Life Observation # 198 Airport Observation – Have you ever noticed?
Observations sitting in Airports – Have you ever noticed?
This one has been sitting on
the back burner for a while now so I thought I would post it now. When I traveled extensively I noticed while
sitting in airports for my next flight how people move about the airport.
Those people going to the
gate for departure move fairly slowly unless they are late and are trying to
run to the gate to make their flight.
If you sit and watch people
arriving from a flight it appears no matter from which gate they arrive but every
single person whose flights had just arrived I’m not sure if you’ve noticed
this but those people walk super-fast when they get off an airplane. It’s as if the momentum from flying through
the air at 500 miles per hour continues once passengers are allowed out of
their seats at the gate. I’ve watched over
and over again over the years as several airplanes pull up to their gates and
every single time, a few minutes later, 200 passengers burst out of the jet way
at hyper-speed blasting through the terminal building like blazing comets.
My guess is that they
maintain this daredevil pace until they reached the luggage carousel, where
they then probably got upset at having to wait 15 minutes for their luggage. Alaska Airlines was pretty good about getting
your luggage and I always tried to just have carry-on backpacks to avoid the
chaos at baggage claim.
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