Airport Non-Adventure
Thanksgiving weekend is actually about ten travel intense days of crowded roads and nightmarish scenes at the airport. With Adventure Man coming coming in to meet me in Seattle, I head for the airport a little early. With all the college football games on, the roads are surprisingly clear. I get to the airport early, and . . . there is no crowd! I even get rock-star parking, right by the overhead walkway to the airport.
I can’t always remember where I parked, so I take a photo.
It’s a good thing I am early, even with no crowd at all – his flight also arrives early, the bags come, and we are out of the airport in good time. It’s not your Kuwait airport, either, with the reasonable parking fees. Here, we pay $7.00 for one hour.
It must have been an anomaly, but the airport was nearly empty. Here is the traffic – imagine!
This airport is normally a madhouse. They have done one really smart thing, though. They have a cell phone waiting lot, where people picking up arriving passengers can wait until they get that call, and then just drive up to arrivals, pick up their passenger and depart. It’s not really that fast, usually there are thousands of people so you just crawl along, but once you pick up the person you’re there to pick up, it’s a fairly fast get-away.
We were glad to have a non-adventure.
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The cell phone lot is the best thing ever at US airports. Every airport I have been to in the last 2 years either has one or is building one (except the tiny airports that have almost no parking fees or traffic.) It leaves the parking for those who need it and keeps the extra people out of the baggage area. A great idea!
I totally agree. Also saves that huge parking fee!