Red Mosquito

Also Strat you might’ve been at EGE the same time as Mrs Spike

Chris_H_2 wrote:Back in Rome for two days to wrap this trip up. Today was a good day.

Random encounter - ran into another attorney I know well from chicago behind the capitoline museum (my favorite view of rome). this after my wife ran into a former colleague in positano last week. which was two days after I ran into an old college buddy near piazza del popolo last week. Such a big, but small, world.

Gets a lot smaller when you stick to the affluent white person spots.

spike wrote:

Strat wrote:Quick trip to Baltimore to meet up with the Mrs. for a few days before we come back home.

Meeting up with friends and going to the orioles and twins game.

Flying out of Vail and beer in hand. Boop

Good luck on the quick part, especially if you’re connecting through DIA.

Lol. Flight delayed three times.

Im not gonna get to baltimore at all.

DIA sucks.

Sorry man. I don’t think it’s going to get better until after the holiday at this point.

Mrs. Spike has boarded her flight, but now they’re delayed due to potential Chicago weather ffs. She had flights booked on two other airlines as well to hedge.

spike wrote:Sorry man. I don’t think it’s going to get better until after the holiday at this point.

Mrs. Spike has boarded her flight, but now they’re delayed due to potential Chicago weather ffs. She had flights booked on two other airlines as well to hedge.

The airport looks like the end of the world. Cots laid out everywhere. Food carts from airlines to customers. I should have just walked to baltimore.

Or grabbed a tent and went out to the middle of nowhere.

Go Orioles

Strat wrote:

spike wrote:Sorry man. I don’t think it’s going to get better until after the holiday at this point.

Mrs. Spike has boarded her flight, but now they’re delayed due to potential Chicago weather ffs. She had flights booked on two other airlines as well to hedge.

The airport looks like the end of the world. Cots laid out everywhere. Food carts from airlines to customers. I should have just walked to baltimore.

Or grabbed a tent and went out to the middle of nowhere.

Go Orioles

Yeah I imagine it’s only gotten worse today. Overheard people yesterday saying they’ve been stuck there for three days. The entire place is scuzzy as fuck. Hope you get out, or least find a rental car to take back home.

This is why I only travel by car now

Mrs. Spike made it home only two hours late.

3 days stuck at airport (with kids) is the purest nightmare fuel I’ve ever heard of.

Fucking awful.

Delays. Cancels. Rebooks. Plane transfers. Gate changes.

Finally got on a plane headed to Dulles. Fully loaded. On the runway.

Nothing happens.

"Sorry folks we have to turn this plane around as we have timed out".

Fuck off you fuck fucks.

1215 am. Finally cancelled. No flights out until 11 pm tomorrow and those include multiple layovers and 24 hours of travel for $800.

Taking the train back to the city. Uber to a friends. Will have to air mattress then figure out how to get back up to the mountains tomorrow.

I'm done flying.

WTF does “timed out” mean?

wease wrote:WTF does “timed out” mean?

I'm pretty sure the flight crew reaches a point where they will go beyond, or potentially, go beyond their time to fly and need to rest. the pilots have to have a certain amount of hours of rest.

I could be wrong though.

wease wrote:WTF does “timed out” mean?

FAA regulations on how long pilots and crew members are on duty.

Strat wrote:

wease wrote:WTF does “timed out” mean?

FAA regulations on how long pilots and crew members are on duty.

Ah. That’s what was holding up our youngest flying from Charlotte to Nashville on Monday. They were waiting on crew to come back on. Her flight was supposed to leave at 5:something pm. It didn’t leave till 11:50pm and we didn’t get back home with her until 3am.

Why would they even put the crew on the fucking plane knowing their time would be up?

wease wrote:

Strat wrote:

wease wrote:WTF does “timed out” mean?

FAA regulations on how long pilots and crew members are on duty.

Ah. That’s what was holding up our youngest flying from Charlotte to Nashville on Monday. They were waiting on crew to come back on. Her flight was supposed to leave at 5:something pm. It didn’t leave till 11:50pm and we didn’t get back home with her until 3am.

Why would they even put the crew on the fucking plane knowing their time would be up?

Airline industry is a criminal enterprise

The Tupac hologram was ahead of its time.

Won’t be long now til we’re all in those Matrix breeding pods experiencing everything virtually, no need to go anywhere. They bring the show to us.

Strat wrote:

wease wrote:

Strat wrote:

wease wrote:WTF does “timed out” mean?

FAA regulations on how long pilots and crew members are on duty.

Ah. That’s what was holding up our youngest flying from Charlotte to Nashville on Monday. They were waiting on crew to come back on. Her flight was supposed to leave at 5:something pm. It didn’t leave till 11:50pm and we didn’t get back home with her until 3am.

Why would they even put the crew on the fucking plane knowing their time would be up?

Airline industry is a criminal enterprise

You may be on to something

I wish we could go back to better, more efficient times - like when you could sit on a tarmac with the door closed and pulled away from the gate for 4 hours while you ride out a ground stop at LaGuardia.

The FAA is out of control. Any little bit of weather and they ground everyone.