I didn't get asked any questions entering Japan in June. If you fill out the declarations form on the plane you just hand it to them, they do a digital passport check, stamp it, and off you go.

CLEAR is $109/year for me with my United status. I think it's going to be "free" when I get my new credit card. I fly almost every week so it more than make sense for me.

Did you know that there's a TSA Pre and CLEAR combined lane at DEN? You have to be both. I've seen the TSA Pre lines at DEN. **** that. It's only at the North checkpoint and you kind of have to look for it.

North Security Checkpoint

Primary checkpoint for TSA PreCheck passengers, open 4 a.m.-7:45 p.m.

CLEAR Customers: A CLEAR lane is available on the east side of this checkpoint for travelers who are CLEAR customers with TSA PreCheck.

That rental car bus was terrible. Nothing like budging in line
People suck

It will be interesting to see the next time we go back.




But, truthfully, is there a perfect airport?

Have you ever flown into Pelston in Michigan?


Modeled after a hunting lodge where you can sit in front of the fire and read books lol


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Eh, the Pre lane looks scary but moves super fast on the North side since they have almost zero general passenger lanes there. I can't ever remember taking more than 10 minutes to get through.

But again, I definitely get that dropping that 10 minutes to 5 minutes would make a big difference if I was flying as much as you are.

100%. But Global Entry includes TSA Precheck, so just get it, IT'S SOOOOOOOO WORTH IT!!! Add lounge and 1st class to the experience and life is good,even on a ground hold...

100% of all of this... I travel internationally for most of my current trips (I DON'T miss work travel in the least) so I do my best to add some buffer during layovers, and that longer buffer is best spent in a lounge. And while I was an American Airlines loyalist 8 years ago, having met friends who work for United, I'm converted. In the last 8 years they've cancelled only one of my flights, and that was because they were clearing jets out of IAH because of a pending hurricane. Lucky for me, my friends know the system and have contacts and had me booked through to NAS on Delta in an hour. I'm blessed in many ways..

O'Hare is the biggest piece of sht airport in the World!

A ****ing nightmare.......

Sky Harbor is fine, especially for how busy it is. They make driving around it easy too. I can pick up someone curb side and drive around the other side to get out without any stop and go traffic. I say that's pretty impressive.

EWR, even after $1B of work that was really poorly done, sucks far worse IMO...

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Near perfect.

Well, it's Chicago, so...

Coincidentally headed into Phoenix today from KC. First time I've been in the new MCI and while I still prefer the old style just because of how easy it was getting in this time wasn't bad at all. Took 20 minutes from being dropped off to being through TSA. Maybe I just got lucky and that's not the norm.

That was my home airport for about 38 years of my life and yes, it's been a dump my whole life. It sucks and massive corruption on the work there.

So on top of the fact of having to walk nearly a mile to get to the gate in the new Southwest terminal 5, no restaurants or bars are open and all they have are crappy vending machines or shit premade garbage in plastic wrap.

To kick it up a notch of complete shittiness, the ****ing construction crew is jackhammering the floor and cutting rebar about 50 ft from me.

I can't get out of here fast enough. :banghead:

Sitting at the airport getting ready for a 5:15am flight to Norfolk VA via Nashville TN.

Nice and quiet but no bars open until after I leave.

There is a young blonde woman, 26-32 my guess, on this flight with white short cowgirl boots, a very tight pair of blue stretchy shorts on, a sports bra and tank top to hold up her well proportioned rack. If there is a seat next to her when we board I'm jumping in.

Total smokeshow!

Holy shit, not sure if there is an upcoming event in Nashville but there is a parade of hotties getting on this flight.

Yowza!

CP's creepy uncle.

R u flying to meet a hooker

I know the area very well. Good times (except for Norfolk itself), lots of great seafood and cool stuff to do...

No business. Have a pilot running for one of my potential clients in the city. Big opportunity.

Sitting here in Nashville waiting to board.

I got stuck in the window seat and a 300 lb heifer sat next to me and she needed a seat belt extender. She had me pinned against the window for most of the flight. This shit sucks.

I promise not to masterbate in the seat next to her. ;)

Did she smell like fat people?

She had a nose ring like you put on a bull or cow to steer them around. She also had a black ball in her face above her lip. She was a disgusting obese snowflake.

Just repulsive. She had me pinned up against the window like a WWE female Wrestler.

Son has a hockey tournament in South Bend beginning of December and I'm trying to decide if I should fly to O'Hare or Midway out of Phoenix. Any suggestions, seems Midway is a little closer to South Bend but never been to Midway, always O'Hare.

Midway 100x out of 100

Only time you should fly into Ohare is if you plan on catching the train into the city and don't need a car

And you're going to drive right by Midway from Ohare anyway so unless there's a significant cost difference, you're choice is clear

Agreed. Midway is a lot easier to navigate, at least if you have a connection. I've mostly used Chicago as a connection point, so I don't know about parking and ground transportation.

