Comments on: Pretending You Are Luggage

By: 13 Ways To Fix Flying | Social Butterfly Guy

13 Ways To Fix Flying | Social Butterfly Guy — Tue, 10 May 2011 19:22:08 +0000

[...] Westnedge pointed me to this post, Pretending You Are Luggage, by Brad [...]

By: Matt_Cullen

Matt_Cullen — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:12:24 +0000

Despite all the complaints I used to hear about DIA, it really is a great airport. A few of the things that I think contribute (and places that are absolutely awful at these same things):

- It's really easy to get around. (Houston)
- The trains are fast and run frequently. (Houston)
- Security is divided into families/inexperienced, experienced, expert, and 1st class lines. Doesn't seem like a big deal until you start going through airports where everyone is thrown in together. (Albuquerque)
- Free wireless. (San Francisco)
- Electric plugs are available. (Albuquerque)
- The airport has a cohesive design, not like a lot of the ones with random additions. (Houston)
- You can travel between concourses without going through security. (I'm talking to you, Miami International)
- Lots of moving sidewalks.
- You don't have to walk from one end of the airport to the other. (Miami, again)

One thing I haven't found yet at DIA is a reasonably priced, good tasting restaurant. If anyone has suggestions here, let me know.

By: heykeenan

heykeenan — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:34:46 +0000

It's a good life lesson. Keep expectations low. Let everyone surprise you. Half of life's disappointments comes from our own, unrealistic expectations of others. (expectation of ourselves should always be high, we control them) but for those outside of our control, keep em low.

By: Brad Feld

Brad Feld — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:28:03 +0000

Yeah but flying is no worse than it was in 2000!

By: airline-guy

airline-guy — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:25:32 +0000

There does have to be some expectation setting.

Money coming into an airline:
Average domestic airfare, now: Around $300
Average domestic airfare 4Q 2000: $407

Biggest cost for an airline…fuel:
Crude Oil Per Barrel, now: $80
Crude Oil Per Barrel, 4Q 2000: $29

That has to net out somewhere. Airline's costs are up, yours are down. No free lunch, sorry.

By: Buzz Bruggeman

Buzz Bruggeman — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:59:58 +0000

I was on a UAL the other day that was brutal….Finally got up, walked to the back of the plane, and made a comment to the aging flight attendant that the flight was brutal. She looked at me and said, "Haven't you heard we have a new class of service?"

I bit and said I hadn't heard that…

And she replied, "Yes, economy minus…"…

There you have it as they say…

By: Owen Johnson

Owen Johnson — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:22:14 +0000

Do I smell a concept for a new product or a Saturday Night Live skit? Hard to know.

By: Brad Feld

Brad Feld — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:15:05 +0000

I was definitely a sleeping flying cow today. Hopefully the methane production wasn't too much for my seatmate.

By: Owen Johnson

Owen Johnson — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:05:59 +0000

It seems to me that the threat level hasn't been lower than Orange since the level was invented!

I've used the cow metaphor for years to fly happily. Being a flying cow is the only way to fly.

If I could develop your superpower, I could be a sleeping flying cow and that would be even more enjoyable.

By: JChauncey

JChauncey — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:28:59 +0000

My wife and I are flying to Montana this December for a wedding (leave early friday morning and arrive home late sunday night) so I hope to God everything goes alright – that next week is finals week for my wife…