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Title: Houston - Bush International Airport
Post by: pissclams on April 16, 2009, 12:15:48 PM
terminal B

food choices:
McD's
Shipley Do-nuts
Pizzaria Uno
Chilis
Panchito Mexican Grill
Harlon's BBQ
Schlotzzsky's
Peet's Coffee & Tea

overall vibe: garbage

food choices: garbage

people watching: strong B to A-, a lot of hot chicks in H-Town, must be vets b/c look filthy rich

smell: smells like sweat

took interterminal tram to gate

more details to follow
Title: Re: Houston - Bush International Airport
Post by: steve dave on April 16, 2009, 12:26:35 PM
Great update.  Am flying through Houston on the 29th for the first time so this is critical info. 

 :users:
Title: Re: Houston - Bush International Airport
Post by: pissclams on April 16, 2009, 12:27:16 PM
temperature at gate area: nice clean air, my guess? 64

bathroom: clean
bathroom size: small/compact
bathroom smell: juicy fruit

more details to follow
Title: Re: Houston - Bush International Airport
Post by: Oklahoma_Cat on April 16, 2009, 12:33:30 PM
Houston - Hobby is a lot smaller, but far superior imo
Title: Re: Houston - Bush International Airport
Post by: Rick Daris on April 19, 2009, 11:36:03 AM
temperature at gate area: nice clean air, my guess? 64

bathroom: clean
bathroom size: small/compact
bathroom smell: juicy fruit

more details to follow

 :impatient:
Title: Re: Houston - Bush International Airport
Post by: hillwalking03 on April 19, 2009, 12:58:03 PM
Terminal E is where its at.  If you have time, saunter on down.
Title: Re: Houston - Bush International Airport
Post by: SkinnyBenny on April 19, 2009, 11:15:49 PM
Was in terminal B tonight for a connecting flight back to Scat 'N' Splooge.  Bought some tasty tater skins and a nutrageous from a Hudson booksellers.  Overpriced of course, but still  :love:  :lick:
Title: Re: Houston - Bush International Airport
Post by: fatty fat fat on April 20, 2009, 12:28:03 AM
Was in terminal B tonight for a connecting flight back to Scat 'N' Splooge.  Bought some tasty tater skins and a nutrageous from a Hudson booksellers.  Overpriced of course, but still  :love:  :lick:

good stuff. thx.

piss, how would yo rank houston compared to the "biggies" ? let's say i put a gun to your head, and made you pick between..umm...phoenix and houston. who gets the nod?


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Houston - Hobby is a lot smaller, but far superior imo

smaller is never better w/airports.
Title: Re: Houston - Bush International Airport
Post by: pissclams on April 20, 2009, 01:53:30 AM
Was in terminal B tonight for a connecting flight back to Scat 'N' Splooge.  Bought some tasty tater skins and a nutrageous from a Hudson booksellers.  Overpriced of course, but still  :love:  :lick:

good stuff. thx.

piss, how would yo rank houston compared to the "biggies" ? let's say i put a gun to your head, and made you pick between..umm...phoenix and houston. who gets the nod?


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Houston - Hobby is a lot smaller, but far superior imo

smaller is never better w/airports.
never been to Sky Harbor but would rank it far below other bigs like DFW
Title: Re: Houston - Bush International Airport
Post by: cas on April 20, 2009, 08:49:08 AM
must be vets b/c look filthy rich

wouldn't surprise me.
Title: Re: Houston - Bush International Airport
Post by: pissclams on April 20, 2009, 11:09:23 AM
Was in terminal B tonight for a connecting flight back to Scat 'N' Splooge.  Bought some tasty tater skins and a nutrageous from a Hudson booksellers.  Overpriced of course, but still  :love:  :lick:
overall thoughts on B?  any discrepancies between our two experiences?   
Title: Re: Houston - Bush International Airport
Post by: hillwalking03 on April 20, 2009, 02:15:51 PM
I've spent too much time at IAH.  When Hurricane Rita was bearing down on Houston, I flew in on my way to Pensacola, when my flight out was canceled.  I waited in line for 5 hours to talk to a gate agent.  The airport was packed, and they were shutting it down at midnight.

I stood in terminal C trying to get out of Houston.  Finally, I got the last seat on a flight to Denver.  My only other non-international option was Anchorage.  As I waited for my plane, I stood on the bridge in C and could see a line of people thousands deep trying to get in.  CNN was broadcasting live below, it was nuts. Those agents for Continental earned their money that day.  I still have never been in a panic scene like IAH was that day.
Title: Re: Houston - Bush International Airport
Post by: steve dave on April 20, 2009, 02:38:07 PM
I've spent too much time at IAH.  When Hurricane Rita was bearing down on Houston, I flew in on my way to Pensacola, when my flight out was canceled.  I waited in line for 5 hours to talk to a gate agent.  The airport was packed, and they were shutting it down at midnight.

I stood in terminal C trying to get out of Houston.  Finally, I got the last seat on a flight to Denver.  My only other non-international option was Anchorage.  As I waited for my plane, I stood on the bridge in C and could see a line of people thousands deep trying to get in.  CNN was broadcasting live below, it was nuts. Those agents for Continental earned their money that day.  I still have never been in a panic scene like IAH was that day.

