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Re: Airport Drinks After Arrival?
[Re: JeanneB]
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12/22/2023 10:31 AM
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Tim--not to mention, airline delays, either making the second person get in later, or making the first person get in after the other person. Jeanne--where are you staying? Might be better to just plan to meet at the hotel, if it's close.
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Re: Airport Drinks After Arrival?
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12/22/2023 07:00 PM
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Re: Airport Drinks After Arrival?
[Re: JeanneB]
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12/23/2023 07:41 AM
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I saw multiple mentions of 6+hours in line and then another 1-2 hours to get luggage.
J.D.
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Re: Airport Drinks After Arrival?
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12/23/2023 08:52 AM
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Re: Airport Drinks After Arrival?
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12/23/2023 10:14 AM
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Arrivals have been bad, but I don't understand why yesterday was so exponentially worse? And aren't there going to be even more planes today? I can't imagine 6 hours in line. That just doesn't make sense.
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Re: Airport Drinks After Arrival?
[Re: Carol_Hill]
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12/23/2023 10:22 AM
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I agree....the math doesn't work....so a maybe 2pm arrival got out of the airport around 10pm? (6+2)...on a Friday?
Edit to add: although United, American, JetBlue and Delta all arrived within a 30 minute period....even with that six + two hours seems a bit much
Last edited by boucharda; 12/23/2023 10:28 AM.
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Re: Airport Drinks After Arrival?
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12/23/2023 10:24 AM
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I saw multiple mentions of 6+hours in line and then another 1-2 hours to get luggage.
Saw those reports on Facebook too. Hope it was exaggerations for those arriving. Today could be worse
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Re: Airport Drinks After Arrival?
[Re: SXMScubaman]
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12/23/2023 11:43 AM
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There may have been some exaggerations but even at 3 hours, that is unacceptable.
There are at least 5 US carriers scheduled to arrive today within a 2-hour window, Air Transat is delayed and then more US carriers and Air France a couple of hours later. I would expect today to be no better and likely worse.
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Re: Airport Drinks After Arrival?
[Re: JeanneB]
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12/23/2023 12:26 PM
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I’m on the plane in CLT now. We “departed” on time, however, after we pushed back the pilot announced that we were going to be sitting here (on the tarmac) due to the “flow” in SXM for an hour and 10 minutes….
Last edited by JeanneB; 12/23/2023 12:29 PM.
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Re: Airport Drinks After Arrival?
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12/23/2023 12:35 PM
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Looking forward to learning what your experience is like.
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Re: Airport Drinks After Arrival?
[Re: JeanneB]
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12/23/2023 01:31 PM
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Looks like AA 2504 will be 27 minutes late arriving from CLT (so far)
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Re: Airport Drinks After Arrival?
[Re: JeanneB]
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12/24/2023 08:56 AM
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Good deal. It appears things went better than on Friday but I wonder if the staggering of arrivals made for any delayed departures and then missed connections? Enjoy!
J.D.
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