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Thoguh posted:There's stairs to, you don't have to take the elevator. You can also access it from the stairs across from French Meadow on the other side of the mall. Though if you come from that side you feel kind of weird walking by a bunch of TSA offices. Back a few years when I frequented it, I always had a roller bag so I took the elevator rather than lug it up the stairs. I'm not saying the area is swanky, the furniture was rather torn up back then and I suspect it hasn't changed, but the average person doesn't know its up there. Nice place to kill an hour if you can't get into a lounge.
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FunOne posted:Back a few years when I frequented it, I always had a roller bag so I took the elevator rather than lug it up the stairs. I'm not saying the area is swanky, the furniture was rather torn up back then and I suspect it hasn't changed, but the average person doesn't know its up there. Nice place to kill an hour if you can't get into a lounge. I actually slept up there one time when I got snowed into the airport, felt like a loving God.
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The bonus on the SPG AmEx just went up to 35k. Best every day spending card imo, since Starpoints are transferable to every airline and you even get a 25% bonus when doing it in 20k blocks. The underlying hotel program is pretty good too, hope Marriott doesn't gently caress it up.psydude posted:Does American allow you to credit tickets purchased for family members on the same flight to your AAdvantage account? No airline on earth does this
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Pryor on Fire posted:LaGuardia is like a third world country, I love the dozens of buckets out to catch water every time it rains. Just like China. China's airports are actually all new, they demolished everything old and went on an infrastructure spending spree. LGA is pretty bad, yeah, but it's very close to Manhattan and even has a Centurion Lounge! Mandalay posted:No airline on earth does this Some airlines allow you to pool between family accounts, but every flyer needs their own account.
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Yeah my asian travel knowledge is about 10-20 years out of date, I hear it's much nicer now. Which is to say much nicer than the airport servicing the wealthiest city on earth.
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Mandalay posted:The underlying hotel program is pretty good too, hope Marriott doesn't gently caress it up. Nothing ever improves for the customer.
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Condolences to whichever one of you got caught https://twitter.com/DCist/status/832316322910498817
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It's not 50 short tons of instant noodles so all good in the hood.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:LGA is the worst Delta hub BY FAR. See, I exclude NYC airports from the competition for worst because they have an excuse. Minneapolis has no excuse for its layout.
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Uncle Jam posted:It's not 50 short tons of instant noodles so all good in the hood. Which are OK if as long as the soup packets do not contain meat products.**
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Midjack posted:Nothing ever improves for the customer. Ever. People hoping for the best out of Marriott are going to be very disappointed. No merger is ever good for the customer.
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HEY Delta brought back coach meals on select transcontinental flights so things are looking up! 
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The only thing that would actually make flying better is seats that fit more than the tiniest 10% of adults.
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Residency Evil posted:Minneapolis has no excuse for its layout. Yeah this. Totally flat. All the space in the world. And they make that??
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i fly airplanes posted:China's airports are actually all new, they demolished everything old and went on an infrastructure spending spree. LGA is pretty bad, yeah, but it's very close to Manhattan and even has a Centurion Lounge! I landed in Shanghai on a flight from the US and we had to roll up stairs to the jet and take a shuttle into the airport because there weren't enough gates. 
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monster on a stick posted:I landed in Shanghai on a flight from the US and we had to roll up stairs to the jet and take a shuttle into the airport because there weren't enough gates. Now try doing that with bus shuttles at Dubai International for a fully-loaded Emirates A380 in scorching Middle Eastern heat and sandy wind. At least the logistics were impressive, I guess..
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i fly airplanes posted:Now try doing that with bus shuttles at Dubai International for a fully-loaded Emirates A380 in scorching Middle Eastern heat and sandy wind. I swear I've been driven in one of those buses around Dubai airport back to the terminal for longer than the flight took.
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monster on a stick posted:I landed in Shanghai on a flight from the US and we had to roll up stairs to the jet and take a shuttle into the airport because there weren't enough gates. This happens at Dulles and Frankfurt all the time, often on airplanes traveling between the two airports.
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i fly airplanes posted:Some airlines allow you to pool between family accounts, but every flyer needs their own account.
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i fly airplanes posted:Now try doing that with bus shuttles at Dubai International for a fully-loaded Emirates A380 in scorching Middle Eastern heat and sandy wind. They do this for the A350 flights in Qatar as well. You disembark/board way way deep in the cargo section of the airport. It's really great when the only reason you have to be there is to change between two different A350s.
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taco show posted:Airlines Phasing Out Screens Because You Are All on Your Devices: Good, get those stupid electronics control boxes out from under the seats so I can fit my carry on. I bring my own ipad. Kindle fires are less than $100. Everyone has a cell phone. Plenty of entertainment already.
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Cacafuego posted:Good, get those stupid electronics control boxes out from under the seats so I can fit my carry on. I bring my own ipad. Kindle fires are less than $100. Everyone has a cell phone. Plenty of entertainment already. For an hour or two, sure. I dont want to hold my tablet up in front of my face for 2+ hours. Plus, IFE usually has pretty new movies on it.
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DJCobol posted:For an hour or two, sure. I dont want to hold my tablet up in front of my face for 2+ hours. Plus, IFE usually has pretty new movies on it. .....which you can watch on your tablet over wifi. And buy a $10 case that works as a stand to put your tablet on the tray table.
