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To: blau993
However, I am highly unlikely to shop in a duty free shop at my arrival airport, where (a) I am usually tired and cranky, and (b) I just want to get out of the airport as quickly as possible.

You forgot (c) You need to run to make your connection because your flight arrived 1 1/2 hours late.

6 posted on 08/14/2006 10:43:05 AM PDT by jalisco555 ("Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us and pigs treat us as equals" Winston Churchill)
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To: jalisco555

On my last trans-Atlantic flight, the plane arrived on time but then we had to wait 45 minutes on the tarmac for them to assign us a gate. Delta. Fortunately I didn't have a close connection.


7 posted on 08/14/2006 10:52:30 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: jalisco555

That too. The problem is that there is nothing I can buy in a duty free shop that I really NEED. So, there is no way I am going to shop in one just to buy something I like at a good price unless the shopping fills up time that I have no better use for.


9 posted on 08/14/2006 11:16:52 AM PDT by blau993
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To: jalisco555; blau993
You forgot (c) You need to run to make your connection because your flight arrived 1 1/2 hours late.

And (d) You need to get to baggage claim before some joker steals your luggage (assuming the staff hasn't already gotten anything valuable).

20 posted on 08/14/2006 1:19:48 PM PDT by steve-b ("Creation Science" is to the religous right what "Global Warming" is to the socialist left.)
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