Worst & Best Airports

[Supermoon]

Couldn't tell ya. I haven't set foot in Denny's since the mid aughts.



You can https://boxmarts.com/campaign/dennys...t-waffle-house

The baby onesie is a great one

[zion zig zag]

Poor Huddle House, just left out of the convo.

[BmillsSkier]

Poor Huddle House, just left out of the convo.

Huddle House brings to mind fond memories of College of Charleston coeds and has no place in a discussion about Spirit Airlines and Waffle House.

[old goat]

I'm sure I'm not the first to say it, but Heathrow sucks. The walks are miles long. The main seating area is cramped, uncomfortable and loud because for some reason 3/4 of the space is taken up by the duty free. Few places to eat and they all suck. No trouble with passport control this time. (One time the line was huge but they were pulling people with tight connections and sending them to a special line.) Virgin did one cool thing--did our ticket and passport check entering the final waiting area so when it came time to board everyone could zip through.

The security for the Channel ferries is really tight. Check in, then Passport check, then check under the hood and in the trunk. Then another passport check. They were telling people to come 2 hours early although we sailed through, probably because we went to Dunkirk, not Calais.

[BmillsSkier]

Not stoked to lose my Sky Club easy access with my Delta Platinum AmEx next year.

Don’t fly enough for anything other than low tier status, have a regular Platinum AmEx which looks like it will still work until 2025 and then likely go away.

I get not allowing anyone on a Basic Economy ticket to purchase a Club pass to help cut crowds, so it looks like comfort+ will be the way forward at a minimum.

Based in ATL obviously Delta is king and I actually like flying them over any other airline not named Emirates so I’m looking to find a card or best path forward to at least keep Club access without having to drop $75k a year on spend requirements. It’s nice to be able to use the lounge with the fam before trips especially when you have to be at the airport so early anymore.

Anyone else looking into this?

[BC.]

Flight to ATL yesterday lands without issue and before the plane is done taxing to the gate a group of passengers from steerage stand up, open the overhead bins grab their bags and book it to the front of the plane where they were met by the flight attendants telling them to go sit back down right by us in Comfort +.

They start hyper-explaining that they don't want to miss their connection and need to get off first. OK says the attendant, when is your connection? 3pm, international to the DR.

It's 1:45 when this happened.

Attendant asks them again to sit down and they still persisted that they couldn't risk missing their connection in an hour and fifteen minutes from then.

Then the lady sitting in the window seat in my row gets up and says "I'm on that flight too and I need to get off first so I don't miss my connection" and then she proceeds to stand on her seat, kind of squished between the ceiling and the armrest and proceeds to start to make her way over the person in the middle and towards me.

"SIT DOWN MA'AM"

She looked like someone just shit in her Cheerios and slowly sat back down.

The group that bum-rushed the front started slowly retreating back to their seats and the attendant made an announcement to the plane that if anyone is not making a connection, please remain seated so that those with one can exit first.

We pull up to the gate and of course once the seatbelt light went off the entire plane stood up and flooded the aisle.

The group from the back found themselves right back next to me and the woman in our aisle was now forcing her way past the guy in the middle seat and me only to end up jammed in the aisle with everyone else and her ass in my face as I remained sitting. She started to get agitated at everyone in her way and started loudly telling people to sit down as she tried to force her way to the overhead bins a row behind us where her bag was. She was met with some not so kind remarks as we all knew exactly how much time she had to make her connection. This went on for the next 10 minutes until everyone around our row was able to walk and deplane.

I saw this lady run down the jetway when she got off. The kicker? Guess who I saw in line at Chick Fil A as I was casually strolling down the concourse (C) 10 minutes later? Guess where International is? (F). Guess who wasn't in that big of a hurry but was a self important freak? Her.

Man, the flying public is something else.

That sounds like every flight I’ve been on for the past “fill in the blank” years.

The latest trend I am seeing is the people who are getting on “late(r)/last”…..searching for overhead baggage space/ slim pickings, so they are taking out/moving people’s bags that had already had them up there when they boarded earlier……


Humans……it’s why any public service job should immediately get double the pay they are getting now.

[zion zig zag]

Anyone else looking into this?

Lots of hand-wringing and talk over the Delta changes in the Travel Hacks thread. Short story, yes, I think a lot of us are looking at different cards and strategies now.

[summit]

they are taking out/moving people’s bags that had already had them up there when they boarded earlier……

Wait... rearranging a bin so it all fits is fine... but taking out someone's bag and putting their in? And what do they do with it???

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

Not stoked to lose my Sky Club easy access with my Delta Platinum AmEx next year.

Don’t fly enough for anything other than low tier status, have a regular Platinum AmEx which looks like it will still work until 2025 and then likely go away.

I get not allowing anyone on a Basic Economy ticket to purchase a Club pass to help cut crowds, so it looks like comfort+ will be the way forward at a minimum.

Based in ATL obviously Delta is king and I actually like flying them over any other airline not named Emirates so I’m looking to find a card or best path forward to at least keep Club access without having to drop $75k a year on spend requirements. It’s nice to be able to use the lounge with the fam before trips especially when you have to be at the airport so early anymore.

