Oh the joys of air travel

David G

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This will be my fourth week back and forth to New Mexico, I have two more weekly trips then home for a week.

My new engineer is going to be living in New Mexico for the 6 month project, he is getting married in July in Iowa. He has been trying to get home for the weekend to work on wedding plans since Friday night, looks like he "might" make it home by tonight.

I am going to have him stay home tomorrow, so I will fly out early and cover for him.
 
Don't know if you use Hertz car rental, I call them 'Hurts'. They were the absolute worst last year on a trip to Charlotte.
 
I have had pretty good luck with Hertz.

The "easiest" flights for me from Cedar Rapids to Albuquerque are on United. I used to fly them all the time, but quit about ten years ago because of poor service. I gave them a try on two of the trips, one trip had a cancelled and a late flight, the other had one late flight. One of my engineers wanted to fly on them, he has had at least one late on each leg, and has taken 48 hours this last time to get back. I am going back to American.

I usually flew American when flying west and Delta when going east.
 
Been there done that, don't miss it. I retired 5 years ago and haven't been on a plane or to an airport since then. I still have like 400k frequent flyer miles on United and I am not sure if they will ever get used. Hard to pack a tractor in your carry on....

OTJ
 

Wife and I made five vacation trips to Europe when we were in our fifties. I am glad that we did it then because I wouldn't want to now.
 
I've flown SouthWest about 95% of the time, never been disappointed. We paid a little money years ago for the TSA prechecks, definitely worth the money.
 
I would never fly standby anymore, all flights are full, maybe will get a little better when 737's get going again.
 
I flew to Florida a month and half ago to bring back a semi load of equipment. My first time flying on a 'big plane'. Really easy to board out of Flint MI, everything went real well, no wait. Got on the plane with 6 in my crew also bringing trucks back. All 6 of us had a whole 3 seat row to ourselves, not crowded at all. I get motion sickness pretty bad, but wanted to see how it was gonna be without any medication. I wish I hadn't. I got so sick on the way down, luckily the flight knly took 2 hours and 15 minutes. I didn't barf, but if it took much longer, I would have for sure. The banking turns and turbulence are what really messed me up. Now, I'll make sure to take my Dramamine before I fly on a big plane again.
 
I'm 58 years old, and flew for the first time in my life about 3 weeks ago. Went from Buffalo, New York, to Las Vegas. Used South West. Never being up in a plane of any kind, I didn't know how I was going to react. Heck, it didn't bother me what so ever. I was surprised. Was expecting SOME kind of reaction. Made a video out the window while taking off.
 
Better use-em or lose-em. They expire. I lost 30k with American......but I was tired of the cattle car MD 80s....at 6'5, 250#, San Jose or Boston flights were a nightmare, especially when bucking the Jet Stream.
 

If you go again, try to sit over the wing. Least amount of movement in turbulence in that area. My kids fight motion sickness, no fun.
 
I first flew as a passenger in 1958 on an Eastern Airlines Constellation from Chicago to Atlanta. Those were the days when a lot of "holding" was done in ladder stacks when the weather was bad and it was bad. T'storms, lightning, severe turbulence, etc. I went through military flight training in 1960 when man had been flying for 57 years. I flew for the next 58 years (military, instructor, commercial, airline, etc) One year longer than "they" had been flying when I first began. Once I became a pilot, turbulence never bothered me. As long as I could grab hold of the radio knobs to change frequencies everything was OK. Then they went to glass cockpits which was a whole new experience. When you were about to poke a screen your hand would fly up and hit an oil pressure indicator or something. I much preferred the old knobs that you could grab hold of. I flew with a girl who got airsick very quickly and she bought two wrist bracelets with the ball bearing in each that presses against the inner wrist. She said that helped a lot. She wore one on each wrist. I flew with another girl who was sitting in the co-pilot's seat barfing into a bag and I told her it was good for her to be getting this experience early in her flying career. She managed to say "thank you" very weakly. I just laughed.
 
I could go on for hours/days/ but I happened to think of a comment one of our stews (now they're called flight attendants) who was raised in England and could mimic Winston Churchill to perfection said, as we were watching passengers fight over their luggage at the old terminal building at Newark, NJ: "Nevah have so many been pizzed off by so few". (;>))
 
(quoted from post at 19:20:54 06/10/19) I first flew as a passenger in 1958 on an Eastern Airlines Constellation from Chicago to Atlanta. Those were the days when a lot of "holding" was done in ladder stacks when the weather was bad and it was bad. T'storms, lightning, severe turbulence, etc. I went through military flight training in 1960 when man had been flying for 57 years. I flew for the next 58 years (military, instructor, commercial, airline, etc) One year longer than "they" had been flying when I first began. Once I became a pilot, turbulence never bothered me. As long as I could grab hold of the radio knobs to change frequencies everything was OK. Then they went to glass cockpits which was a whole new experience. When you were about to poke a screen your hand would fly up and hit an oil pressure indicator or something. I much preferred the old knobs that you could grab hold of. I flew with a girl who got airsick very quickly and she bought two wrist bracelets with the ball bearing in each that presses against the inner wrist. She said that helped a lot. She wore one on each wrist. I flew with another girl who was sitting in the co-pilot's seat barfing into a bag and I told her it was good for her to be getting this experience early in her flying career. She managed to say "thank you" very weakly. I just laughed.

I remember as a kid building a kit model of a Constellation. It was wood. Perhaps before they started making plastic models.
 
(quoted from post at 00:15:57 06/10/19) I flew to Florida a month and half ago to bring back a semi load of equipment. My first time flying on a 'big plane'. Really easy to board out of Flint MI, everything went real well, no wait. Got on the plane with 6 in my crew also bringing trucks back. All 6 of us had a whole 3 seat row to ourselves, not crowded at all. I get motion sickness pretty bad, but wanted to see how it was gonna be without any medication. I wish I hadn't. I got so sick on the way down, luckily the flight knly took 2 hours and 15 minutes. I didn't barf, but if it took much longer, I would have for sure. The banking turns and turbulence are what really messed me up. Now, I'll make sure to take my Dramamine before I fly on a big plane again.
You flew Allegiant.
That is our first choice airline to go to.
Not only cheap, but all flights are direct.
No waiting in some hub airport all day for the next flight.
 
My 2'd wife is Colombian and flew to Cali a month ago just before her mother died and was there for funeral and visits with friends and relatives. We have used Copa Air (Panama) to fly there often. Today her son got her a flight starting at 5am(3:30 at airport) to Panama City and plane change to Chicago where she got wheelchair assistance with luggage and was thru customs by 1;50pm with no extra charge for 2 luggage + carry on.But it doesn't always go that fast. A few years ago, we had the same flight on American delayed and finally canceled because of a plane problem and we spent 32 hrs coming thru Bogata and Miami.
 

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