. Richard Then just use a public payphone. Most airports still have quite a few of them. Toll-free numbers are still toll-free on payphones. - Peter |
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Why do people sleep in airports? I always see these people onthe news...
DevilsPGD wrote:
In message Peter Lawrence wrote: Sarah Banick wrote: It's especially bad at holidays, when families have scraped up just enough money for four tickets to go see grandma. There's no budget for cabs or hotels. Unless they got stuck while trying to catch a connecting flight, the usual solution to this problem is just to go back to grandma's house and stay over an extra night. Unless you're a three hour drive from grandma's house at that point. Then just rebook for the same flight for the next day. You'll then have 24 hours to go back and forth from grandma's house, have a couple of nice meals and a good night's rest. That sure beats sleeping on the floor at the airport, especially if you're traveling with kids. (Of course, if it takes three hours to get to the airport, it would be prudent to call ahead and find out the status of your flight before you head off to the airport.) - Peter |
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Why do people sleep in airports? I always see these people on the news...
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:48:27 +0100, "tim....."
wrote: But there is liklely to be an alternative flight to a destination that is more suitable than spending 24 hours in an airport waiting for a flight. timn If I'm going from ATL to BWI for example, and BWI is not operating because of a blizzard, how would it help me to go to Miami? Other than it being better weather? If the connection city is closed, then yes there may be alternatives but not if the problem is in the destination city. We were in Portland, ME last week trying to get to BWI. The flight was a turnaround and couldn't leave BWI. Flights to DC, Philadelphia and the New York area were cancelled. We were fortunate to get out albeit 4 hours late but if our flight which was the last one of the day (of 3) had been cancelled, what would our options have been? We didn't get far enough down the road to check hotels but what if they had been full? What if the bad weather had been in Portland? |
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Why do people sleep in airports? I always see these people on the news...
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:21:11 -0700, Peter Lawrence
wrote: (Of course, if it takes three hours to get to the airport, it would be prudent to call ahead and find out the status of your flight before you head off to the airport.) - Peter I've been in airports where they say the flight is on time when it hasn't left where the plane is coming from and there is no way it could be on time. |
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Why do people sleep in airports? I always see these people on the news...
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:21:11 -0700 Peter Lawrence wrote:
:DevilsPGD wrote: : In message Peter : Lawrence wrote: : Sarah Banick wrote: : It's especially bad at holidays, when families have scraped up just enough : money for four tickets to go see grandma. There's no budget for cabs or : hotels. : Unless they got stuck while trying to catch a connecting flight, the : usual solution to this problem is just to go back to grandma's house and : stay over an extra night. : Unless you're a three hour drive from grandma's house at that point. :Then just rebook for the same flight for the next day. You'll then have :24 hours to go back and forth from grandma's house, have a couple of :nice meals and a good night's rest. That sure beats sleeping on the :floor at the airport, especially if you're traveling with kids. Lose a days work, school, etc. Why not simply lease a jet? :(Of course, if it takes three hours to get to the airport, it would be :prudent to call ahead and find out the status of your flight before you :head off to the airport.) You really are quite clueless. It is rather rare that an airline will admit that a flight is delayed - even an hour ahead. -- Binyamin Dissen http://www.dissensoftware.com Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. |
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Why do people sleep in airports? I always see these people onthe news...
