Posted on 07/15/2019 6:13:06 AM PDT by C19fan
Don’t fly. Don’t go to NY. Don’t hire rides. Save your hard earned dollars.
Welcome to what a EMP will do but a EMP will last Decades not hours or days.
When my family visits they fly into LAX. I have them take the bus vs. me picking them up. Pickup at LAX is atrocious. Drop off is easy. I came through there in June and because of renovation or whatever now pickup and drop off are on the same level. Makes it really bad and congested.
Two of our kids live in CA. One lives in San Clemente so we fly into Long Beach which has to be one of the best airports ever. The other one lives in Ojai so we’re pretty much forced to use LAX which is a nightmare. Lately we’ve been flying into Burbank but the car rental office must be more than a mile walk from the terminal.
There is an Airport Express bus that runs from Bakersfield to LAX and back. It’s super easy to catch so I just have them use that. I will drop them off to fly home though.
Just went through there in May - ditto. It’s a bad sign when they have to hire power hungry, screaming people just to keep the bus lines moving. Very much a third world experience.
My last time at LaGuardia I was picked up by a rogue driver before I realized what was going on - she drove like a maniac but the price wasn’t bad.
PHX is very nice now, especially the renovated Terminal 3 (Delta). Very easy to get in and out by car. It’s almost as nice as an Asian airport - except there are hardly any international flights, and none at all to Asia. So I have to go to LAX first, anyway. :(
All the other travelers seem stressed though.
There are a lot of places I’ve not been, but of the U.S. airports I know, the best is Indianapolis. It’s a smaller city which of course helps, but the terminal is relatively new and built to modern standards. This is also the secret of so many big Asian airports in major cities. Get out to second and third tier cities and a lot of Asian airports can be pretty dreary. So many of the big U.S. airports are just OLD. They have 75 or more years of retrofitting and expansions layered onto them, and a lot of it simply doesn’t fit together well. You can’t take an airport out of service for five years to do a complete rebuild. Indianapolis was farsighted enough to acquire a lot of land for future expansion a long time ago. That permitted construction of a completely new terminal some years back. Makes a world of difference.
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