The busiest travel day of the year...not so far
Category TravelI'm sitting outside gate 2 at Lehigh Valley International (?) airport (ABE = Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton) awaiting the first leg of my 22-hour odyssey to Naples. The far-away one - in fact I'll be visiting both Naples (Napleses? Naples-i?) in the next two weeks. The sleepy airport had nobody in the rental return lot, and I deduced from opening a few car doors that the modus operandi was to drop your keys on the seat. There was no line at 8:30, and I had a nice chat with the Comair/Delta lady who was helping with bags and kiosk checkin (apparently they've deduced as well - that today's average Joe six-pack traveller will likely take more time at the kiosk than they will jumping over the desk and doing it for them). Funny thing was, I'm not on Comair or Delta, I'm on United. The Delta lady just wasn't busy so she was lending United a hand. After all they did have four people at once on the four kiosks.
With a 6-hour layover in Dulles awaiting me at the other end of this flight, I'm pretty sure the mass of humanity will become more apparent. So I've mapped out time to finish my Clear card process there with an iris scan and fingerprints, renew my recently lapsed Red Carpet Club membership, and make another attempt to upgrade my DC-Munich flight. I could really use the laptop juice on the flight. When else am I going to write Lotusphere sessions?
Speaking of...I feel another blog entry or two coming on at the Red Carpet Club. When it rains it pours.
Last but not least, Happy 13th Birthday(!) today to my son Sean who's flying home today with Liz. Happily we got to see NYC together - Times Square, Rockefeller Center, Grand Central, and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade - before coming to Pennsylvania.
