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"Thank you for flying Southwest. I hope you find your way to your gate!"
"It's been a pleasure serving you. Oh, and I have some cheap Neil Diamond tickets for the first five people in my brother's minivan."
"Branford...Cornfield...who knew?"
"Damn...just seventy more pounds of jet fuel and we could have made it."
"What are you bitching about? We didn't charge you for your luggage!"
(Thank you, I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip your poster.)
redwitch
(14,933 posts)How do you land at the wrong airport????
Does not inspire confidence.
Atman
(31,464 posts)The two airports are very close. Both are single-strip runways. When you're way up in the air (I'm trying to express this in my best layman's terms), you see a bunch of lights. They have a switch -- or transponder or whatever you call it -- on the plane that activates the runway lights. They are not left on all the time at these small airports. So, SW clicked their clicker and the runway lights lit up. But they lit up at two different airports. In a place like this, there are so few flights that it is not expected that a full staff is in the tower...they winged it, so to speak. They had two small single-runway airports within close proximity of each other (remember, they weren't flying at 60 mph on a turnpike, they were several hundred feet above ground air moving fast). With not contact to the tower, so maybe they fucked up.
Maybe.
Maybe they were drunk, maybe it was Denzel Washington flying the plane, maybe maybe maybe.
Maybe you can sit back and take a fucking breath.
redwitch
(14,933 posts)I didn't mean it to be. Also didn't know how close together the two airports are.
"Maybe you can sit back and take a fucking breath. " ?????
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Atman
(31,464 posts)Just a little banter. Pretend you're actually talking to a friend (yup, that's me!) face to face. No harm, man! Chill, mellow, all that. Just making conversation.
Next you'll be telling me I hate women and gays! < THAT WAS TOTALLY SARCASM!
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)for situations like this with two small airports, 1 runway each, close together - have different color lights for each airport's runway.
Dash87
(3,220 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)You, sir? As we're coming in would you mind stopping by the cockpit and pointing it out to us?"
Atman
(31,464 posts)I tried to find some "Airplane" clips to post, but they were to funny and just wound up laughing my ass off.