Always seemed like a crock that the airlines will charge the hell out of you if your bag is a pound over the limit or if your carry on is an inch too wide, yet the person that outweighs you by 150lbs doesn’t pay extra for their seat.

MIDWAY, MIDWAY, MIDWAY.

**** O'HARE! :cuss:

CHI-O'Hare, ATL, NYC-LaG, PHX-Sky Harbor, LAX, DFW are the worst airports in the US.

Of that group, O'Hare takes the cake for being the worst. NYC-LaG being a close 2nd.

I thought Midway was strictly a Southwest Airlines airport, all other airlines fly in/out of O'Hare.

Delta services ATL out of MDW

There's a handful of other specialty routes from other airlines as well

It's basically the spot for a lot of low cost carriers (Frontier, Allegiant, Volaris, etc.). I assume that space at ORD is much more expensive.

I was surprised to see ViaAir has service to Branson

Glad my MiL wasn't aware of that when we lived in Chicago

I'm planning on using Southwest because of the included bags....Goalie gear adds up otherwise!

Looks like I can go with Southwest into O'Hare Or Midway for about the same cost.

I go to Chicago like five times a year and the most was ten times in a year.



I haven't flown into O'Hare since the 90s. If that answers your question.

I hated every second of O'hare too, but i had been up for about 30 hours and had a 5 hour layover from a transatlantic flight from Munich. Oh, and they changed our gate 3 times and made us sit in the plane on the tarmac for 2.5 hrs. The TSA agent we dealt with was also an asshole.

F that place. Thinking about it makes me want to fedpost.

Midway however was fine, other than it being in the hood.

There's literally a Mexican food spot called Machetes down Cicero from Midway...and its fantastic if you and bros need to sober up before a flight with a 20" quesadilla

You been to the new LGA or living in the past?

It's not even the real hood. Is it shabby? You betcha, but shit there gets a LOT worse than Garfield Ridge

I love watching people deplane at the new LGA. You can always tell who had been there in the past and had no idea they were building an amazing replacement for that old shitty moldy turd of an airport.

It's like watching people walk into the new KCI for the first time, when they were expecting the shit hole semi circle toilets of the past :D

Almost every time someone calls something the hood it isn't. People sound so silly.

When I was in highschool I did volunteer work (read: college application ammunition) and raised money for Cabrini Green before they tore it down.



Let me tell you something about the culture shock going from my sheltered Overland Park life to that.

I've had people refer to my part of Denver as "the inner city". The most dangerous people here are disenfranchised lawyers.

Once again... I'm aware that you're a hip urbanite.

Congrats on surviving the hood LMAO

You want respect, you gotta earn it

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People around here call Leawood Leahood in an effort to make it very public they are sheltered and stupid.

I had a flight get canceled at O'Hare once, and the airline said they'd put us up in a hotel. We got on a bus, and I think they drove us to Mogadishu. It took an hour to get there, we arrived at midnight, and there was no food available in the hotel at all. The area was pretty downscale and I wasn't going to go wander the streets in search of food in the middle of the night, so I went without.

The sad thing is that I got rescheduled for a really early flight, so I couldn't get any breakfast. I had a really busy morning with one meeting after another since I'd arrived late, and then had a lunch meeting scheduled with another person. I was absolutely famished when I showed up at the guy's office and said, "Ready to go to lunch?" The guy was in his forties, but opened his mouth to show me braces. "I just got my braces adjusted," he said, "so let's skip lunch and just meet here in my office."

I ate very well that evening.

It is so ****ing humid here in Norfolk VA. Like a wet blanket.

The driver who picked me up from the airport last time I was in KC told me a story about a woman he picked up who had flown into MCI a few weeks earlier and then landed there again. Once she deplaned at the new airport she was hysterical because she thought somehow she got on the wrong flight.

Genuinely think there’s never been an airport upgrade in this country nearly as dramatic.

Airport was small but easy. First time there.

We're doing a major remodeling project in Denver. If I remember right, they're going to move the main terminal behind security whereas now it's ahead of security. The airport was relatively new when all of the post-9/11 changes hit, so it didn't get to display the original design for very long.

I think they'll also have a viewing area to the underground alien worker area, which will be cool.

I had to run from Gate B to Gate L at O'Hare one time to catch a connection to Toronto while wearing dress shoes. Got blisters on my feet and I was so sweaty once I got on the plane. I changed into Jordan's once I got off the flight even though I was going straight to a meeting once I left the airport.

Yeah, Norfolk is really small since it only really serves the southern side of Hampton roads. The northern side is usually served by Richmond.

