Becca wrote:
> Dave Smith wrote:
>> It is not just the flight time. There is the time it takes to get to
>> the airport, being there early, layovers, possible delays. Last we we
>> flew Estonia and Scandinavia. That involved leaving here to an
>> airport and hour and a half from home and allowing extra time for
>> traffic problems and to get parking lot and over to the airport 2-3
>> hours ahead of the flight time. A few years before that we flew
>> Buffalo to Denver with a connection in Cleveland. It is at least an
>> hour to the airport, provided that it is clear sailing through the
>> border, which it often isn't. We were told to be there an hour before
>> the flight. We had a layover in Cleveland, then another 3 hour
>> flight. The food on each of the two flights snacks. I suppose we
>> could have had some expensive crappy fast food at the airport. While
>> flying time was four hours total, it was more like 8 hours from the
>> time we left home until we arrived very hungry in Denver.
>
> Sounds horrible.

Well, it wasn't that bad. I was just thinking about how I can sympathize
with someone wanting to take something to eat on a plane. It is not just
the time in the air but all the time to get to the airport and to be
there ahead of time for the flight, layovers etc. Most airports don't
have much to offer in the way of food, and airport food tends to be
expensive.


> We had a flight out of the Dallas airport, and most of
> the restaurants were closed before 8:00pm. We found a BBQ place that
> was still open, and right after we got our order they closed. They told
> the next people they were closed, then they stared at as as if we did
> something wrong. Sorry. :-( We had a flight out of the Shreveport
> airport, and their food service was at 7:00pm. We had to eat food from
> a vending machine. We are flying out of Shreveport again in January, and
> I am bringing my own food. Sonsabitches... lol


My worst experience was probably the layover at Schipol last year
because it was a four hour layover. We had been fed on the plane on the
way over, but the food was not great. We were dog tired. We could have
had a bite to eat just to help pass the time. We didn't have any Euros
and the exchange rates and transaction fees would have made a snack
really expensive. What we really needed was sleep.