Anyone else looking into this?

Isn't a Centurion lounge supposed to open up at ATL?

[BmillsSkier]

Isn't a Centurion lounge supposed to open up at ATL?

Good point, and from the last renderings I saw a year or so ago it looks like it would be better than most Sky Lounges with several outdoor areas, more space and a bourbon bar. That said, I haven't heard anything about when it will be open.

I don't see giving up my Delta Platinum AmEx just cause I like racking up Skymiles with everyday purchases but the constant whittling down of benefits is becoming really annoying.

[Supermoon]

Centurion Lounges are way nicer than Delta lounges. You can get into them with the purple Reserve Skymiles card right now. Not sure if that will change.

[riser4]

Anyone else looking into this?

Leads, yeah sure. I'll uh, just check with the boys down at the Crime Lab. They uh, got uh, four more detectives working on the case. They've got us working in shifts.

[BmillsSkier]

Looks like Delta heard the cries from the peanut gallery and will be walking back some of the changes.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/delta-ceo...ges/index.html

[Supermoon]

Looks like Delta heard the cries from the peanut gallery and will be walking back some of the changes.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/delta-ceo...ges/index.html

“We wanted to rip the band aid off, but now we are going to stick it right back on and have to rip it off again next year.”

Smart guy.

[BmillsSkier]

“We wanted to rip the band aid off, but now we are going to stick it right back on and have to rip it off again next year.”

Smart guy.

He was speaking in front of the hometown audience too. He knew if he didn't walk it back he'd be the one leaving next.

I get that the lounges were a shitshow. I saw it every time I flew: long lines out the doors of each, once inside, especially with the smaller lounges, it looked like adult daycare with messes everywhere, boorish loudmouths getting drunk and scowling status flyers.

But a complete bar on those that spend money to fly your airline to appease only the top tier members was clearly too far. I think you'll see a stratification of services that will let a large amount of Delta AmEx travelers back in, but I think the ban on steerage class flyers in the lounges will stick. Want to be in a lounge, don't buy the budget ticket; that's an easy one to make. Telling people that pay $500+ a year to simply have their Delta card that they've lost all their perks wasn't good PR.

[skaredshtles]

<snip> it looked like adult daycare

This is GOLD, Jerry. GOLD!

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

I think we're committed to ditching the skymiles card. Looking at going over to the Amex Platinum and being free agents. We would get centurion lounge access in Denver (plus) which would now be our hub instead of SLC, but most of our flying would now be with United (minus!).

Trying to pencil out the yearly card fee increase to see if it works.

[zion zig zag]

I think we're committed to ditching the skymiles card. Looking at going over to the Amex Platinum and being free agents. We would get centurion lounge access in Denver (plus) which would now be our hub instead of SLC, but most of our flying would now be with United (minus!).

Trying to pencil out the yearly card fee increase to see if it works.

Lounge access isn't top of the list of my concerns over what I 'lost' but it factors in for sure. I've already made Plat status through 2024 (I'm the segment that's the problem they are trying to fix here) but we'll see what happens after that. I'll see what the roll back changes are, but I'll likely be moving my spend off the co-branded Amex. I'm not holding my breath for much of a concession.

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

Unfortunately our flight schedules out of the BZN mean long layovers at a hub.

I can hang in the general population yard within reason, but wifey is pretty against the idea.

[riser4]

Never used a lounge. I am unwashed masses. I don't drink before or during flights. The idea of a hotel room with a clean place to take a private shit and a shower, maybe a nap is more appealing. I also don't travel often and I go to great lengths to avoid layovers when I do.

My only experience with an upgrade to 1st class was $51 each on the outbound journey to DC on American Airlines out of BTV (operated by one of the regionals). We had rock bottom prices for basic economy seats and with that extra $$ it was still lower than the "normal" price. Not gonna lie, even on one of those little jets, the wider seat was nice. No such luck coming home. This is all a long winded way of saying that I can identify with those who get status to get the upgrades.

[montanaskier]

I think we're committed to ditching the skymiles card. Looking at going over to the Amex Platinum and being free agents. We would get centurion lounge access in Denver (plus) which would now be our hub instead of SLC, but most of our flying would now be with United (minus!).

Trying to pencil out the yearly card fee increase to see if it works.

We have the platinum and love it. I think the benefits pay for the high fee and with all the traveling I do, the lounge benefits are nice.


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[The AD]

I don't drink before or during flights.

I usually don't, either. I'd rather not have to get up and pee during a flight if I can avoid it.

[liv2ski]

I usually don't, either. I'd rather not have to get up and pee during a flight if I can avoid it.

Pffft, rookies.

[liv2ski]

I usually don't, either. I'd rather not have to get up and pee during a flight if I can avoid it.

Pffft, rookies.

[riser4]

Pffft, rookies.

I'm not sitting next to you on any flight. I don't want to smell it or get wet when you piss yourself and the seat.