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re: Longest airport layover you've gone through? Did you sleep in the airport, or get a hotel?
Posted on 6/29/22 at 9:32 pm to VermilionTiger
Posted on 6/29/22 at 9:32 pm to VermilionTiger
You poor people who fly’s commercial ?
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Posted on 6/29/22 at 9:33 pm to VermilionTiger
I use to schedule long layovers in Atlanta because Friday was a paid travel day but if your flight left at say 3, they expected you to work half a day. Well, if I had to leave at 9am then I didn't have to work. I'd go drink at the Budweiser bar that use to be there getting paid to drink free drinks waiting on the afternoon connection.
Posted on 6/29/22 at 9:34 pm to VermilionTiger
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Longest airport layover you've gone through? Did you sleep in the airport, or get a hotel?
18 hours. Got a hotel.
Happened at LAX last Friday.
Posted on 6/29/22 at 9:35 pm to VermilionTiger
10 hours in Sao Paulo.
I had bacterial pneumonia at the time. Had spent the last 6 weeks in Rio. I started feeling bad a week before my departure. The 4 days before my flight I could barely leave my Airbnb. The people that owned the place thought I was going to die because of the coughing.
Somehow I made it to the airport and that first short flight from Rio to Sao Paulo.
Once I settled down in the Sao Paulo airport, the thought of 10 hours without being able to lie down seemed impossible.
I sat there hunched over with my head between my hands for around 4 hours, and then I remember, I actually started to feel better for the first time in days.
I made it through and to Miami by the next day, and was sick for another 2 weeks.
I had bacterial pneumonia at the time. Had spent the last 6 weeks in Rio. I started feeling bad a week before my departure. The 4 days before my flight I could barely leave my Airbnb. The people that owned the place thought I was going to die because of the coughing.
Somehow I made it to the airport and that first short flight from Rio to Sao Paulo.
Once I settled down in the Sao Paulo airport, the thought of 10 hours without being able to lie down seemed impossible.
I sat there hunched over with my head between my hands for around 4 hours, and then I remember, I actually started to feel better for the first time in days.
I made it through and to Miami by the next day, and was sick for another 2 weeks.
This post was edited on 6/29/22 at 9:50 pm
Posted on 6/29/22 at 9:36 pm to VermilionTiger
booked a private plan for 350
Posted on 6/29/22 at 9:37 pm to Ryan3232
Airport furniture is purposely built so you can’t sleep comfortably.
Posted on 6/29/22 at 9:38 pm to HoboDickCheese
quote:I've only flown twice
I’ve never flown
It was a long time ago, but I recall reading 25% of the population will never fly in their lifetimes, and another 25% will only fly once.
So all this money and effort spent on airlines and airports is for a small minority of people
Posted on 6/29/22 at 9:39 pm to VermilionTiger
Had about a 7 hour in Dallas a month ago.
Posted on 6/29/22 at 9:39 pm to James11111
Spent the night in DFW. I learned in the middle of the night to go to the E concourse to get away from the noise of the cleaners
Posted on 6/29/22 at 9:40 pm to VermilionTiger
Stuck in Dallas overnight on a layover from Denver to Baton Rouge due to an ice storm.
I was in shorts and a T-shirt and tried to sleep jack-knifed between too chairs but it was so damn cold in that terminal that we were all frozen. You could feel literal wind coming down the halls. They gave us each a blanket, but one poor older lady was about to freeze to death so we gave her our blankets to keep her warm.
One guy broke into a XpresSpa so he could sleep on one of the massage tables.
I didn’t sleep a wink.
To this day I wear pants and sleeves any time I fly, just in case.
I was in shorts and a T-shirt and tried to sleep jack-knifed between too chairs but it was so damn cold in that terminal that we were all frozen. You could feel literal wind coming down the halls. They gave us each a blanket, but one poor older lady was about to freeze to death so we gave her our blankets to keep her warm.
One guy broke into a XpresSpa so he could sleep on one of the massage tables.
I didn’t sleep a wink.
To this day I wear pants and sleeves any time I fly, just in case.
This post was edited on 6/29/22 at 9:41 pm
Posted on 6/29/22 at 9:43 pm to MarsellusWallace
quote:Not bragging.
Rookie numbers to be bragging about. Some do that in less than two years.
But I will now.
Mostly discretionary personal travel. But “work-related”.
If I had to actually fly 20 times per year for work, I’d no longer work.
This post was edited on 6/29/22 at 9:44 pm
Posted on 6/29/22 at 9:44 pm to VermilionTiger
I would definitely draw a distinction between layovers and cancellations. Years ago, my flight out of Rome got cancelled so I "got stuck" in Rome for an extra two nights on the airline's dime. I know, poor fricking me 
I got stuck overnight in either Houston or Dallas once due to something or another that I can't remember, and the airline paid for my hotel.
As far as cooling my jets in an airport? I don't know, probably something along the lines of 8-10 hours. Read, walk the airport, eat a meal. Read, walk the airport, eat another meal. It's not exactly my idea of a good time, but it's not the end of the world.
I got stuck overnight in either Houston or Dallas once due to something or another that I can't remember, and the airline paid for my hotel.
As far as cooling my jets in an airport? I don't know, probably something along the lines of 8-10 hours. Read, walk the airport, eat a meal. Read, walk the airport, eat another meal. It's not exactly my idea of a good time, but it's not the end of the world.
Posted on 6/29/22 at 9:47 pm to Kafka
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25% of the population will never fly in their lifetimes, and another 25% will only fly once.
