Stan Horwitz wrote:
> Right. At PHL, they don't do that. In fact, any food retailer at PHL is
> required by Philadelphia to charge street prices for their food.
>
> http://www.philamarketplace.com/info/FAQ.cfm?#Q10
>
> http://www.phl.org/news/030323.html
>
> Thanks to a penchant for traveling, having relatives who live far from
> from Philadelphia, and a dad who hates to drive, I have been flying in
> and out of PHL since age 9. Being as though I am 48 now, that means I
> have been using PHL for nearly 30 years with an average of three or four
> times a year.
>
> In its current configuration, PHL is lightyears a head of where it was
> for passengers' convenience and comfort than it was even a few years
> ago. For example, in the concourse by terminal C, there are numerous
> rocking chairs where one can sit and relax during those periods when
> flights are delayed and a nice food court and several full service
> restaurants.
>
> Once about four years ago, just as I arrived at PHL for an 8:00am flight
> to Salt Lake City for a business meeting, snow started to fall. It was a
> blinding blizzard that brought the airport to a halt. I didn't want to
> pay to take a shuttle bus back home, so I took out my laptop, sat in one
> of those rocking chairs and I caught up on a lot of reading via the
> wi-fi. Before I knew it, about four hours passed so I got something for
> lunch, then I walked the length of the airport three or four times
> before I ended up at the international terminal where they have the most
> comfortable waiting area chairs and I sat there for at least another two
> hours reading. My flight out of PHL ended up being delayed by the snow
> for 8 hours, then when I arrived at Denver for the second leg of my
> trip, that flight was delayed two hours, so by the time I got to my
> hotel in Provo, I had been traveling for something like 12 hours, but it
> wasn't bad at all waiting thanks to the accommodations at PHL.
>

It sounds like the PHL airport has a lot of advantages. Now, they
should work on getting people's luggage to them in a timely manner.


Becca