We knew that we had a very tight layover at ORD, so we came prepared. Yesterday, my colleague and I arrived at CTL in the late afternoon, about two hours prior to our flight so that we could eat dinner before our flight. I spent about an hour and a half at MSP, another two hours at ORD, and an hour at CTL, waiting for a colleague to arrive. Paul and O’Hare, before arriving at Charlotte-Douglas.
On Thursday, I traveled to Charlotte, NC for a conference, passing through Minneapolis/St. Last weekend, I had the opportunity to spend a lot of time in a few airports. I just liked to watch the people who were there to travel. Paul airport, there were multiple opportunities for food and window shopping, but that wasn’t my main focus. This was before the days of heightened security, so any person could choose to pass through the metal detectors and hang out. The plane, was of course, still manoeuvring towards take-off.Ĭhris, I completely agree with you! Back when I was in high school, circa the early nineties, I liked to visit the airport just for fun. After what appeared to her a lengthy period she did take a glance out and to her relief saw they were on land - the flight must have been so smooth it had passed unnoticed. I had an aunt who around the time of the quote given above went on an aeroplane for the first time, determined not to look out of the window. At Heathrow? Flying then was still a novelty for most people. Steaks would be cooked to order - eggs, too, on breakfast flights." The song’s narrator is sitting in the departure lounge not just with a coffee but a cigarette and news about the weather is given by ‘the girl in information turning with a smile to break the news.the fog is on its way’. Once, a first-class meal might have included turtle soup served from a tureen, Chateaubriand carved seatside, and cherries jubilee. Once, there were planes with piano lounges.
To quote from one account of flying in the mid-sixties: ".boarding a plane was such an event that stewardesses took souvenir Polaroids of passengers as if they were sailing on an ocean liner or catching a dinner show. There is an obvious mismatch between the picture of the airport drawn by the song and the reality that most people experience, partly because of the age of the song :it came out in 1970 and reflects a different world of air travel.
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