Call me a cynic, but....

Ah, I see. I'll have words on Wednesday for you. ;-)

 

No.

 

<Team America>
#Buck o' Five
</TA>

 

I'm not sure I'd be for it if I was on the jumbo. Although this week it
was small jets and Fokkers, so for now you can crack on with the Jumbo
idea.

 

<AOL> I hate airports at the best of times even if flying business
where I get access to the lounge. Putting me through hours of
unmitigated nonsense will mean I don't fly. The ludicrous measures put
in place by the Americans also means I won't got to the States either
until they stop treating people from the UK - their bosom buddies in the
war on terror - like bloody criminals.

I can only just about tolerate the stupidity that is security,
immigration and customs on Eurostar. It's odd how trains can whizz
through tunnels, over bridges and at the same time cross borders in
Europe without being subjected to the frontier lunacy we have in this
country.

 

My (limited) experience of short haul in Europe is that a huge
proportion of people are away for a day or two and only have hand
luggage to go in the overhead lockers. Flying back from Berlin last year
with BA there was virtually no hold luggage - I was one of very few who
waited by the carousel at Heathrow. Everyone else (90% of the passengers
must have been travelling on business) simply fucked off with their mini
cases on wheels to try to fell as many people in the terminal as
possible.

Long haul tends to have much longer check in queues and far more luggage
being carried with the majority going in the hold. A small proportion of
people - probably those going business or First - may opt to travel only
with cabin luggage as they get a better allowance.

 

I think the current favoured response to comments like this is "****
off".

 

I'm a bit stuffed as most of my flights are short haul. Luckily most
are not into the UK. So I'm not stuffed after all.

 

Heh, to be fair, they treat all non-Merkins like criminals, not just
the British.

I still remember the story of when the Merkins started to put tougher
security measures into place (such as retina scans, etc). They got
really upset when the Brazilians start to fingerprint all Merkins
entering Brazil.

Ah here it was:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/americas/12/30/brazil.usa.immigration.reut
/
http://www.talkleft.com/new_archives/004958.html

 

BWAHAHA. Nice bite.

 

I'm sure it it customary in such circumstances to refer to a
nasally-unusual child of a single-parent family as well.

 

Well you can understand it with the french and the Germans. They are not
playing war games with terror and sending their citizens of to Iraq and
Afghanistan to be slaughtered.

Which goes to show how stupid and arrogant they are. They have still to
scale things back even though the number of tourist arrivals has fallen
since the restrictions came in.

 

If I'm away for less than three or four days I never take hold luggage;
taking hold luggage wastes about 30 minutes or so at each end of the
flight.

 

BA have recently changed their cabin luggage allowance for economy to
two pieces of luggage IIRC.

 

AONTL.

 

Yup. Even for a week in Ecuador, I was just going to take hand luggage.
If I run short of clean shirts and knicks - that's what hotel laundry is
for.

Trip now rescheduled to 30 August and (fingers crossed) biz class from
Schipol with KLM.

I would like my laptop on the flight, plus a couple of books, and my
Travel Scrabble set. I frequently play against myself[1] on long
flights. So I might not ask for the luggage to be checked all the way
through from LHR, so I can retrieve them at Schipol, if the transfer
time allows it.

[1] Anyone who does the obvious edit on this is dead.

 

I'm not in a hurry, as a rule. I just CBA to wait for my luggage. I get
bored, see.

 

He'd never fit enough shoes in hand luggage

 

My time is precious to *me* since it's almost always business travel.

If I've got to retrieve luggage from the carousel on the outbound leg
I'm losing business time, on the homebound leg it's *my* time 'cos the
sooner I get my luggage the sooner I can get out of the fucking airport.

Actually, in general time is the commodity I'm shortest of. I can't
find enough time to fit my life into. Still, I suppose it's better than
the alternative of not having enough life to fit my time into.

 

Well, I don't walk slowly. I walk fucking swiftly and don't use the
walkway escalator things. I don't *DO* slow[1] anything really.

This is why waiting for anything (with the exception of food which is
being prepared) is a real chore for me. I think I'm still about 8 or so
really.

[1] This includes riding bikes, am I pushing my luck cruising to work on
the M4 at 90-110 day in day out? I rarely see a police traffic car
unexpectedly. I think I'll get caught out by an unmarked car but I do
check *every* car for two occupants, non-dealer plates etc. etc. Then
again I've been speeding on the M4 on a daily basis for oh... 15 years
now. # I can't help it if I'm lucky...

<rant>
And whilst I'm on this subject... what is it with fucking bike riders
and filtering? I'm not *that* fast but I keep coming up behind new
bikes and will the riders pull over and let me past? No. I flash my
lights, nothing. Beep my horn and in some cases nothing. Ignorant
cunts filtering in static traffic at 10-15mph ought to have their bikes
confiscated if they refuse to get out of my way when there's a gap they
can pull into. Wankers.
</rant>