It’s after 10:00PM and I’m sitting in Laguardia waiting for morning. I missed my flight this afternoon by about 10 minutes. Actually, I probably could have made my flight had I not had a bag that needed checking.
Regardless of all that I’m stuck here for the night. My flight out tomorrow is at 6:00AM and I’m not about to go find an affordable hotel for what little sleep I would get.
I really did think I would make it. I left New Haven, Connecticut at 5:15PM and headed down a relatively lightly traveled I-95 for New York. I really did mean to leave at 5:00PM but there was that “just one more thing” that I needed to check and that “just one more thing” that I needed to relay to the electrician that was left there with me.
My flight was at 7:50. The last flight out from LGA to ATL on Airtran. I was assured I would have plenty of time on the start up, that the equipment would be ready to turn over to me at 9:00AM. Of course, this was after two days of the exact same sort of estimation on how long the work would take. I really needed a full four hours to do a complete check out and commissioning of the equipment.
The equipment was turned over to me at 2:45PM. It wasn’t that the electrician and millwrights were dilly dallying, it was just a bad estimate by the customer as to how long his workers would take to perform the tasks at hand. Still I was able to certify the functionality of the equipment with a couple of caveats.
But I didn’t intend to write this about the startup. I want to talk about Laguardia Airport.
This place sucks!
It’s Saturday night and almost everything had shutdown by 8:00PM. Even had things stayed open until 9:00PM or 10:00PM there is practically nothing here. This is my first time in and out of Laguardia and I’m really disappointed in this place. I was up this way a couple of weeks ago but used the airport in Hartford for that trip. I think I would rather be stuck there.
I guess this happens when a city is served by no less than three airports with airline service. I mean, even though this is a city of twelve million people there are just so many people flying at any given time. When you split the load up among Laguardia, Kennedy, and Newark those airports are not going to need to all be large airports.
I guess I need to quite my belly aching. I’m here for the night and there is no changing that now. I just wish they had more comfortable chairs in this tiny lounge area I’m in.
It’s going to be a long night.
