Top Ten Air Travel Thoughts
Long airport layovers give a person plenty of think time. Here are 10 things I’ve been thinking while sitting in airports lately.
10. Sitting beside a sweet 12-year-old during her first flight ever makes flying fun again.
9. Smart phone boarding passes. Totally worth the price of an iPhone.
8. If we can send men to the moon, why can’t escalator handrails be programmed to move at the same speed as the escalator steps?
7. I predict that in the next few years cup holders will become a fixture, not only on chairs in airport gates, but also in airport bathroom stalls.
6. Airport coffee shops. Ahhh!
5. Diabetics, people with celiac disease, and dairy allergies should never be assigned to airport gates directly across from Cinnabon. It’s cruel and unusual punishment.
4. In addition their two free bags policy, Southwest Airlines flight crews give extra peanuts if you ask.
3. They also let you use the bathroom before take off. Especially if you ask with a very pained expression. Don’t ask how I know this.
2. And when they page a passenger with an ordinary name to come to the front of the plane, they also page Brad Pitt. Believe me, that gets everyone’s attention right away.
1. Sadly, the powers that be removed the Blues Brother statue from its spot between the A and B terminals at Chicago Midway Airport. Only the sight of a Southwest gate attendant in a black fedora mitigated this traveler’s disappointment.
What do you think about during airport layovers? Keep it clean, people!
