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Travel Thoughts
Jan. 22nd, 2019 07:46 amOver the long weekend, I flew to Honduras and back. Boy are my arms tired! [Yes, I plan on keeping the day job.) The purpose of the visit was to investigate sites for charity work, specifically building schools. I'll have more details on that portion of the trip later, but since I got back home at 9:30 PM, not today. Today I'll have some thoughts on travel.
Drink Carts
I normally fly Southwest. They serve snacks, pop and simple alcoholic beverages in-flight. For a variety of reasons, on this trip I flew Delta. Both flights, including the international leg, had a very similar menu.
On Southwest, the process of getting a drink is that the flight attendant comes, takes your order, and comes back with a tray of drinks. Snacks are distributed via them walking down the aisle with a wicker basket. There is no drink cart. On Delta, they push the damn drink cart down the aisle. Why? Southwest's system is much quicker and if you're not actually feeding people just as effective.
Getting There
For purposes of the flight, my final destination was San Pedro Sula, Honduras's second-largest city and the economic capital thereof. However, given that Honduras is the second-poorest country in this hemisphere, that's not saying a lot. They have an airport, but for commercial aviation the city is the end of the line and for most airlines can only support a single flight a day. So to get there, one flies out of a US city in the late morning.
The plane arrives in the early afternoon and is fairly quickly turned around and sent back to home base. It means that the tiny airport (eight "gates" all within 200 feet of each other and sharing a single waiting room) is busy as hell from around 11 AM to 3 PM and then goes to sleep. It also means one spends an entire day in the air getting to or from.
Tomorrow (hopefully) pictures and more details.
Drink Carts
I normally fly Southwest. They serve snacks, pop and simple alcoholic beverages in-flight. For a variety of reasons, on this trip I flew Delta. Both flights, including the international leg, had a very similar menu.
On Southwest, the process of getting a drink is that the flight attendant comes, takes your order, and comes back with a tray of drinks. Snacks are distributed via them walking down the aisle with a wicker basket. There is no drink cart. On Delta, they push the damn drink cart down the aisle. Why? Southwest's system is much quicker and if you're not actually feeding people just as effective.
Getting There
For purposes of the flight, my final destination was San Pedro Sula, Honduras's second-largest city and the economic capital thereof. However, given that Honduras is the second-poorest country in this hemisphere, that's not saying a lot. They have an airport, but for commercial aviation the city is the end of the line and for most airlines can only support a single flight a day. So to get there, one flies out of a US city in the late morning.
The plane arrives in the early afternoon and is fairly quickly turned around and sent back to home base. It means that the tiny airport (eight "gates" all within 200 feet of each other and sharing a single waiting room) is busy as hell from around 11 AM to 3 PM and then goes to sleep. It also means one spends an entire day in the air getting to or from.
Tomorrow (hopefully) pictures and more details.