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DJCobol posted:For an hour or two, sure. I dont want to hold my tablet up in front of my face for 2+ hours. Plus, IFE usually has pretty new movies on it. Motronic posted:.....which you can watch on your tablet over wifi. As referenced in that article though, take out the IFE, but ensure every seat has a (working) power outlet.
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Cacafuego posted:As referenced in that article though, take out the IFE, but ensure every seat has a (working) power outlet. I just assume my seat won't, and really have no problems....although I would certainly prefer an outlet. Modern (even cheap Fire) tablets are good for like 7 hours of watching video, and a $20 12000mAh usb battery pack will recharge it from dead more than twice. I get everyone travels differently, but I'm not doing anything too far out of the ordinary, haven't sunk a lot of cash into "gear" (other than the requisite Bose QCs) and don't feel like I'm being weighed down by these couple items. Procedurally I just make sure I charge things at each destination, put it back in my travel bag and I'm good to go for next time.
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taco show posted:Airlines Phasing Out Screens Because You Are All on Your Devices: ugh, I don't like this because my preference is to put some TV/Movie on the IFE and then use my own device to play a game, read, do work, or whatever. Plus the IFE is actually placed at a decent viewing angle. This is just a cost cutting measure they're spinning as something consumers want.
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Thoguh posted:ugh, I don't like this because my preference is to put some TV/Movie on the IFE and then use my own device to play a game, read, do work, or whatever. Plus the IFE is actually placed at a decent viewing angle. This is just a cost cutting measure they're spinning as something consumers want. It apparently is something consumers want though and I am in that category. A huge percentage of the people do bring their own entertainment (at least on domestic flights) and never use the IFE. I don't doubt the airlines see it as a way to cut costs, especially if it's not making them $ because people aren't paying for it, and they have to maintain the systems and pay for content.
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Cacafuego posted:It apparently is something consumers want though and I am in that category. A huge percentage of the people do bring their own entertainment (at least on domestic flights) and never use the IFE. I don't doubt the airlines see it as a way to cut costs, especially if it's not making them $ because people aren't paying for it, and they have to maintain the systems and pay for content. Yeah, put me in the camp of take the out-of-date, slow, buggy IFE out of the seat, give me more cushion, take out the absurdly large equipment box and just give me a working outlet. Run the movies over WiFi if you really-got-to-have them. Use the weight savings to stock more booze. That actually helps me get to my destination quicker.
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I guess I just don't see them as conflicting. If people want to be able to access IFE via wi-fi that's fine. But doing that and getting rid of in seat IFE aren't the same thing. They aren't responding to costumers who want IFE on their own devices by getting rid of seatback IFE. They're responding to customers who want IFE on their own devices and getting rid of seatback IFE. The two things aren't directly related.
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Small White Dragon posted:You can actually do this with British Airways, and credit AA flights to them. I'm not sure this works with the discount fares I buy on AA. FunOne posted:Yeah, put me in the camp of take the out-of-date, slow, buggy IFE out of the seat, give me more cushion, take out the absurdly large equipment box and just give me a working outlet. Run the movies over WiFi if you really-got-to-have them. Yep, definitely. My only exception to this is live sports on Jetblue TV.
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I was flying domestic Qantas 737s earlier this year, and every seat had a little strap from which you could hang a tablet. I noticed 2 minor procedural differences in Australia: you cannot have headphone cords blocking the row (i.e. going from hanging tablet on the seat back to your ears) during takeoff/landing, and exit rows cannot have any luggage in them (even under the seat in front) during takeoff/landing.
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I'm flying into Charlotte multiple times over the next month for connections with approximately a one-hour layover It's All American. Does anybody anticipate that being a problem
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They should figure out a way to let me put my tablet where the IFE was.
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Waroduce posted:I'm flying into Charlotte multiple times over the next month for connections with approximately a one-hour layover It's All American. Does anybody anticipate that being a problem Going from E to A or B can be kind of a hike. But generally it's not bad. The big headache you'll have is with American's boarding procedure, you get a lot of people blocking the main hallways of the terminals. Which always seems a bit worse in Charlotte.
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Hashtag Banterzone posted:They should figure out a way to let me put my tablet where the IFE was. CX's new A350 has a short drop down tray where you can put a tablet in front of the IFE.  I'd much rather have IFE stream to my device, the IFE screen on almost every carrier is slow, terrible UI, unresponsive, has a terrible viewing angle if the person in front of you reclines, and will look old and low resolution in a few years compared to new phones and laptops. Save space and weight for something that almost everyone is bringing on the plane with them anyways.
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Anyone have experience with ALOFT? a king bed is in a 300sqft room....but I want the spg points...it's the only spg thing around my client and it's next to a gym... I could do mariott I guess
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Waroduce posted:I'm flying into Charlotte multiple times over the next month for connections with approximately a one-hour layover It's All American. Does anybody anticipate that being a problem As long as you're not coming into Charlotte on an international flight, you're good. Their international baggage claim is perpetually broken, causing customs to back up to eternity.
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Waroduce posted:Anyone have experience with ALOFT? a king bed is in a 300sqft room....but I want the spg points...it's the only spg thing around my client and it's next to a gym... I've enjoyed the alofts in Phoenix airport area and Atlanta. Limited service but clean. Low expectations are key to success. Comfy beds.
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