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	<title>Comments on: Don&#8217;t go to Burning Man.</title>
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		<title>By: dcoombs</title>
		<link>http://modernduck.com/2009/05/dont-go-to-burning-man/comment-page-1/#comment-540</link>
		<dc:creator>dcoombs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 19:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;And there&#039;s only 2 runways.  Not nearly enough for an airport that big.  As soon as you miss your takeoff slot, you&#039;re playing timetable roulette.  Could be waiting ten minutes, could be waiting two hours.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And there&#8217;s only 2 runways.  Not nearly enough for an airport that big.  As soon as you miss your takeoff slot, you&#8217;re playing timetable roulette.  Could be waiting ten minutes, could be waiting two hours.</p>
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		<title>By: scjody</title>
		<link>http://modernduck.com/2009/05/dont-go-to-burning-man/comment-page-1/#comment-539</link>
		<dc:creator>scjody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 23:18:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;No way.  LHR is the worst airport in the civilized world, and several 3rd world airports beat it hands down.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It&#039;s been over capacity for about 30 years with no plans to expand.  There are now 5 terminals, and you have to take buses between them, so connections take forever.  They&#039;ve set it up so you have to rescreen when changing terminals too, so forget about keeping that bottle of water you bought before your first flight.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;They have a terrible baggage system that seems to lose more bags than most, and when you do lose a bag it goes into &quot;the system&quot;, where it will emerge 5 days later if you&#039;re lucky.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most of the concourses are loud, obnoxious, crowded shopping malls with no quiet places to sit (thankfully I usually have lounge access.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The gates are weird, and you generally don&#039;t know your gate until 10 minutes before boarding starts for international.  For domestic, you can go to the gate, but there are no screens telling you if you&#039;re in the right place or even people you can talk to (the boarding desk is behind a door that they don&#039;t open until boarding starts.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WiFi is inconsistent and costly (when it exists.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Driving there requires navigating a confusing nightmare of tunnels and poorly-labeled roads (until you&#039;re actually on BAA property, you have no idea which road leads to which terminal, and even then it&#039;s sketchy.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;All in all, FAIL.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No way.  LHR is the worst airport in the civilized world, and several 3rd world airports beat it hands down.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s been over capacity for about 30 years with no plans to expand.  There are now 5 terminals, and you have to take buses between them, so connections take forever.  They&#8217;ve set it up so you have to rescreen when changing terminals too, so forget about keeping that bottle of water you bought before your first flight.</p>
<p>They have a terrible baggage system that seems to lose more bags than most, and when you do lose a bag it goes into &#8220;the system&#8221;, where it will emerge 5 days later if you&#8217;re lucky.</p>
<p>Most of the concourses are loud, obnoxious, crowded shopping malls with no quiet places to sit (thankfully I usually have lounge access.)</p>
<p>The gates are weird, and you generally don&#8217;t know your gate until 10 minutes before boarding starts for international.  For domestic, you can go to the gate, but there are no screens telling you if you&#8217;re in the right place or even people you can talk to (the boarding desk is behind a door that they don&#8217;t open until boarding starts.)</p>
<p>WiFi is inconsistent and costly (when it exists.)</p>
<p>Driving there requires navigating a confusing nightmare of tunnels and poorly-labeled roads (until you&#8217;re actually on BAA property, you have no idea which road leads to which terminal, and even then it&#8217;s sketchy.)</p>
<p>All in all, FAIL.</p>
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		<title>By: evildrgo</title>
		<link>http://modernduck.com/2009/05/dont-go-to-burning-man/comment-page-1/#comment-538</link>
		<dc:creator>evildrgo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 17:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;LHR is a good airport, just big.&lt;br /&gt;
PHL is a stupid inefficient airport that has weather phobias.  And it&#039;s Big.&lt;br /&gt;
BOS is a stupid airport, too political and bad fog.&lt;br /&gt;
YYZ is full of stupid people, too political, run by Canadians and is too big.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>LHR is a good airport, just big.<br />
PHL is a stupid inefficient airport that has weather phobias.  And it&#8217;s Big.<br />
BOS is a stupid airport, too political and bad fog.<br />
YYZ is full of stupid people, too political, run by Canadians and is too big.</p>
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		<title>By: scjody</title>
		<link>http://modernduck.com/2009/05/dont-go-to-burning-man/comment-page-1/#comment-537</link>
		<dc:creator>scjody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 03:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Worse than LHR?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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		<title>By: evildrgo</title>
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		<dc:creator>evildrgo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 03:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;THat was the flight that really buggered me last night.  Philly is the worst airport ever.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>THat was the flight that really buggered me last night.  Philly is the worst airport ever.</p>
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