heading home

[jazzfish]

LAX, the one true airport hell, of which all others, including our own Dulles, are but shadows. . .

(Honestly, the real problem lay with using Air Canada for the first leg.)

Comments

[ancientsong.livejournal.com]

Safe journey home and I hope you had a great time.

[jazzfish]

Just about everything up to 3:30 PM yesterday was amazing.

At 3:30 I tried to check in at United and got told to go check in at Air Canada instead. It all went downhill from there. I still don't have my razor.

(Full story to follow, eventually.)

[tulip-tree.livejournal.com]

Ah. Yes, Air Canada sucks with both online check-in and codesharing. We've booked through United on a AC plane before, and it's a pain in the neck, but sometimes cheaper.

Westjet's customer service seems to be better than Air Canada, but they don't really fly to the US so that's no help for you.

[rockynomad.livejournal.com]

??? What about O'Hare?

[jazzfish]

O'Hell gets third place because, while it's poorly designed and loud and slow, it doesn't seem to be going too far out of its way to make life difficult. Plus flying in over the lake is breathtaking.

I will now /actively/ avoid changing planes in LAX. As in, I will spend extra time and money to avoid it. O'Hell is more of a "if I can avoid it I will, if I have to go through there, eh."

[tulip-tree.livejournal.com]

Ugh. LAX is terrible. I hope you made it through and are home by now. More importantly, I hope you had a great time in Vancouver!

[jazzfish]

Vancouver was utterly delightful right up until we tried to leave. I suspect it may have been some passive-aggressiveness on the part of the airport.

And I'm home. Well, I'm at work, but close enough. uilos intelligently took the day off.

(That's not the stupid part. The stupid part is, I'll be at work after a red-eye again on Monday!)

[pictsy.livejournal.com]

What?? I love LAX--they have separate security lines for each terminal, whereas Dulles has ONE FRAKKIN SECURITY LINE for all travelers.

[jazzfish]

I imagine the one-security-line trick is handy if you're starting out there.

It's seriously bloody irritating if you're changing planes and have to go through security /again/. Doubly so when you have to sprint across busy roads to get to the right terminal. That's assuming you can find the right terminal in the first place, because unlike all other airports in the known world (including Dulles and O'Hell), LAX has a distinct lack of airport maps, and those that it has still claim you can get from terminal to terminal through magic sky bridges.

Seriously. I may hate Dulles for its godawful slow people-movers, but LAX doesn't even have those.

[pictsy.livejournal.com]

Eww. That reminds me of the last time I had to do a transfer at Heathrow. There was a lot of construction going on and very few signs telling us that a) I had to take a tram to get to the next terminal and b) which bloody tram to take. Then when I finally got to the right terminal I had to go through security *and* customs!