JaceTheAce
Well-Known Member
I know I'm preaching to the choir when I say this, but when I was jumpseating to get to work, a passenger made a very funny statement when I was waiting at the gate to board an Air Wisconsin flight from PHL to LGA. Beer-Belly Joe Sixpack paced back and forth anxious to find out which kind of airplane he'd be flying on the short 20 minute flight from Philly to LaGuardia. When the CRJ-200 arrived, he was thrilled to see that he wasn't "flying on one of dem old turboprops."
Since the Air Whiskey CRJ-200 couldn't accept the short RWY 35 at Kilo runway like the Dash 8 did going from PHL to LGA, we had to sit and wait in a huge hour-long line at 9pm for the longer RWY 27L. Had that passenger been on the Dash 8 flight from PHL to LGA that left only a few minutes earlier, he would've had a short 5 minute taxi time and would've avoided sitting on the ground in a cramped and packed CRJ for more than an hour.
He had no clue that the "slow and old-fashioned" Dash 8 would've cut his total time sitting on an airplane down to about 45 minutes.
*evil laugh*
Since the Air Whiskey CRJ-200 couldn't accept the short RWY 35 at Kilo runway like the Dash 8 did going from PHL to LGA, we had to sit and wait in a huge hour-long line at 9pm for the longer RWY 27L. Had that passenger been on the Dash 8 flight from PHL to LGA that left only a few minutes earlier, he would've had a short 5 minute taxi time and would've avoided sitting on the ground in a cramped and packed CRJ for more than an hour.
He had no clue that the "slow and old-fashioned" Dash 8 would've cut his total time sitting on an airplane down to about 45 minutes.
*evil laugh*