Posts Tagged amsterdam

CDG – Now I Remember Why I Don’t Like It

In Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris.  Haven’t been here for years, but remember vaguely not liking it.  Now I know why. It takes 15 minutes to get from the runway to the terminal building.  That’s not including the time required to get the gantries in place, etc – just taxiing time. Security is both shite [...]

November 9th, 2008 at 13:00 in Random Rocks, Security | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments

Aer Lingus EI118 – Delayed 24 hours…so far

Just met some of the EI118 passengers in Dulles Airport (IAD).  They’re on their third trip to the airport, having failed to depart yesterday evening as planned.  They were initially left on the plane on the tarmac for five hours yesterday. This afternoon, they were brought back to the airport and put on a plane [...]

November 9th, 2008 at 03:41 in Random Rocks | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments