my frights this weekend were all on united, and they really had me wondering if they were about to go belly up or something... actually this is just a general rant about flying in general...



1. the line to check in at SFO was an hour and a half long, i was close to missing my flight, several people did. it was the longest line i can remember being. the dumb part is they know how many flights are leaving, and how many people are on the plane, they know about how long the line should be, right?



2. they let me carry my guitar on the plane (with my normal bag) on the way there, on the way back, carrying on the guitar was not allowed....



3. the vancouver airport kicks ass, its really really nice (it looks like a nice shopping mall, wifi, open atriums etc) until you get to the US side, they it sucks. the security is actually closer to keeping people IN the US side than keeping foreigners out.



4. my layover in vancouver was longer than the entire flight time of the whole trip.



5. the SFO airport sucks, its dark, and dirty. the baggage claim is just a pile of bags in the corner. they have the carousels but seem to have forgotten how to use them.



6. the flight out of vancouver was delayed an hour because they didnt get clearance to take off. WTF? again, they scheduled he flight, sold the tickets, but forgot the flight plan?





so just to sum up, i was struck by how poor the whole airline service works. it seriously had me wondering if they had ever tried to do this before.

i really dont like flying





and its not about the actual 30,000 ft high 500 km per hour thing, its really the logistics of getting out of your vehicle and sitting your ass down on the plane

I haven't flown since 9/11, so I don't know. Not because I'm afraid to... but it's just cheaper to drive, and I don't mind driving. Plus, I haven't really gone anywhere far enough to warrant flying.

try driving to hawaii

some cubans drove to fl in a truck a while back, so id guess he could figure it out..

Every time I'm in a damn plane, and it's rattling down the runway on takeoff I can't help but think how much it reminds me of a beat-to-**** city bus with a couple million damn miles on it. ****'s probably dropping nuts and bolts while it's accelerating down the runway. Most of the domestic airline fleet is what--25 years old? And I think they service the planes at Jiffy-Lube.

i hate flying, there's no place I can't drive or sail https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...#>/biggrin.gif

the part where the plane was in the air went ok, but everything else was a retarded clusterf$&k



with all the lines and delays and plane changes, its actually a toss up weather its faster to drive or fly.

Yeah, I've only flown a few times since 9/11. The lines are brutal. They treat you like livestock. And those cattle prods aren't any fun, either!

After a certain amount of flight hours each plane is taken out of service and the entire body and structure is analyzed to see if or where the stress concentrated cracks have formed. Any section that has these cracks are then replaced.



- Hand