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[cellio]

My (rebooked) flight landed in Pittsburgh around 7:45AM and I was reunited with Baldur by 9. (Reunion with Dani will have to wait, since he'd already left for work by the time I got home.) I haven't read all my email, to say nothing of LJ and G+, and I doubt I'll even try to catch up. If there's something you think I should see, you know how to find me.

The Newark airport is a well-oiled machine, especially compared to Toronto Peterson where they're still rubbing sticks together to try to figure out how to make fire. I was at my connecting gate 35 minutes after stepping off the first plane -- including passport control, baggage claim, customs, baggage recheck, train to another terminal, and TSA. Granted it was 4AM, but I got a very favorable impression. I would fly through there again, were I to fly where that's relevant. (The airline was United. I don't know how much credit goes to the airline and how much to the airport, but that combination was smooth, at least.)

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[fauxklore]

My one experience arriving at EWR (Newark) from an international flight was also very smooth. I think it took me 5 minutes to get through immigration and my checked bag was there right away.

However, that airport is pretty bad if you have to actually wait in line to check in there. (I normally check in on-line, but United's merger with Continental meant I couldn't do that for my first post-merger international flight.)

[indigodove.livejournal.com]

Welcome home! I am glad you & Baldur are back together.

[alaricmacconnal.livejournal.com]

Welcome home!

[siderea]

The Newark airport is a well-oiled machine, especially compared to Toronto Peterson

Only in comparison. Newark is a disaster. A dirty, rundown disaster that can't get out of its own way.

tn3270 and I flew from there once, and things were SNAFU. While we and several hundred (thousand?) other people waited for them to get their acts together, he came back from the men's room reporting that he overheard a little boy of about 7yo ask, "Daddy, why is they plane late?" to which the man accompanying him replied, "Because it's Newark."

To this day, "Because it's Newark" -- or just "Newark!" -- is one of our little jokes.

ETA: Also "We could have driven in this amount of time."

[cellio]

Oh. Thank you for that additional information!

"Because it's Newark" made me laugh.

[dragonazure.livejournal.com]

Welcome home! Glad you made it safe and sound and are getting time to spend with Baldur.

[ticklethepear.livejournal.com]

welcome home!

[chaos-wrangler.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you had a better trip back, and even more so that you can have more time with Baldur.

[dagonell.livejournal.com]

SF Author Rob Sawyer posted on his Facebook wall that his airline just arbitrarily re-scheduled his flight for 12 hours later and now he's going to miss an entire day of Worldcon. I'll give you one guess which airline. :)

[cellio]

Ugh. I hope he also files a complaint.

[mbarr.livejournal.com]

Newark airport does a nice job of customs.

I've flown in via JFK & Newark, and it's much better in Newark.

Both directions are easier to israel, as well.

[cellio]

Our tour (my only other trip to Israel) went through JFK both ways and it sure felt like it took longer. At the time I didn't have any basis for comparison, but I remember a lot of walking and waiting. (And our return flight was the same timing as what I just took; in fact, I think it was the same flight other than the airport, and that it was Continental before United bought them).