American semi-meltdown?
- Thread starter Fixtur
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CFI A&P
Exploring the world one toilet at a time.
Going to guess the IndyCar race in DC is impacting the East Coast flow today, moreso if you're on an AAirline that operates through DCA.
CoffeeIcePapers
Well-Hung Member
They closed a major runway at DFW. Its causing some 2+ hour taxis, which caused crew timeouts and mx issues.
Beaker
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I recently waited 2+ hours in a line at Schlitterbahn. I have the experience. I'm ready for this career!
Continuing with my Texas aside...when did Schlitterbahn decide to suck? So much for sharing the joyful places of my youth with my kids.
Roger Roger
I am le tired
Enschlittification?
Fixtur
Dunning-Kruger Expert
Now there's a name i haven't heard in many years...
Many summers spent in the late 80's / early 90's floating down that lazy river.
///AMG
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I feel like my longer military leaves always seem to coincide with system meltdowns. Regardless of season, but normally this, or snow/ice-mageddons. One day my luck, or maybe it is lack of luck ($$$/section 25), will run out. I like to think of it like the operation only runs smoothly when I'm around though lol
Two hour delay is barely noteworthy with as en•tified as the air travel experience has become. We had 1.7 hours on our last family vacation and because we arrived on the same day as planned, in the same class of travel as planned, and in the seats we’d selected…that was a “win.” These are the consumer protections we voted for.
///AMG
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2+ hour taxi?
CASH CAB!
Fake taxi?
Boom ba pa boom, booooooom….
Beaker
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Most summers my DFW-based family plays the game "Let's Go To Newark." It's a branching storyline survival game and no playthrough is the same. I'm not sure how it got its name; often you don't actually go to Newark.
In one version, you arrive at the airport in the early morning, then after boarding the aircraft for the second time, have the APU fail with the main engines shutdown on the holding pad. As the cabin bakes in the Texas heat with no air conditioning, you watch your children flush red but stay calm; the grown ups around you gradually lose their sanity. After an hour, the aircraft makes it back to a gate in Terminal C. You limp off the sauna, and the passengers there ask where you came in from. You reply Terminal A. As you wait until the evening, the airline eventually informs you that there are no seats available on the remaining flights. You will not be going to Newark. You ask to reclaim your bags. Sorry sir, but that is not possible. Your bags are in Newark.
In one version, you arrive at the airport in the early morning, then after boarding the aircraft for the second time, have the APU fail with the main engines shutdown on the holding pad. As the cabin bakes in the Texas heat with no air conditioning, you watch your children flush red but stay calm; the grown ups around you gradually lose their sanity. After an hour, the aircraft makes it back to a gate in Terminal C. You limp off the sauna, and the passengers there ask where you came in from. You reply Terminal A. As you wait until the evening, the airline eventually informs you that there are no seats available on the remaining flights. You will not be going to Newark. You ask to reclaim your bags. Sorry sir, but that is not possible. Your bags are in Newark.
DropTank
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Like the Bus that Bangs a lot?
I never had a step mother. Is that a thing too? Ha!
Kingairer
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I always cringe when people ask to “shut them both down”, don’t do it! If you ever have that happen to you once, it changes you, never again!
DropTank
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Sculprit
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Step sister does the same!