Yes... all the waiting and no one ever telling us what is going on... every single trip... so we stopped flying anywhere ever. We just do family road trips now. Enough to see in Canada and USA .... screw the rest of the world
Don't blame you at all. My wife likes to fly more than she does to drive, so the longest we do is a 16 hour trip to Southern California that normally gets split up with an overnight stay somewhere up and back. Still cheaper to do that than flying.
Getting to Mexico go is a trickier proposition. Maybe we should just go to Canada instead? :) That's only a six to seven hour drive as opposed to several days to where her sisters live in Mexico.
Yeah... so much to see in Canada and USA ... we love Boston, Cape Cod, New York, etc... the only place we would ever fly back to is Italy... the rest of the World is getting messed up
Hmmm, it seems like they should have been able to find documents or make new ones for him in 18 years! That's nuts.
I didn't realize that he was the inspiration for the film. I think that if I had nothing better to do, or no other plans, it could be fun for a little while. But sooner or later, I'd want to get back to reality.
Hmmm, it seems like they should have been able to find documents or make new ones for him in 18 years! That's nuts.
Reading the Wikipedia article, a big part of the problem seems to be that he was insisting on returning to the UK and declining any offers to go somewhere else. It's not unlikely that his documents were intentionally lost as well.
I think that if I had nothing better to do, or no other plans, it could be fun for a little while. But sooner or later, I'd want to get back to reality.
I hate airports, wouldn't want to stay there more than absolutely necessary.
It seems that his case is not completely unique, getting stuck on airports happens from time to time - Wikipedia even has an article "List of people who have lived at airports". I do remember when Snowden got stuck on Sheremetov.
It's clear from the list that some persons voluntarily decides to get "stuck" on airports. Oh well, I guess that if one is homeless, the airport is not the worst shelter one can find ...
Mehran Karimi Nasseri
Mehran Karimi Nasseri (Persian: مهران کریمی ناصری pronounced [mehˈrɒn kʲæriˈmi nɒseˈri]; born 1942), also known as Sir, Alfred Mehran, is an Iranian refugee who lived in the departure lounge of Terminal One in Charles de Gaulle Airport from 26 August 1988 until July 2006, when he was hospitalized for an unspecified ailment. His autobiography has been published as a book, The Terminal Man, in 2004. His story was the inspiration for the 2004 Steven Spielberg film The Terminal.
all the waiting and no one ever telling us what is going on...
The information flow is often quite sub-optimal. I've been waiting for arriving airplanes that have been more than an hour delayed, with the information screen telling nothing about delays even after the expected arrival time. The staff in the on-arrival-duty-free-shop obviously knew, because they were nowhere to be seen until right before arrival.
On another occasion I took a photo of "expected landing 17:10" at 17:20.
Twice I've been delayed and have had luck with outgoing airplanes being delayed - except, I didn't know they were delayed. Once in Brussels, we had many hours between airplanes, so we left our luggage in a storage box in the terminal. Unfortunately, when leaving out, we had the plane in another terminal and we were denied access to the storage boxes. It took us a whopping hour to resolve that problem - and of course they went all the way with checking in the security control - belts off, shoes off, etc ... I was running as hard as I could with my trousers almost on my knees, laptop charger cable trailing me as a tail, belt in the other hand - and luckily the plane was delayed.
Another time, in transit and arriving with a delayed plane, the lady in the check-in said "no way, there is no hope that you can catch your plane, we need to book you on the next plane". And guess what, after ticket purchase, check-in, luggage drop, security control ... what did we see? The plane I should have been at were still standing by the gate, boarding hadn't even started. But no way, I was not allowed to enter that plane ...
When escorting an UM, one can follow the child all the way to the gate, one should wait there until the plane is fully boarded, the UMs are the last ones to board. One is not allowed to leave the airport until the airplane has taken off. I ignored that and left the airport as I was in a great hurry. We could see at the Internet that the plane still hadn't taken off looong time after it was supposed to leave, so I jumped off the train and headed back to the airport. I was asking the airplane company staff at the outside of the security control on what was going on, but they were neither able to give me an answer nor able to check up if the plane had left yet or not. I was waiting for like half an hour until I could learn that the plane actually took off long, long time ago.
hey @offgridlife.
Any particular experience involving airports that makes you dislike them, too?
