On 11/28/2017 1:06 PM, Sarah B wrote:
I agree. The busiest days of the Thanksgiving week didn't start until the week days after; SFO was looking good when I flew in on Saturday at 2pm. I connected through LAX and it too was no busier than normal; I didn't experience any "Thanksgiving rush" delays coming into the West Coast. (I DID have to get my morning cardio in, running from terminal 6 to 7, to connect, but that was a United fault, leaving Singapore an hour late). Perhaps looking at the schedule and leaving Thursday night, Friday afternoon, or late Friday night would help you for the last meetings of the year when they're that close to Thanksgiving, moving forward, or giving yourself more time to connect in the US?
I had that exact same flight and pretty close to the same cardio workout.
One of the things I noted about this trip was the extreme cost of
flights on the return leg. In my case, it was a return leg 2-3x the
price of the outbound trip - so bad that I ended up using miles instead
- and that was buying 3-4 months in advance. For someone else, they
ended up traveling on Monday for a $5000 reduction in a business class
ticket over Thursday-Sunday prices.
I'm not sure how much of this was tied to US thanksgiving and a flood of
ex-pats coming back into the country but I'm suspicious!
Mike
/S
On Nov 27, 2017, at 3:12 PM, Ole Jacobsen <olejacobsen@xxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 27 Nov 2017, Kent Watsen wrote:
I had an awful experience travelling home from Singapore. What was
supposed to be 22-hours of travel became 40-hours. Much of this was
due to my US-based connecting airport being exceptionally busy,
related to this most-travelled holiday of the year, causing me to
miss my gate and not be able to get onto either of two standbys.
Even if the travel-congestion were not an issue, there the secondary
issue of coming home into an already short week. Most US companies
give Thursday and Friday off and many, including myself, take
Wednesday off as well (to travel to our Thanksgiving destinations).
This leads the somewhat frantic situation of trying to catch-up on
email from the week before while clearing the way for the week
ahead.
I understand that this is just an American holiday and that less
than half of the IETF are Americans but, if there is any discretion
in the matter for future meetings, I would be exceptionally happy if
the IETF made an effort to hold the 3rd-meeting of the year a week
earlier.
Thanks,
Kent
Sorry to hear that too, but looking at the actual schedule, I would
imagine you could have left Singapore as early as Saturday morning
(or very late Friday night) which would get you to at least the West
Coast by Saturday morning (local) and that *should* at least be
several days before chaos broke out in the US. I would agree that we
should avoid major holidays, but I'd say we mostly did in this
particular case. Of course, as they say, "your mileage may vary."
Ole