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Why Your Tiny Airport is Dreadful
This category of blog post usually features such large scale airports such as Heathrow, Lisbon, Newark, Miami etc. These airports are universally known and loathed in equal amounts. With big airports, come big problems, but as we recently learned, small airports can manage to create problems of their own. Historically, a small airport can be…
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March in Tucson . . .with Nicole!
Despite having built up almost ten years of seniority at the airline, my schedule seems to be getting worse. What a fine thank you for my service. With that being said, I was given a 3-day trip with two Tucson overnights back to back. I thusly tried to entice Nicole to join me on this…
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Oklahoma City’s Legacy
It appears that I am averaging one post every nine months. They keep scheduling me on these silly overnights for the past few months and I really don’t care for them. More often than not, I tend to get sick about two days after staying in these hotels, and then I become rather cross and…
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Biggest Little City
My report time this morning was 5:15am. Even living close to the airport, this required a 4:07am alarm. So when a jumpseater for United came up to the flight deck to ask permission to board, I was a bit surprised when he found my particular two day trip overnighting in Reno to be very appealing.…
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Why Your Airport Sucks: Miami Edition
Miami International is a major regional hub for flights going and coming from Central and South America and the Caribbean. As such, you would expect it to be properly equipped to handle a large volume of passengers in a relatively efficient manner. As you will see, however, expectations are best kept low. It is logical…
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Where to Eat Near the Denver Airport
Do you find yourself overnight in Denver near the airport? Did you miss your flight? Was it canceled entirely? Why did you book your tickets on Spirit? Are you now hungry? Well, do not fret! Flyin’ Brian has eaten at every establishment in the Tower Road vicinity so you needn’t roll the dice on digestion.…
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Meet Me in St Louis . . .and Stay Awhile
After concluding a successful week and a half in Denver for systems and procedures validations, my captain upgrade class was all sent to St. Louis for simulator training. I had a couple days off in Denver before flying to St. Louis, where I would have one last free day before I was expected to start…
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Why Your Airport Isn’t What it Used to Be: Denver Edition
The Denver International Airport as we know it today opened up back in 1995. It was located in the middle of Colorado farmland, very far from downtown Denver, or anything of interest for that matter. Like many airports that start from scratch, they sought to become a prototype for the “airport of the future.” For…
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Why Your Airport is Statistically the Worst . . . In the World
It is perhaps human nature to remember a bad experience much more clearly than a good one. When it comes to airports, it is difficult to stand out positively especially when a large number of people in those airports are miserable. Airports are crowded, noisy, anxiety-inducing places where by nature one must wait in multiple…
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Palm Springs Again
For whatever reason, I always seem to end up in Palm Springs this time of year on an overnight. For this year, it was the result of all my bid parameters being completely tossed out by the scheduling software, resulting in several multi day trips. I wasn’t terribly pleased about all this, but there are…
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