Comments | hellpossum: Airport fun

hellpossum

Airport fun

Nov 27, 2006 00:32

This weekend is the busiest of the year for airports. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is the busiest airport in the country, in terms of both number of flights and number of passengers that go through each year.

This morning, it took me 55 minutes to get from my house clear across town to my gate. That's 30 minutes going from ( Read more... )

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orewashinanai November 27 2006, 05:37:58 UTC

I dunno about Atlanta, but why do you prefer LaGuardia to JFK? I'm extremely biased cuz I live 10 minutes from JFK but I don't think I've ever met anyone who defends LaGuardia...

hellpossum December 7 2006, 22:09:06 UTC

I prefer LaGuardia for two reasons:

1. It's easier to get to. For a New York airport, I realize that this isn't saying much, but I've had major issues trying to get to JFK through traffic. (You'd think three hours to get from the train station to the airport would be enough, but no...).

2. LaGuardia hasn't totally screwed me yet.

Granted, LGA isn't all peaches and cream (see above post). It works creakily and disjointedly. Still, it works. JFK just makes me not able to leave New York.

rthecuban November 27 2006, 05:52:46 UTC

'cuz Georgia's dirty!

holmes_iv November 27 2006, 07:05:57 UTC

Well, I would posit one personal opinion and one speculation. Personally, I loathe LaGuardia with a burning passion, and try to make all my flights through an airport that has Amtrak service, by which I mean Newark. Still not the speediest place in the world to get out of, though. Generally, I would speculate that the people who have horrible feelings about Hartsfield-Jackson are the people who were on connections that they missed because of thunderstorms (or because of obnoxious behavior from Delta), or that they barely made after a long run through the terminal. Thus, they aren't comparing it to the airports that they came from or are going to (which presumably have the merits of proximity to some place or person they want to visit, or at least the virtue of giving them access to such a person or place), but rather to the general condition of not having to make a $#@ connection, in comparison to which it suffers greatly.

Of course, I also don't have particularly negative feelings toward any of the airports I have regularly ( ... )

banana_pants November 27 2006, 14:06:04 UTC

I think people might hate the Atlanta airport for the same reason that they think New York is dangerous: volume, not probability.

I always fly into and out of Newark because it's so much faster to get to and from, and it is much closer to my parents' place.

hellpossum December 7 2006, 22:05:41 UTC

I've flown out of Newark once (when I was going from New Jersey), and it was nice. Would you say it's closer to Grand Central than LaGuardia is (by shuttle), though? The hassle of going through Penn Station has put me off going there from New Haven.

banana_pants December 7 2006, 22:12:27 UTC

Newark is nice and close, and easy to use. I prefer it to either JFK or LaGuardia, especially cause it's easy to get to from my parents' place.

Penn Station (on the way to Newark) is pretty easy once you know where you are going.