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I Hate Flying

dsnort

dsnort

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[Rant]

And no, it's not a phobia thing.

I'm sitting here at an airport at 4:30 AM local time, looking at a display saying my flight has been delayed an hour! Which will of course make me miss my connection!

And using MapQuest I just figured out that I could have gotten 2 more hours of sleep, drove to my destination, and arrived at approximately the same time I'm going to make it there now.

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dsnort said:
And using MapQuest I just figured out that I could have gotten 2 more hours of sleep, drove to my destination, and arrived at approximately the same time I'm going to make it there now.
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If it's so close... why are you flying? :confused:
 
iGav said:
If it's so close... why are you flying? :confused:
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It's a 5 hour drive from where I am to where I need to go. By flying I should have been there around 2:30, now it's going to more like 2:00.

Plus where I am going is not a final destination, but a waypoint.
 
The best part is how they always go "Thank you for flying with us and sorry for the inconvenience." You get delayed for like 2 days and everything gets ****ed up and they don't even compensate you for it.

On the way back from Florida last year, we were in the Orlando airport waiting for our flight and they delayed it a half hour just because the plane wasn't full, even though there was a storm coming. By the time we got on the plane, the storm was there and we had to sit on the plane for over an hour for the storm to pass. This, of course, made us miss our connection out of Charlotte, so we were then stuck in Charlotte for like 6 more hours, plus we got the absolute ********* seats ever on the flight out of Charlotte.
 
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How is the seats you had of out Charlotte the fault of the airline? Delays can (and will happen), if the plane wasn't full I'm assuming you're talking about luggage, which would be handled by airport personal not your airline. If an airline compensated someone for every delay they'd comp themselves out of business. It's just the nature of flying, you gotta go with it.
 
I love to fly so much that I have a job teaching others how to do it!

I did an internship with American last summer and the shear amount of stuff that goes on in the background makes me surprised they can get flights off the ground at all. Flying is so cheap these days you can't complain about anything except the service really. But then you are not paying any premium for good service. You want it? pay for it!
 
I enjoy flying, its fast transportation and you get to look at the top side of the clouds. But you know, I'm asian and I'm always stopped at the metal detector gate area. I swear I must have bad luck or something.
 
I love flying. I don't really know why though, but it's cool. I'm just hoping I get to sit next to a fine girl next month when I fly home from college :D
 
I like flying well enough. It's the airports that drive me crazy these days.

Last November when I flew home (to Canada) from a conference in Phoenix, the immigration folks sent me to the back room for a secondary inspection. The person there found my Powerbook, asked me to power it on, and started scouring my hard drive looking at my photos. I was quite unhappy, but of course you have to grin and bear it for fear they think you're trying to hide something.

I would say I have no idea what they're hoping to find, but that's not true. Every other day, it seems, I hear on the news that another guy was busted for possession of kiddie porn after border officials found some on their laptop.

I'm not sure how I feel about that. I'm glad they're capturing those guys, but I'm not so glad about the inconvenience it puts me through, nor do I want to think about what it was about my profile that made them think I might be in the same category and thus warranted an extra search.

And don't even get me started about airport delays and my nightmare with United Airways a few years back.

Anyway, about flying -- I don't do so well with smaller planes or helicopters. My friend took me up in a Cessna, which was really cool, but I felt very sick after about 30 minutes. Same when I went on a helicopter tour over the Grand Canyon a number of years ago. If it weren't for that, I would seriously consider taking some flying lessons.
 
i have never flown.....but i'm sure i will one day. but if i had the choice, i'd choose not to.

and i have drove to Canada and back before....that was fun
 
notjustjay said:
I like flying well enough. It's the airports that drive me crazy these days.

Last November when I flew home (to Canada) from a conference in Phoenix, the immigration folks sent me to the back room for a secondary inspection. The person there found my Powerbook, asked me to power it on, and started scouring my hard drive looking at my photos. I was quite unhappy, but of course you have to grin and bear it for fear they think you're trying to hide something.
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haha, you think that's bad man? everytime i come back from trips to my home country, Colombia, i get searched and re-searche dand searched again and again and again... of ocurse i understand why they are doing it, but beleive me it doe snot matter how many times you fly and how patient you are the rudeness of the border ass***** gets to you. last time iI had ot take make sooooo many ocnections, went from toronto-new york-miami-colombia and in everysingle american airport i was searched and questioned. 3 times in toronto by three different ass***** then twice in new york, you would think they wouldn t becaus eit is just a connection domestic flight right? nopes got searche dthere aagain and then researched and searche dnd questioned again in miami. I don tget upset the first 6 times but after that i get so frustrated and pissed off..
 
flying is the worst...

i absolutely hate to fly. it's not being on the plane, or the turbulence, or anything like that...i just can't stand driving to the airport, going through security, waiting for the flight, and all that. i travel a good bit for work, and i regularly drive from western maryland to places like ohio and connecticut. i don't drive more than 8 hours, so it's not bad at all. i get paid almost $.50/mile to drive my own car, so it works out well for me. :) sometimes it's cheaper for the company to pay for me to drive than it is for them to pay me mileage to drive to and from the airport and the actual price of the flights. i just leave in the afternoon and drive until i'm where i need to be. ;)
 
ezzie1029 said:
i absolutely hate to fly. it's not being on the plane, or the turbulence, or anything like that...i just can't stand driving to the airport, going through security, waiting for the flight, and all that. i travel a good bit for work, and i regularly drive from western maryland to places like ohio and connecticut. i don't drive more than 8 hours, so it's not bad at all. i get paid almost $.50/mile to drive my own car, so it works out well for me. :) sometimes it's cheaper for the company to pay for me to drive than it is for them to pay me mileage to drive to and from the airport and the actual price of the flights. i just leave in the afternoon and drive until i'm where i need to be. ;)
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You only hate the airports because Dulles (the cheapest) sucks. It is way to crowded and they always take forever getting your luggage on your flight back.

I love flying but I will pay for the seats with extra leg room if I can (United).
 
mattscott306 said:
How is the seats you had of out Charlotte the fault of the airline? Delays can (and will happen), if the plane wasn't full I'm assuming you're talking about luggage, which would be handled by airport personal not your airline. If an airline compensated someone for every delay they'd comp themselves out of business. It's just the nature of flying, you gotta go with it.
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We had great seats scheduled on our original tickets, with the delay in Orlando, we missed the connection in Charlotte. They stuck us in a bunch of middle seats in different rows in the back of the plane, where on the original flight we had a single row for all of us.

The plane out of Orlando wasn't full because they had empty seats. They combined the flight with another small fight from another airline.
 
dsnort said:
[Rant]

And no, it's not a phobia thing.

I'm sitting here at an airport at 4:30 AM local time, looking at a display saying my flight has been delayed an hour! Which will of course make me miss my connection!

And using MapQuest I just figured out that I could have gotten 2 more hours of sleep, drove to my destination, and arrived at approximately the same time I'm going to make it there now.

[END RANT]
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If your flight is delayed an hour and driving would have gotten you there two hours sooner, doesn't that imply that driving is always 1 hour faster? Do you really hate flying, then, or are you mad at yourself for poor planning?
 
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