Us pop or world?
Posted on 6/29/22 at 9:48 pm to Kirby59
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Spent the night in DFW.
About 5 years ago I had a flight out of DFW at like 6am. Bad tornados went through the night before and shut the airport down. I remember arriving at the airport and just seeing lines a mile long of people who had clearly been there 12+ hours trying to figure out how to rebook their cancelled flights from last night.
Actually the worst situation I may have seen is flying out of Columbia, SC which is a tiny airport. Bad fog caused the two earlier flights to be cancelled, so my flight was like triple booked. Was a mess because at least 3 people had a ticket for each seat. Vouchers got up to a couple grand before they got enough people to voluntarily miss the flight
Posted on 6/29/22 at 9:52 pm to VermilionTiger
Had to go to Istanbul a few times for work. First trip required a 3 hour layover at CDG awaiting an Air France flight to IST.
Second trip, my Delta PIT-CDG flight (which was on a narrow body) was delayed because of severe weather, and I missed my connection to Ataturk. So I had to hang out at CDG for about 6 hours for my Air France connection.
Second trip, my Delta PIT-CDG flight (which was on a narrow body) was delayed because of severe weather, and I missed my connection to Ataturk. So I had to hang out at CDG for about 6 hours for my Air France connection.
Posted on 6/29/22 at 9:53 pm to VermilionTiger
6 hours in Schiphol enroute to Nigeria. Great time to catch the 10 minute train ride to downtown Amsterdam. On the way home, 10.5ish hours in Legos, Nigeria airport. Arrived at 12:00pm, international flight departed at 10:30pm. Then in Luanda, Angola...same thing...arrive at noonish, flight departed at 10:30ish.
Posted on 6/29/22 at 9:53 pm to cable
Similar situation, our family was flying back from Seattle to New Orleans on United. There was an issue down the line with planes and weather; at check-in they told us we were going to be a day late, and they were going to put us up in Denver after our 1st leg and get us home the next morning.
Our 1st leg to Denver was supposed to be a few hours late, and get us there around 7 or 8 PM. We looked forward to going out to eat and seeing the city at night (none of us had been there). Of course, the plane was much later than that and we didn't get to Denver until 11 PM, so we just went to sleep in our hotel.
Next morning we were comped breakfast, they brought us to the airport and got us on a early flight home. Only MY luggage didn't arrive.
Last time we ever flew United.
Our 1st leg to Denver was supposed to be a few hours late, and get us there around 7 or 8 PM. We looked forward to going out to eat and seeing the city at night (none of us had been there). Of course, the plane was much later than that and we didn't get to Denver until 11 PM, so we just went to sleep in our hotel.
Next morning we were comped breakfast, they brought us to the airport and got us on a early flight home. Only MY luggage didn't arrive.
Last time we ever flew United.
Posted on 6/29/22 at 9:55 pm to VermilionTiger
Slept in airport in LA one night on the way back from Hawaii
Landed in LA at midnight and slept for a voucher for free flight. About 10 hrs.
That's when vouchers were good for any flight in US, not a dollar amount.
I did that any chance I got cause those vouchers were gold!.
They would constantly overlook flights and ask a few to stay back for a voucher and take a later flight.
Landed in LA at midnight and slept for a voucher for free flight. About 10 hrs.
That's when vouchers were good for any flight in US, not a dollar amount.
I did that any chance I got cause those vouchers were gold!.
They would constantly overlook flights and ask a few to stay back for a voucher and take a later flight.
Posted on 6/29/22 at 9:56 pm to GeauxTigers0107
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On the way home, 10.5ish hours in Legos, Nigeria airport. Arrived at 12:00pm, international flight departed at 10:30pm. Then in Luanda, Angola...same thing...arrive at noonish, flight departed at 10:30ish.
Africa is just different. Same experience in Kenya multiple times
Posted on 6/29/22 at 10:04 pm to OleVaught14
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Actually the worst situation I may have seen is flying out of Columbia, SC which is a tiny airport. Bad fog caused the two earlier flights to be cancelled, so my flight was like triple booked. Was a mess because at least 3 people had a ticket for each seat. Vouchers got up to a couple grand before they got enough people to voluntarily miss the flight
The small airports are miserable for delays. Not enough restaurants and often a lack of seating.
Back in October 2021 American Airlines canceled a lot of main light flights because of a pilot backlash against vaccine mandates. But this soft strike didn’t impact their regional carriers.
I got rebooked on my flight out of BTR because my initial flight between DFW and ORD was canceled. I was confused at the time because American gave me an option to fly through Grand Rapids to get between Dallas and Chicago if I wanted to get home that night - obviously Grand Rapids is no hub, but it wasn’t impacted by the main line service failure. Very weird routing but I guess that was what they did for some people when their main line routes were totally screwed up.
I just decided to wait an extra day and go back on my normal BTR-DFW-ORD route rather than risk getting stuck at a tiny airport like Grand Rapids. Figured things would be back to normal the next day.
When I got to the Baton Rouge the next day, the airport was surprisingly busy towards the B concourse. Turns out that American was still routing people through smaller airports on their regional carriers because their pilots were still doing a sick out (or whatever they called it). There were people connecting through Baton fricking Rouge to get between Charlotte and Dallas. I assume they were doing this in other small airports too.
I had never seen people have to connect in a tiny airport like that before. Probably will never see it again in the US.
This post was edited on 6/29/22 at 10:07 pm
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