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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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[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.