I've got the power! Or have I? Uninterruptible Phone-disposal Stuffup In some parts of the world a festival involving chocolate eggs and bunnies is about to begin. For this poor kiosk, it appears festivities are temporarily at a halt. The kiosk in question lurks within the Lehigh Valley Mall, in Pennsylvania, USA. A nice part of the world located near the city of Allentown and not far from the …
Years ago I used to holiday frequently in the NW of Ireland, near "Carrickfinn airfield", a small grass-airstrip place in the middle of nowhere where you had to book the fire brigade from the local town to come out & wait when a plane was due in.
Some years later I was surprised to find it had become "Donegal International Airport", tarmac strip, fence, terminal building, the works. It was "international" because of the weekly flight to Glasgow. Pork barrel politics at its best.
From Wiki: "Passenger services were reported as "to end on 31 January 2016",[15] although British Airways/Sun-Air continued temporarily to operate flights from Cambridge to Gothenburg. Since 24 March 2016 tickets have not been available to the general public.[16] As of November 2017 the flights now originate in Manchester with a brief stop in Cambridge."
Sure it's International. Just not quite as much as the OP's "flight to Canada or Mexico" which are probably ongoing, regular weekly passenger services (or will be again, post-Covid).
Note that the "International" designation gives certain benefits, tax-wise and etc. I don't know about you, but if I ran an airport I'd certainly take advantage of all the financial incentives that I was legally capable of getting. If adding "international" to the name gives me more, hand me a bucket of paint!
I absolutely loved flying to Amsterdam on Suckling Airways from Cambridge. No need to leave home more than about 30+40 mins before flight. Drive down to airport, park in front of the building. Wander in, show ticket, get boarding pass (laminated piece of card with number on it), walk 2 feet hand it back and trundle out the doors, across tarmac up the steps to little Dornier. Coffee and nice home made rolls for breakkie in flight.
Sadly Schiphol end was of course the usual big airport experience.
Used to do that trip often. Some weeks every day.
More mix-up: I'm about to take a trip to my parents' place, through multiple metro areas with HOV lanes. With the whole family in the rental minivan we certainly qualify as HOV, but sure hope it doesn't OVHeat! (Thermal, that is, not to be confused with the 'overeat' I might do at a few choice restaurants; if that were OVH-eat you may call me Mr. Creosote.)
What's that? Go on and leave and take the lame jokes with me? Fine...
Like Orlando-Melbourne international airport, which is nowhere near Orlando.
Like Orlando-Sanford international airport, which is closer, but still nowhere near Orlando.
I keep having people fly in, and have to tell them "sorry mate, you're going to have to pay one hell of a taxi fare" and "no, I'm not going to pick you up"
Not quite 100 miles. Melbourne is 50ish miles away, and Sanford under 25.
"I keep having people fly in, and have to tell them "sorry mate, you're going to have to pay one hell of a taxi fare" and "no, I'm not going to pick you up""
Quite regularly? Instead of enjoying their misfortune, you could actually inform them before they purchase their ticket. You know, be friendly and proactive about it ... the poor bastards are already saddled with having to endure Florida, without adding getting lost to their list of travails.
a bus to take us to the aircraft. Which it did. On a bone-crunching 90-minute road-trip
I remember getting a BA flight from Ottawa to London which had a connection in Montreal. The Ottawa-Montreal leg was a 2-hour bus journey, which had a flight number (and for which I got airmiles!).
Back in the early '80s I was accidentally flown into LAX. Should have been BUR (Burbank). Arrived just before 4PM on a Wednesday, had to be on site by 6. Have you ever tried to navigate LA freeways at that hour? My destination might as well have been on another continent. You know how expensive it is to book a small, private aircraft at the last minute? Try it with a helicopter.
I made the meeting. I didn't get the emergency call out +graveyard bonus, though. Seems the chopper ride ate it (which I was blamed for, despite not even knowing the company name before I was on the ground!). This was the incident that caused the company to outfit us emergency field service guys with new-fangled DynaTACs ...
"an ecoATM, a device designed to take unwanted smartphones and handout payment to customers without the need to trouble a salesperson."
Now I have to look that up.
So, it's a real thing. I would have guessed that distributing thousands of machines which have enough hardware to inspect phones wouldn't be an economical method of entering the used phone market, but apparently they're giving it a go. I wonder what the machine does if you feed it phones that aren't all that common, for example the old phone from a relatively unpopular manufacturer I have in the closet. Then again, I'm also wondering how it will detect various types of hardware issues that aren't easily visible with a camera.
I was also wondering how the machines confirm that you actually own the phone that you put in. Must make it pretty easy for thieves to cash in.
Hell, I can even see your "mate" (you know the one, the one who thinks he's great and that jokes like that are all in good fun. The one everyone hates but can't quite get rid of) grabbing your phone and putting it in the machine for a laugh.
...when I was at Lehigh Uni as an undergrad the bartender at the A(llentown), B(ethlehem), E(aston) airport used to serve us in spite of our tender age. We were often his only customers. This was in the late 1960's.
He had a huge collection of cigarette lighters.
I see ABE has come up in the world.
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