Worst & Best Airports

[BmillsSkier]

Fred's got some special gummy bears for the kiddos.

They’ll be just fine I’m sure.

[fastfred]

Clicked on the thread by accident bmills can never hang out cause he's got a boat load of kids w him someday he will dirt bag it and sleep on my floor sans all the adult responsibilities

Did you say your sister is single?

[Meadow Skipper]

Clicked on the thread by accident bmills can never hang out cause he's got a boat load of kids w him someday he will dirt bag it and sleep on my floor sans all the adult responsibilities

Did you say your sister is single?

“by accident”?

[BmillsSkier]

Clicked on the thread by accident bmills can never hang out cause he's got a boat load of kids w him someday he will dirt bag it and sleep on my floor sans all the adult responsibilities

Did you say your sister is single?

One trip sans kiddos I’ll be more than happy to take you up on that offer Fred.

Much like you, your home mountain was very accommodating with the pow this week. Caught 6 chair when it opened on Thursday for several first-tracks runs, then enjoyed boot to knee deep trees below the T bar as the tracks just kept getting filled in.

Caught the back side of 10 as it opened after both storms Sunday for just some silly-deep snow. Shocked to hear of the fatal slide just the other side of the rope there that evening. Heavy dump on top of light blower had to make some very unstable snowpack.

And no, sorry, no single sisters.

[EWG]

I can’t believe you jinxed DIA by giving it props. I’d say see ya in Feb but you will obviously be rerouted to Des Moines.

[BmillsSkier]

I can’t believe you jinxed DIA by giving it props. I’d say see ya in Feb but you will obviously be rerouted to Des Moines.

I hear the corn is lovely that time of year at least.

We can talk about a 3 year plan for 2nd round draft strategies while I await the reroute to DEN/EGE.

[Name Redacted]

Props DEN, you’ve significantly upped your game (at least in my personal experience just coming off a 10 day trip around Summit and Eagle Counties).

I’m sure flying Delta helped looking at all those poor SWA-stranded people and luggage on both ends of the ATL-DEN leg, but I’ve never in my life landed and come to baggage claim to have my luggage waiting for me there - ski bag and all. It’s always been at least a 35-45 minute wait.

Then this morning ahead of the storm they got us up and out and in the de-icing pad ahead of schedule while the delays kept piling up elsewhere.

Oh, and while completely unrelated, I was able to locate a premium SUV as my rental a week before Christmas when our ride bailed and everything was sold out (an Audi Q5 or equivalent) for way too much money through Enterprise, and when we arrived we were informed that none would be actually available for several hours but if we were willing to accept this new Toyota Highlander they’d be willing to knock the entire rental down to $275 for our troubles - I couldn’t grab the keys quick enough.

Kudos, DEN,

I flew Delta DEN><ATL for Thanksgiving. It was seriously the best flight/travel experience I've had in years, both ways.

Let's have a meetup next time you are out.

Oh yeah, you can sometimes get pretty reasonable flights direct to EGE from ATL. Done it a few times.

[zion zig zag]

I’m sure flying Delta helped looking at all those poor SWA-stranded people and luggage on both ends of the ATL-DEN leg, but I’ve never in my life landed and come to baggage claim to have my luggage waiting for me there - ski bag and all. It’s always been at least a 35-45 minute wait.

FYI, 2500 skymiles if your bags take longer than 20 minutes: https://www.delta.com/bags/bagsClaimAutomation.action

[Duffman]

JAC is now a shitshow with baggage, at least on the United side. Had tile trackers in my ski bags, got our regular bag, but us and 8 other groups never had our ski bags unloaded from the plane. Even as I was showing the baggage staff that the bags were still in the same location on the plane, they insisted that was impossible as I watched them take off and land back in Denver 90 minutes later. They were flown back later that night.

On our outbound leg to EWR, despite checking in 2 hours early, they simply forgot to load one of the ski bags. It sat in the same spot in the terminal for hours while the other bag got on fine.

Don't get me started on the 2 people working at half speed at EWR to bring ski bags and large items out. An hour of my life I'll never get back

[BmillsSkier]

I flew Delta DEN><ATL for Thanksgiving. It was seriously the best flight/travel experience I've had in years, both ways.

Let's have a meetup next time you are out.

Oh yeah, you can sometimes get pretty reasonable flights direct to EGE from ATL. Done it a few times.

Absolutely.

And definitely always check EGE first. Back in the day when Delta had Comair I’d buy their weekend traveler packets of 4 1-way tickets for $300. Best deal in ski travel ever. Pre-pandy there was up to 4 flights a day direct from ATL-EGE, think it’s down to 1 or 2 now which sucks.

FYI, 2500 skymiles if your bags take longer than 20 minutes: https://www.delta.com/bags/bagsClaimAutomation.action

Now this is news you can use. Thanks!

[BC.]

Don't get me started on the 2 people working at half speed at EWR to bring ski bags and large items out. An hour of my life I'll never get back

I’ve been in and out of EWR for many years with ski bags and those guys never change…They must have it written in their contracts to go as slow as humanly possible…lol. They totally do it on purpose.

I‘ll be out at Breck at Easter….EWR-DEN

[riser4]

Worst airport right now is the one in Alabama where a worker got killed after they were '"ingested" by a jet engine. Fuck.

[BmillsSkier]

While Delta tries to calm down the lounge access, they will at least be offering free Wi-Fi on all domestic flights beginning in February, which is nice.

A lot more blue screen surfing from 30,000ft.

https://news.delta.com/ces2023/delta...-onboard-wi-fi

[Name Redacted]

Delta is the best, at least lately. I watched Death Proof and Godfather 2 to/from ATL on Delta flights. Hundreds of movies to choose from to watch on the seat back screens.

[seano732]

Headed to DFW>STL as we speak…..Will update on shittiness or lack thereof accordingly…..

[rod9301]

Istanbul, great airport. Thru customs and passport control in minutes, vs 1h in Feb Francisco.

Helps that it's a new airport, built on a lot of empty land.

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[seano732]

Annnnnnd DFW is a shithole…..

[hawkgt]

Annnnnnd DFW is a shithole…..

i have yet to find one person who likes DFW

[SkiCougar]

been in denver, oklahoma city, omaha, memphis and san diego past 6 months. omaha was good although tiny. denvers southwest terminal is a freaking monster now, over 100 gates and san diego's baggage looks to be a close second to houston hobby for worst baggage handling. 3 freaking flights to unload, took them an hour.

[Woodsy]

Schipol/Amsterdam cranks.
Efficient, well serviced f&b wise..

[Buster Highmen]

Schipol/Amsterdam cranks.
Efficient, well serviced f&b wise..

that's funny to me.
I've had 3x bad experiences through Schipol, almost missing flights due to understaffed customs.
aand unless they've added a bunch, the connecting flights display boards are few.

[The AD]

that's funny to me.
I've had 3x bad experiences through Schipol, almost missing flights due to understaffed customs.

Remember the posts here last summer where the check-in line was over a mile long? So, yeah, not so much I'd say.

[Name Redacted]

i have yet to find one person who likes DFW

We had a layover there and went into this wine bar next to a Subway. It was crazy expensive for some reason. I mean, more expensive than a normal airport bar. Cheapest glass of wine was like $30 and the pizza was $25 for a personal cracker thin crust. I wonder if that place is still around.

[Danno]

LaGuardia, now a prettier shithole!

[BmillsSkier]

Forgot to mention that the views from SLC's terminal are impossible to beat. Luckily my flights were all right next to the big glass lounge.

Check in at Delta and the rental counter were stupid easy.