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We should have you at the gate in just under two hours–two and a half if we get pulled over.
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I once took an in-country flight in Germany and we taxied so long that I was looking for highway exit signs because we were clearly driving instead of flying.
I read “bridge clearance” as clearance from the ATC to detatch from the bridge and was so confused lol
There really is an xkcd for everything.
Sometimes it do be like that
Haha, this is just about the Charlotte airport…
About to go through there tomorrow. Is it as bad as I’ve heard? Only flown twice before (to Mexico and back from Tennessee), went through Knoxville and Atlanta on the way in, then Detroit and Knoxville on the way back.
I see Randall has been listening to Cabin Pressure.
They joke, but… www.aa.com/i18n/travel-info/…/landline.jsp
A bus that boards at a gate and drives to another airport and drops off at a gate…
There was a video of someone deliberately taking these lines and included someone a bit shocked that the ‘flight’ they booked was just a bus…
i believe this is fairly normal within the same airport for larger ones, the ticket says “gate 15B” but that’s out in the middle of the fucking asphalt so to get there you actually go to gate 15A and get on a bus that takes you to the actual gate.
marcos@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah, I will need an explanation on this.
Do they plan to taxi all the way to the destination?
obstbert@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
That’s how I understand it. Return to bus.
zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
They might be referencing this American Airlines “flight” that is actually a bus.
nerdwallet.com/…/american-airlines-bus-service-la…
tanisnikana@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
11-foot-8! 11-foot-8!
plane arrives at its gate without the top two feet of its fail fin
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Can opener bridge
strikesis struck again!pennomi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah, drive the plane on the ground since the storm makes it hard to fly!
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
You know, those jet engines are LOUD. Sure, they can technically move the plane on regular roads too, but the noise is just astounding.
In a big airport you might not have noticed, because you were either in the terminal or in side a plane when that happened. However, if you’ve visited a smaller airport, you may have stood just outside the fence when someone reved up their jet engines. Imagine that, but even louder, and moving on normal roads. Should be fun for everyone.
marcos@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well, not really. Or technically, they can if they move fast enough. If they stop, wherever they are will stop being a road quickly.
And there’s that entire problem of making room for the wings. It’s one of the largest problems when designing airports.
lars@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
If it were the sound of the Concorde, may she RIP, I think it’s a loud I could tolerate. Sonic booms from like a city block away would relax my nerves.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Of course it’ll be fun for me. Im in the airplane, getting to my destination on time.
ech@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Yes and yes.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
I got thrown for a loop by the word bridge too. It having multiple meanings made me wonder if there’s a bridge in flying parlance that meant something else. Clearance is also very unspecific.
lena@gregtech.eu 3 weeks ago
I think they plan to ignore ATC, turn up their engines and fly away