[Idyllchat] Airports

[Jay Cloidt]

In the last 3 years, I've flown out of Newark 4 times, and I haven't had any
problems. Admittedly, this is not a huge statical sample, and maybe I'm used
to New York airports, but I haven't had any problems. If you look at flight
times from JFK, La Guardia, or Newark you will notice that the scheduled
flight time is longer than the plane needs to be in the air. A 45 minute
flight from LGA to Pittsburgh is scheduled for 1.5 hours. The 45 minutes
that you taxi before takeoff is actually expected and scheduled in. That's
just the nature of have 3 of the busiest airports in the country. Imagine
air traffic control's job of coordinating all 3 airports who's approach
vectors intersect each other.

It's been my experience that in returning to the US, Newark's
immigration/customs is better than JFK's in general, although the
immigration/customs in terminal 1 of JFK this past September was good. It
looked like it had been recently renovated much like Newark's immigration
was a couple of years ago.

Airports I have had issues with:
Las Vegas - McCarren Airport - McCarren is a very big airport with a single
security access point. This generates huge lines to get through security.
Fortunately, I noticed these lines on the way into Vegas, and planned
accordingly for leaving. And if you cruise through and are left with extra
time while waiting for your plane, they have slot machines in the terminals.

Reykjavik, Iceland - Keflavik airport is a new modern Scandinavian terminal.
Unfortunately, we had to go through a second security check at the gate
while boarding. This would not have been bad except, instead of letting us
on the plane, we were kept in a segregated room until everyone had checked
in. Then we were allowed on the plane. This took 45 minutes with a single
bathroom for the entire plane load of people.

Charles De Gaul:  everyone likes to slam CDG, but if everyone is doing it,
there must be a reason. We had to go from one terminal to another, outside
security to change planes. This is a big complaint with JFK as well, but
fortunately, I usually originate in JFK and don't have to change planes
there.

Venice - the shuttle bus from the boat docks to the terminal (we took a
water taxi) seemed to run very infrequently, and we thought we were going to
miss our flight. It could have just been bad luck. I don't know.

On Nov 20, 2007 9:34 AM, Florence Goldfarb <fgoldfarb at gmail.com> wrote:

> I live in NYC and if I had a choice I would never fly out of JFK--too
> hectic and poorly organized.  I do fly out of Newark occasionally, but
> the departure delays from Newark are terrible.  If Boston seems to be
> a better choice, I would leave from there.
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