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Lansbury wrote:
On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:31:41 -0800, "Mr. Travel" wrote: Are they worth paying 42 percent more? He obviously considered it was, in the same way I consider paying to fly business class worth it. Our money we spend as we wish to get the service we want. We aren't talking about Business Class. My question was what specifically would make it worth flying the other airlines he mentioned, rather than not paying 42 percent more and flying DL. There isn't much a difference between them in standard economy. |
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On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:08:41 -0000, in rec.travel.air, Graham Harrison
wrote: "Rog'" wrote in message . .. wrote: C'mon. Give Atlanta a break. There are no "satellites" in Atlanta, just a series of terminals, connected by a very efficient underground rail. Atlanta is one of the world's busiest airports, and yet, IME, the most efficient. I've never had a problem going between terminals using the underground shuttles. I like to whine that, no matter which flight I'm taking, its always at the farthest gate. At ATL, as compared to some other airports, that doesn't seem too far. --------------- To the other poster, complaining of the hurricanes. Again, what a preposterous post. Atlanta has its share of bad weather like any other airport in the SE States, but a chance of a hurricane there is perhaps 10-20% of that in Miami or Houston. On the other side, the chance of a winter storm there is incomparably smaller than at any NE or Midwest airport. That post was absurd. About once every 3 or 4 years, rements of a tropical storm will bring in gusts of wind sufficient to cancel or delay flights for a few hours, but that happens more often due to severe thunderstorms at just about every airport. You might as well avoid O'Hare due to the risk of a tornado. I wasn't complaining about customs or immigration. And satellites/terminals who cares? The point is that at most airports once you clear customs and immigration you're out and free. At Atlanta (and Charlotte?) you've got a whole extra layer to get through. When I went through Charlotte in the 90s when they had that arrangement it was just a bit iritating. But with the latest secuity rules it can be a real pain. Unless you are really lucky you have to queue to deposit your checked bag (unless you only have hand baggage) and then queue to go through security at which point you find out that the fluid you bought on the plane isn't permitted through the checkpoint but your checked bag has already disappeared so you can't put the fluid in there and so it gets confiscated. Didin't happen to me (more by good luck than judgement) but I saw several disputes. If you changed planes at Philly you would have had the same problem as you'd have to go through security again at Terminal F. I was actually quite impressed by the security people at Atlanta. Both on arrivl on an international flight and on departure they seemed to be good at organsing people in a friendly way. The queue time was minimal. I have no idea how efficient the hub itslef is because I've never changed planes there (well I did in the mid 70s flying Eastern so that's irrelevant). But that doesn't detract from the fact that instead of stepping from customs into the terminal and then to the road you have to go through security, get on a train, find another carousel in the main terminal and finally get to the road at Atlanta. -- Doug Weller -- A Director and Moderator of The Hall of Ma'at http://www.hallofmaat.com Doug's Archaeology Site: http://www.ramtops.co.uk Amun - co-owner/co-moderator http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Amun/ |
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If you changed planes at Philly you would have had the same problem as
you'd have to go through security again at Terminal F. No, you don't. There's a bus between Terminal F and Terminal C behind security. It's true, if you arrive from overseas and you want to connect to another flight, you have to get screened again at PHL, typically in terminal A. But if you just want to leave, you can leave. |
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