Those who travel by plane so many things have in common. For a while, even I was one of them was not a business traveler, but low cost, but so much so that once in Orio al Serio, climbing sull'ennesimo Ryanair to Charleroi on Friday evening, the steward asked me if I was upset because the Friday before I had seen on board.
When you take the plane with more frequency of the bus (and the bus that it is just to get to the airport) certain behaviors become natural.
DEPARTURE FROM HOME / OFFICE
know exactly how long it takes to arrive in the embarkation base that day and hour of the week, then once set the start time did not look at shifting the clock in your home / office until the 'airport. Now the transfer elevator - steps - car / bus / metro could do it with closed eyes you know exactly where the escalator in the subway that runs to go up with the trolley up to the surface, without ending up more stairs (If you get off at Milan central and left whole), which do gymkhana between perennial work in progress, and parking strips to arrive as quickly as possible to the shuttle to the airport (Milan also know already that of the two companies makes a stop at Cascina increasing the Hump route of 15 minutes, and then always choose the other, although some 15 minutes later). When you get on the bus looking for the aisle seat in front of the 'rear exit in order to be the first to fall without the crowds that builds up between the front passenger. Close to the airport if you drive you know what is the exit to the parking lot where there is less queue to enter (usually the last and you head straight to the basement or the lowest level in more elevated high, depending on the building: there is always room, while novices lose half an hour to spin up and down the first entrance floor) if you raise the bus finally his eyes from the free newspaper Metro just two minutes before arriving at their destination, to position yourself in front of the back door. And you know you are missing two minutes upon arrival because you have your signal in the surrounding landscape that you've seen a thousand times. (For me, arriving at Orio, teaches Dear Coffee: even send sms to my saying that I arrived at the airport by simply writing "Dear Coffee, you phone before boarding." SMS is saved in drafts, so I will not have to write every time.)
AIRPORT
You have arrived at the airport with just counted the minutes to find the door to check in (if you have to leave your luggage in the hold: if the trip is usually 1-3 days in all compact wheeled carry-on baggage but not just because it's free so do not waste time because the recovery of the luggage on arrival), queuing for security checks at passport control when flying the Extra Schengen reach the boarding gate when the procedure is started so as not to stand up to hang waiting for the open board and found myself doing more in a queue to get on the shuttle to the plane.
Along this route, try to dodge, recognizing usually bewildered by the attitude, the case of monumental proportions and the fact that holding the ticket in hand, rather than in your pocket, those who do not travel often or who do not travel at all, because they slow your efficient procedure at a rapid pace, neither slow nor breathless.
Upon check in the baggage hold are those who argue with the hostess to get her to turn a blind eye to the fact that the limit for baggage is 20 kg while they have 12 in excess. Normally begin falling from the clouds, saying they did not know it was so, although it was written in large letters in the process of purchasing the ticket, then try the economic discourse (eh but are 5 € per kg, more than the ticket itself, to please try to understand me) then try to avoid the pity of the poor but it must apply the regulation. Pay at the end, convinced that they have been wronged and covering insults the poor and the company: if they are frowning without even realizing all the insults of those who were in the queue behind them for at least 15 minutes longer than expected.
the security controls that you travel so much you have already placed the tape on hand luggage in order to recover after the tray control with computer and camera to be put in hand luggage, the tray with the jacket / coat the tray with the objects to be repositioned in the pockets of the jacket / coat, and finally the shoes (not required at all airports but in the case that sound, better levarle directly before): Not only that, but before you leave home already dressed for the trip by putting the majority pieces of metal (belts, jewelry, cufflinks, watches, glasses) in your hand luggage, so you do not have to waste time to remove them and put them back on.