Binyamin Dissen wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:21:11 -0700 Peter Lawrence wrote: :DevilsPGD wrote: : In message Peter : Lawrence wrote: : Sarah Banick wrote: : It's especially bad at holidays, when families have scraped up just enough : money for four tickets to go see grandma. There's no budget for cabs or : hotels. : Unless they got stuck while trying to catch a connecting flight, the : usual solution to this problem is just to go back to grandma's house and : stay over an extra night. : Unless you're a three hour drive from grandma's house at that point. :Then just rebook for the same flight for the next day. You'll then have :24 hours to go back and forth from grandma's house, have a couple of :nice meals and a good night's rest. That sure beats sleeping on the :floor at the airport, especially if you're traveling with kids. Lose a days work, school, etc. The question, if you remember, was about why people stay overnight at the airport. So the premise is that one probably will lose a day of work or school because of a canceled flight. One might not lose any more work days if one stayed over at grandma's house versus sleeping on the floor at the airport. Of course if the family's original flight was a late night flight, and they were able to rebook on an early morning flight, then duh, it might not be practical to go back to grandma's house. But I already explained that scenario in an earlier post. Why not simply lease a jet? Maybe if you had better reading comprehension, you would already know the answer. But because you obviously don't, let me explain it to you in detail. I was responding here to Ms. Banick's hypothetical scenario where a family had "scraped up just enough money for four tickets to go see grandma. There's no budget for cabs or hotels." So if this family didn't have money for a hotel, they wouldn't have money for a leased jet. (Yes, I know you were being sarcastic, asshole. But I decided to explain it do you anyway.) :(Of course, if it takes three hours to get to the airport, it would be :prudent to call ahead and find out the status of your flight before you :head off to the airport.) You really are quite clueless. No, I'm just not a cynic like you. It is rather rare that an airline will admit that a flight is delayed - even an hour ahead. Of course, there are times that flights are delayed within minutes of departure, or even after everyone has boarded the flight and you get stuck on the tarmac waiting to take off. But we were discussing not flights that are delayed, but flights that get canceled. (You really should work on your reading comprehension skills.) Most airlines (unless they're JetBlue) cancel flights at least a few hours before their scheduled departure. Of course, there are still occasionally last minute cancellations that do occur and they can be a real pain in the butt. Still, it doesn't hurt to call ahead -- except for cynics like you it seems. Have a nice day. - Peter |
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Why do people sleep in airports? I always see these people onthe news...
J. Clarke wrote:
Icono Clast wrote: J. Clarke wrote: "telephone". Perhaps you might want to familiarize yourself with it. What good would that do? Allow you to determine if there is a room available and to obtain directions of course, so that you would no longer "have no idea where it is or whether there's a room available". I would still have no idea in a place with which my unfamiliarity was total. Nor would it matter if I was going only to crash and then return to the airport. The travelling time to/from the airport would be important. If someone in a place strange t'me tells me where something is, it's meaningless. In another forum we're venting our rage over hotels who claim to be where they're not thus defrauding travellers who know no better. Uh, how would a hotel that is not where it claims to be "defraud travellers"? By not being where it says. I don't know about you, but if I go to where the hotel claims to be and there's no hotel there then they're going to lose my business. Well, yes, if you have a specific address and are familiar with the town. We're talking about particular hotels one of which claims to be at Union Square but is actually farther than a mile from it and another that claims to be in the Financial District but is also farther than a mile from it. In San Francisco, these are significant distances and the neighborhood of one of those hotels is one of no interest to tourists and of dubious safety for those with such concerns. You're the one who seems incapable of contacting a place of lodging. Of course I am. -- __________________________________________________ _________________ Un San Francisqueño en San Francisco. http://geocities.com/dancefest/ --- http://geocities.com/iconoc/ TouringSFO: http://geocities.com/touringsfo/ - IClast @ Gmail.com -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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Why do people sleep in airports? I always see these people on the news...
In message Peter
Lawrence wrote: But we were discussing not flights that are delayed, but flights that get canceled. (You really should work on your reading comprehension skills.) Most airlines (unless they're JetBlue) cancel flights at least a few hours before their scheduled departure. Of course, there are still occasionally last minute cancellations that do occur and they can be a real pain in the butt. Still, it doesn't hurt to call ahead -- except for cynics like you it seems. I can't speak to most, but I have never had a flight cancelled on me. My brother has had two, both times it wasn't cancelled yet when he arrived to the gate, and in one case wasn't cancelled until about 10 minutes after boarding should have begun. So I would suggest that it is certainly possible for a flight to be cancelled hours before it leaves, but it's also possible for there to be no notice at all. -- If quitters never win, and winners never quit, what fool came up with, "Quit while you're ahead"? |
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Why do people sleep in airports? I always see these people on the news...
Brian Morris:
I've been in airports where they say the flight is on time when it hasn't left where the plane is coming from and there is no way it could be on time. Not necessarily: they could be putting on a separate plane for passengers joining the flight at the city where you are. I had that happen once. Of course, that was in 1977. I don't imagine it happens much now. -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "The singular of 'data' is not 'anecdote.'" | -- Jeff Goldberg |
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