Stuck in the airport

[coach]

Louisville, Kentucky. Delayed until 11:20. Just hoping it doesn’t get cancelled. All shops closed. Just me and a few hopeful souls trying to get to Baltimore.

 

[contender]

Sometimes life just sux!

But sometimes,,, it hands you a wonderful surprise!

Ups & downs,,, we all have them!

 

[coach]

Believe it or not the cool jazz Muzak they’re playing isn’t too bad. But then again I’ve been up since 5:00.

 

[Cholo]

Sorry you're stranded Maybe the Muzak will keep you from looking at CNN

 

[coach]

The seem to have replaced CNN with MSNBC. Still not watching.

 

[SAJohn]

Any of us who had have to do a lot of commercial flying have our horror stories. Baggage lost, returning to the departure airport because of mechanical problems, hours on the tarmac on a hot day with no air conditioning, routed to another airport because of weather, and my favorite, sleeping all night in a terminal.

In the early days of commercial aviation there was a saying "if you absolutely have to be somewhere at a given time, take the train". Sadly passenger trains are mostly history and, for some reason, they never crossed oceans.

 

[pete44ru]

Louisville, Kentucky. Delayed until 11:20. Just hoping it doesn’t get cancelled. All shops closed. Just me and a few hopeful souls trying to get to Baltimore.

You could have driven almost to Baltimore by the time your plane "might" depart.


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[coach]

You’re just about right. I doubt I could make the drive and not fall asleep though.

 

[Fox Mike]

Hope you get out soon. Of course you could rent a car and make it to B'more in about 12 hours. The last time I was there was February 1960 and I probably wished then that I hadn't made it. My next stop was the US Army Reception Station at Ft Knox.

 

[coach]

Revised departure at 11:10. At least it’s moving in the right direction. Still lots of military passing through.

 

[JFB]

Surprised the Airport allows you to access RugerForum.

The absolute BEST time I ever had while be stuck at an airport was at Louisville.

I was there working an emergency problem for the utility and it happen to be the week before Derby! I was able to keep my hotel through the repairs and finished up Derby Day. Unable to make any reservations to leave the day after, BUT I went and got on standby for all flights going my way.

Sitting at that bar/restraunt just outside secured area, the mint julips and derby pie flowed! while the whole crowd was experiancing delays every one was in a party mood. even times when someone got called they had a flight, they declined and keep parting.

to tell the truth, I can't remember if I got out Sunday night or Monday Morning

Good luck and hope you get out tonight

 

[coach]

Touch down BWI. No problem with Ruger forum. The free WiFi only lasts 20 minutes anyway. Using my data.

 

[Mobuck]

It would require some VERY special circumstances to get me to fly commercial airlines these days.

 

[Bull Barrel]

I dont think being stuck in Louisville on the way to Baltimore is a bad thing.

Why does everyone call pavement at an airport "tarmac"?

 

[pete44ru]

Why does everyone call pavement at an airport "tarmac"?

The term dates from when us Yanks did some of our military service in England during the world wars.

"Tarmac" (short for tarmacadam) is a type of road/runway surfacing material patented by English inventor Edgar Purnell Hooley in 1902.

The term is also used for a variety of other materials, including tar-grouted macadam, bituminous surface treatments, and modern asphalt concrete.

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[Bull Barrel]

Correct..asphalt.
Ever notice most pavement at airports is concrete and not asphalt?
So why do people use the term tarmac and only when referring to airports?

 

[opos]

I spent the better part of 25 years traveling weekly on planes....Territory was most of the US much of that time.....12-15 days a month in airports and en route...In the days when flying was not that difficult but still enough of anything will get to you...I still know the look when we are in the airport heading somewhere when the "traveling man" walks in...that look is only gained with millions of air miles.....This song by Jerry Reed told my story ..hope you enjoy and hope you never have to deal with the things that go with that life style.

https://youtu.be/HbXOd-XLwC8

 

[JFB]

I actually loved that life style

At least I stayed a couple weeks on a job when I got called out, so not as many days in an airport, BUT all my trips were on short notice and all hours (even the returns).


I prefer slightly more rocking traveling song. My favorite two were
big ol jetliner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEp_IAfyldo
on the road agin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QexOuH8GS-Y

 

[Carrij]

I still know the look when we are in the airport heading somewhere when the "traveling man" walks in...that look is only gained with millions of air miles.

Like you I did close to 20 years of weekly travel. Many a time on a Friday with an associate, waiting on a delayed flight while the happy masses of people off on an adventure paraded past. To us it was the same as being stuck in freeway traffic trying to get home for the weekend and knowing that you had to do it all over again on Monday.

 

[bogus bill]

Sometimes those things we did as adventures on our own cost, when you get a job and get paid doing them lose their allure, or so they say. I did it in reverse. Now retired my biggest pastime hobby is sitting on the bench at Walmart while the wife shops, profiling people. The longer I get to sit there the more it cost`s me.

 

[wheelgun1958]

Why does everyone call pavement at an airport "tarmac"?

The term dates from when us Yanks did some of our military service in England during the world wars.

"Tarmac" (short for tarmacadam) is a type of road/runway surfacing material patented by English inventor Edgar Purnell Hooley in 1902.

The term is also used for a variety of other materials, including tar-grouted macadam, bituminous surface treatments, and modern asphalt concrete.

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Those of us who work on the aluminum tubes usually refer to it as the ramp.