Those who do not travel often or who do not travel at all seem to be immune to the bombardment of information about items not accepted for carriage (in addition to weapons and flammable, Dublin Airport is specifically prohibited the transport of slingshots), the restrictions for liquids and the operation undressing (signs in 18 languages, 50-inch display that repeat endlessly the same images, ground staff who constantly repeats his voice from newsboy: put in the trays coats, metal objects, mobile phones, laptops etc). Surely arrived at the metal detectors will play three times (oh no I knew I had to remove the pen from his pocket, oh I knew I had to remove his belt, oh I knew I had to empty the pockets of the coins) and then issues with the guards about the fact that the bottle of coca cola in your hand luggage is not a liquid but is coca cola and at the end rather than throw the slurp all in one go at the risk of choking of bubbles across.
After any queue at passport control if your time calculation is correct (and correct) and the plane is late (but that does not depend on you) when you reach the boarding gate already this is in progress, so do not waste time in line to board the plane. If you happen
waiting time (ie, the plane is late), go to work with the blackberry that you access in the lounge as the first holder of the paper silver, then gold and finally that of the platinum frequent flyer programs. There you will find other frequent flyers as efficiently intent to work with the blackberry, waiting for their plane late. If it comes to travel with low costs, you go to buy natural and half the sandwich at the bar to take you from behind rather than buying the M & M's and minilattina of SevenUp on board. During
boarding flights if you travel without seat assignments, it's no elbowing to get on the shuttle bus to the plane: the facts of who goes last, remaining close to the doors of the shuttle, leaving first and rooms first on the plane, calmly choose the place, usually on the wing where there are emergency exits because there is more legroom.
PLANE
you in the seat in coincidence systems of emergency exits to be comfortable with your legs, or, alternatively, in the first row, so exit immediately on arrival. In both cases systems all your things and your jacket / coat in the hat because you know, it's still written on the stickers placed at the seats that are not allowed to take anything into the output file. Those who do not travel often or who do not travel at all look at the written and crossed out the figure of the case and possibly pretend to like anything with the weight of baggage and restrictions on liquids, except much offended when the crew goes to ask to withdraw her purse or coat in the hat because, guess what ', those places are in coincidence of the outputs security and not allowed to interfere with any emergency fugadi objects. By air the flight attendant handed annoyed their things and muttering that will not fly with that airline ever again, even if inside they know that no other airline was flying that day on that route for 30 €.
you who travel frequently know instantly if your neighbor is one who is afraid to fly and need to talk logorrheic, and unless you did not really want to socialize, you sink into sleep immediately or shelters in a tome of 900 pages carefully chosen to intimidate any approach to conversation, even better if written in a language unknown to most (Polish a Geneva - Paris or on a Catalan bergamo - Dublin). But if you travel in business class next to someone who probably already turned on the laptop to work off line and you only have to turn even your knowing he could work or stay quiet for the duration of the flight.
Before take-off not watching the ballet demonstration of the security measures of the flight attendants but look a professional silent while you read. Those who do not travel often or do not travel at all nervous about the concept of feedback Unlikely event. (If you are in Italy, on a flight and at least one of the flight attendants is nice, apart from the usual ollellè ollallà stadium.). Landing do not applaud the fact ever since to bring you safely to the ground is not a favor but it is the job of captain on board.
ARRIVAL
Once you get your membership to the category of those who travel frequently compared to all other passengers it is now obvious: we've already been in that airport and you know the shortest route to passport control with deviation bathroom , before any baggage. If you do not have the phone company, pull out the sim prepaid portfolio for that country (or if you have not buy it at the first kiosk / phone shop in the airport, where he will also buy a refill for your Sim, in so do not spend not even one minute of roaming), send a text message to warn that you get and then you start just sent to the exit where you wait for someone you care about or someone holding a sign with your name or company logo (how many mr Vodafone mr and Accenture are in the world?) or just another bus / taxi / subway train. CONCLUSIONS
What is the difference between those who do not travel often and those who do not travel at all? What if the first one to recognize those who travel much, so follow him because they also do before. So
lives who travel by air is often up in the air. But there is also someone who lives on the same trip in parallel: the wives of those who travel frequently.
the next episode:-D
0 comments:
Post a Comment