Yes... all the waiting and no one ever telling us what is going on... every single trip... so we stopped flying anywhere ever. We just do family road trips now. Enough to see in Canada and USA .... screw the rest of the world
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Don't blame you at all. My wife likes to fly more than she does to drive, so the longest we do is a 16 hour trip to Southern California that normally gets split up with an overnight stay somewhere up and back. Still cheaper to do that than flying.
Getting to Mexico go is a trickier proposition. Maybe we should just go to Canada instead? :) That's only a six to seven hour drive as opposed to several days to where her sisters live in Mexico.
Yeah... so much to see in Canada and USA ... we love Boston, Cape Cod, New York, etc... the only place we would ever fly back to is Italy... the rest of the World is getting messed up
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Just re-watched "The Terminal" with Tom Hanks. That's a long time waiting in the terminal with no one telling you what's going on!
There was one guy that lost his identity documents and was living for several years trapped at the Charles de Gaulle airport outside Paris.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehran_Karimi_Nasseri
Post-edit: I see now that the above-mentioned film is based on this experience.
18 years ... that's a lot of time!
Hmmm, it seems like they should have been able to find documents or make new ones for him in 18 years! That's nuts.
I didn't realize that he was the inspiration for the film. I think that if I had nothing better to do, or no other plans, it could be fun for a little while. But sooner or later, I'd want to get back to reality.
Reading the Wikipedia article, a big part of the problem seems to be that he was insisting on returning to the UK and declining any offers to go somewhere else. It's not unlikely that his documents were intentionally lost as well.
I hate airports, wouldn't want to stay there more than absolutely necessary.
It seems that his case is not completely unique, getting stuck on airports happens from time to time - Wikipedia even has an article "List of people who have lived at airports". I do remember when Snowden got stuck on Sheremetov.
It's clear from the list that some persons voluntarily decides to get "stuck" on airports. Oh well, I guess that if one is homeless, the airport is not the worst shelter one can find ...
Mehran Karimi Nasseri
Mehran Karimi Nasseri (Persian: مهران کریمی ناصری pronounced [mehˈrɒn kʲæriˈmi nɒseˈri]; born 1942), also known as Sir, Alfred Mehran, is an Iranian refugee who lived in the departure lounge of Terminal One in Charles de Gaulle Airport from 26 August 1988 until July 2006, when he was hospitalized for an unspecified ailment. His autobiography has been published as a book, The Terminal Man, in 2004. His story was the inspiration for the 2004 Steven Spielberg film The Terminal.
The information flow is often quite sub-optimal. I've been waiting for arriving airplanes that have been more than an hour delayed, with the information screen telling nothing about delays even after the expected arrival time. The staff in the on-arrival-duty-free-shop obviously knew, because they were nowhere to be seen until right before arrival.
On another occasion I took a photo of "expected landing 17:10" at 17:20.
Twice I've been delayed and have had luck with outgoing airplanes being delayed - except, I didn't know they were delayed. Once in Brussels, we had many hours between airplanes, so we left our luggage in a storage box in the terminal. Unfortunately, when leaving out, we had the plane in another terminal and we were denied access to the storage boxes. It took us a whopping hour to resolve that problem - and of course they went all the way with checking in the security control - belts off, shoes off, etc ... I was running as hard as I could with my trousers almost on my knees, laptop charger cable trailing me as a tail, belt in the other hand - and luckily the plane was delayed.
Another time, in transit and arriving with a delayed plane, the lady in the check-in said "no way, there is no hope that you can catch your plane, we need to book you on the next plane". And guess what, after ticket purchase, check-in, luggage drop, security control ... what did we see? The plane I should have been at were still standing by the gate, boarding hadn't even started. But no way, I was not allowed to enter that plane ...
When escorting an UM, one can follow the child all the way to the gate, one should wait there until the plane is fully boarded, the UMs are the last ones to board. One is not allowed to leave the airport until the airplane has taken off. I ignored that and left the airport as I was in a great hurry. We could see at the Internet that the plane still hadn't taken off looong time after it was supposed to leave, so I jumped off the train and headed back to the airport. I was asking the airplane company staff at the outside of the security control on what was going on, but they were neither able to give me an answer nor able to check up if the plane had left yet or not. I was waiting for like half an hour until I could learn that the plane actually took off long, long time ago.