LMAO

You want a really "interesting" airport experience? Check out the Tel Aviv airport some time. It is the epitome of an absolute cluster****. No lines, no ropes/pylons to guide people to queue. It is "gates are open, everyone for themselves!" pure chaos.

I laugh d so hard I had the hot af IDF girls who profile the foreign travelers cracking up. (As an aside, holy shit, IDF girls are ridiculously hot....no joke).

Reminds me of airports in India minus the hot girls.

Have to fly to Mexico City for work in October. That...that means LAX. *cries*


man I'm not looking forward to that and it will probably be like 9am so rush hour the whole way.

If you are a single guy between 19-35 and you aren't spending time in Nashville, you are missing out on some of the hottest women I've seen in a while.

Sitting at The Southern Steak and Oyster in the middle of the terminal and surrounded by hotties.

One of the best burgers I ever had here, the Gouda Burger.

Finishing with a double Glenfiddich so I can sleep from Nashville to Phoenix.

Big success in Virginia. Deal signed off on.

Boarding in 15 minutes.......

I'm sitting in American Airlines Admirals Club here at Sky Harbor in Terminal 4 and it looks exactly like being outside sitting by the boarding area. It's an overcrowded zoo in here.

So much for a relaxing quiet space before my flight. ROFL

They need to add an "exclusive" club lounge inside the club lounge.

What was just as funny was the CLEAR line had about 20 people in it clearing security and yet general boarding I walked directly up to the TSA agent to give my ID and boarding pass.

People revolted when Delta wanted to change their points programs.
Less people would be allowed into executive areas because they were becoming too crowded.

I was traveling to Dallas for Christmas one year, and yeah, it was a zoo. Had a long layover, and was sitting at a gate passing time cause it was vacant at the time. A couple of hours go by, and i move to get in line at my gate and i cant find my freaking wallet that has my license credentials to board the flight. Full panic. I went back to the gate where i was chilling and nothing. It was full of people now so I am screwed for sure. So now I am trying to call the pd to file a report, totally freaking out, and I had put my name in at the lost and found. About 30 minutes go by and my vacation everything is screwed. Call comes in over the PA. For “my name” to go to gate whatever it was. I get there and they had me describe what I lost and the contents, and they had the wallet. An awesome couple from Milwaukee had the Christmas spirit and turned it in. All the cash was still there too. There is a Santa Claus.

I lost my passport in the Bangkok airport. That was fun.

I went to an information booth and they didn't have it. I asked if they could call around. They said no one had it. Finally at the last minute I spotted another information booth. Walked up and it was sitting right on their desk. I had to sprint like a mile and just barely made the flight.

Hopefully the line isn't that long for the hooker you're flying to see

Crazy, I literaly met the couple and thanked them. Not a lot positive I can say about Milwaukee, but those folks represented Wisconsin well.

The United Club was rather full last Tuesday when I was coming back from Cozumel but it was SOOOOOOOOOO much better than being out in the terminal. It makes 3-4 hour layovers SOOOOO much nicer.

TSA Precheck is 100% worth it in my opinion. I honestly don't understand the value prop of CLEAR, and CLEAR without Precheck shouldn't even exist.

I don't understand CLEAR either. Somehow they can afford to pay 5+ people to mostly just stand around at every security checkpoint in the US, and occasionally escort someone to the front of the line. How does that make money?

You are ****ed up in the head. :shake:

You too :shrug:

Thanks for letting us know. I was just wondering.

It's free for me, but it's becoming worthless at many airports. Last time at DEN, I had to answer questions about previous addresses I've lived at, had to get my picture taken and then got a text on my phone that I had to acknowledge. It was ridiculous. Pre Check only now for me.

The Southwest non-assigned seating s*** is awful. And even if that was great the airline is so awful, unreliable, and trifling.

I assume he's kidding...

Trade show but nice try.

Do you realize you spend 1000'xs more time than I do talking about and thinking about my escort exploits from 2011-2014 than I do? :rolleyes:

I really think your jealous. I will pay for one for you to sooth your unhealthy obsession.

Isn't your GF putting out anymore?

Sex life dull?

You just aren't doing it for her anymore since you won't marry her? ROFL

And once again you assume wrong.

He is right. The lineup for the Southwest flight yesterday that was close to my gate was orderly while the mass cluster**** at my gate since flight was 100% full was like a mosh pit at an Insane Clown Posse concert.

I wouldn't know. I'm United 1K. I don't have to line up, unlike peasants like you.

I neither love nor hate Southwest's boarding style. I'd rather have an assigned seat, but I'm good at setting an alarm to remind me to check in exactly 24 hours in advance. I haven't ended up in the C's in years and regularly manage to get in the A's. I appreciate that they don't have all the obnoxious fees of other airlines, seats being one of them.

But I do feel bad for people who get on last and end up having to split up their group because of it. The same thing can happen with other airlines of course, but at least you know it when you book and can make a decision about it.