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1 posted on 11/22/2023 1:13:53 PM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Years ago, I got in the habit of traveling ON THANKSGIVING DAY. Much less traveling, more seats on the planes, less time at the airport. Worst case is we get our turkey on Saturday.


2 posted on 11/22/2023 1:16:13 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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Never travel during holidays if you can help it. Even during the slowest times of the year airports stress me the hell out. Too many what ifs. That security line is insane.


3 posted on 11/22/2023 1:17:47 PM PST by toddausauras (Trump Lake 2024....Go down swinging!)
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To: Red Badger
I remember lines like that at the Denver airport on ordinary days.

4 posted on 11/22/2023 1:18:32 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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We have TSA Pre-Check. Problem is, nowadays, so does everyone else.


5 posted on 11/22/2023 1:21:06 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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The bombing in Niagara Falls will only make it worse.


8 posted on 11/22/2023 1:27:33 PM PST by rdl6989 ( )
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I haven’t flown since I retired several years ago, and have absolutely no desire to ever fly again. If I have to go any distance I will drive myself or take the train.


13 posted on 11/22/2023 1:43:54 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: Red Badger
I have a NEXUS card which allows a holder to pass easily and quickly over the US/Canada border.It also features TSA Pre Check,which is very handy at airports.
15 posted on 11/22/2023 1:49:26 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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I can’t even imagine facing holiday air travel right now. If we can’t drive we don’t go.


17 posted on 11/22/2023 1:52:49 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Red Badger

I drive everywhere. I don’t care if it takes me two or three days.


22 posted on 11/22/2023 2:35:16 PM PST by roving (👌⚓Deplorable Listless Vessel with Trumpitist who looks Trumpish)
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To: Red Badger

I just don’t travel the day before Thanksgiving.

Long life of experience on this day.

Whether I drive, take a bus, a train, a ship or plane, this Wednesday is always going to be its own special hell on Earth.


23 posted on 11/22/2023 2:37:38 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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Anyone ever hear of TSA accomplishing anything other than p!ssing off millions?


25 posted on 11/22/2023 2:39:58 PM PST by doorgunner69 (When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty)
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Look at all the masks—omg.


26 posted on 11/22/2023 2:42:50 PM PST by cgbg ("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
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I said “no” to flying after heightened security after 9/11. Do I look Arabic? No. Yet everyone was treated as a potential terrorist.

Then there was covid. Pilots retired rather than get the shot and flights were delayed and cancelled. I never got the shot and would not want to wear a mask, so who knows how I would be treated? Flying commercial has no appeal. Relatives die and I don’t go to funerals. Sorry, but I don’t like driving long distances as much now as in the past, and I’m not flying.

Flying has even less appeal than going to Disneyworld.


30 posted on 11/22/2023 3:12:10 PM PST by ChessExpert (Required for informed consent: "We have a new, experimental vaccine.")
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BWI looks about the same.


33 posted on 11/22/2023 4:04:03 PM PST by Rural_Michigan
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9am this morning At Denver International the missus and I strolled through TSA Pre-Check with the only delay being they pulled my bag to inspect the chocolate chips I was carrying home.

No delays on flight to Las Vegas, and no delay on connecting flight to Bellingham Washington. Both planes only 85% capacity.


34 posted on 11/22/2023 6:27:50 PM PST by Go_Raiders (An nescis, mi fili, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur? - Axel Oxenstierna)
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