The Clog from OzUgly Airports & Uncomfortable Seats
August 3rd 2006 05:37
"It's no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an airport' appear." - Douglas Noel Adams
That’s right. Airports are ugly places – and not just on the outside. They continuously deal with overly fatigued people with messy hair and disoriented gazes. It’s not much fun having to wait on an uncomfortable airport chair in Singapore for 4 hours for a connecting flight to Paris at what your body feels is 4am, not being able to sleep for fear of missing the next flight.
Don’t get me wrong, travelling is a great experience but the long haul flights to get you to that first place are the worst. And it’s not just how you feel getting off the plane; it’s the actual flight itself. The average tourist can’t afford anything more than the basic $2,000 flight to Heathrow which will get you an almost totally upright chair with very minimal leg room. Sitting down on one of these suckers for 13 hours straight is not exactly pleasurable.
But I do feel sorry for airports. All the exciting destinations like Rome, New York and Tokyo hog all the credit but it’s the airports who organise passengers to get them to the right place and potentially discourage terrorism.
Although the interchanges to the many countries of the world are basically a crap place to spend your afternoon/evening/morning?, I think they do the best job they can at what’s most important - getting us to the right place, safely.
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That’s right. Airports are ugly places – and not just on the outside. They continuously deal with overly fatigued people with messy hair and disoriented gazes. It’s not much fun having to wait on an uncomfortable airport chair in Singapore for 4 hours for a connecting flight to Paris at what your body feels is 4am, not being able to sleep for fear of missing the next flight.
It's good NZ is pretty close. This flight shouldn't take too long...
But I do feel sorry for airports. All the exciting destinations like Rome, New York and Tokyo hog all the credit but it’s the airports who organise passengers to get them to the right place and potentially discourage terrorism.
Although the interchanges to the many countries of the world are basically a crap place to spend your afternoon/evening/morning?, I think they do the best job they can at what’s most important - getting us to the right place, safely.
Image under the GNU Free Documentation License
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