Man, that's a good story.  I would have eaten a whole bottle of xanax during that business. 
Title: Re: Houston - Bush International Airport
Post by: EllToPay on April 20, 2009, 02:48:36 PM
Is there a worse airport to have a delay at than Miami International?
Title: Re: Houston - Bush International Airport
Post by: steve dave on April 20, 2009, 02:54:20 PM
Is there a worse airport to have a delay at than Miami International?

Yes, Reagan in DC
Title: Re: Houston - Bush International Airport
Post by: hillwalking03 on April 20, 2009, 02:55:53 PM
Is there a worse airport to have a delay at than Miami International?

Yes, Reagan in DC

+1
Title: Re: Houston - Bush International Airport
Post by: pissclams on April 20, 2009, 02:56:03 PM
I've spent too much time at IAH.  When Hurricane Rita was bearing down on Houston, I flew in on my way to Pensacola, when my flight out was canceled.  I waited in line for 5 hours to talk to a gate agent.  The airport was packed, and they were shutting it down at midnight.

I stood in terminal C trying to get out of Houston.  Finally, I got the last seat on a flight to Denver.  My only other non-international option was Anchorage.  As I waited for my plane, I stood on the bridge in C and could see a line of people thousands deep trying to get in.  CNN was broadcasting live below, it was nuts. Those agents for Continental earned their money that day.  I still have never been in a panic scene like IAH was that day.

Man, that's a good story.  I would have eaten a whole bottle of xanax during that business. 
indeed, a pretty cool perspective of the tragedy and one that you'll remember for the rest of your life.


so i really love airports but hate flying, kinda a puss when it comes to that.  this mexico trip was my first xanax related flying experience.  was excellent, almost like i love flying now.
Title: Re: Houston - Bush International Airport
Post by: EllToPay on April 20, 2009, 03:12:40 PM
so i really love airports but hate flying, kinda a puss when it comes to that.  this mexico trip was my first xanax related flying experience.  was excellent, almost like i love flying now.

Know what you mean, brah.

I've flown hundreds of times, but sometimes my my mind gets the best of me. The smallest hiccup or bump in the air makes my heart stop.  :ohno:
Title: Re: Houston - Bush International Airport
Post by: SkinnyBenny on April 20, 2009, 03:49:31 PM
Love flying but hate airports, fwiw. 

Pretty much surrendering your own free will to a guy with a Dewalt wand thing is just too  :blindfold: for me.
Title: Re: Houston - Bush International Airport
Post by: Rick Daris on April 20, 2009, 03:51:47 PM
so i really love airports but hate flying, kinda a puss when it comes to that.  this mexico trip was my first xanax related flying experience.  was excellent, almost like i love flying now.

Know what you mean, brah.

I've flown hundreds of times, but sometimes my my mind gets the best of me. The smallest hiccup or bump in the air makes my heart stop.  :ohno:

used to love flying until a plane i was on started to smell like smoke twenty minutes after we got in the air and had to turn around and land at the same airport we took off from. our plane was greeted on the runway by multiple fire trucks, etc. thought we were going to die.  :'(
Title: Re: Houston - Bush International Airport
Post by: pissclams on April 20, 2009, 10:15:00 PM
forgotten update- flew back from DFW w/ ku baseball team.  we got into MCI a little after midnight last night.  imagine having to wait for, then load up your luggage into some retired school bus from the 1940's AND THEN slug back to Lawrence? 

who likes to go to bed at 4 am and get up for class the next day, lew perkins?     

flew into MCI from DFW on american airlines fwiw.   :lol:
Title: Re: Houston - Bush International Airport
Post by: billyzabka on April 20, 2009, 10:22:45 PM
Is there a worse airport to have a delay at than Miami International?

Yes, Reagan in DC

two stops south on the yellow line to Old Town  :love:
Title: Re: Houston - Bush International Airport
Post by: SkinnyBenny on April 20, 2009, 10:23:03 PM

used to love flying until a plane i was on started to smell like smoke twenty minutes after we got in the air and had to turn around and land at the same airport we took off from. our plane was greeted on the runway by multiple fire trucks, etc. thought we were going to die.  :'(

 :ku:
Title: Re: Houston - Bush International Airport
Post by: fatty fat fat on April 20, 2009, 10:24:30 PM
has n e 1 been to dulles? how are these things?

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Mobile_lounge_at_Dulles_Airport.jpg)


lol's. how humiliting. how mci'esque.
Title: Re: Houston - Bush International Airport
Post by: LimestoneOutcropping on April 20, 2009, 10:40:52 PM
has n e 1 been to dulles? how are these things?

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Mobile_lounge_at_Dulles_Airport.jpg)


lol's. how humiliting. how mci'esque.


Took them March 14th and then again on the 22nd.  They are very weird.   Like those huge machines they drive in the Arctic so polar bears wont attack you.  They go to Terminal B iirc.
Title: Re: Houston - Bush International Airport
Post by: rundown87 on April 20, 2009, 10:43:24 PM
has n e 1 been to dulles? how are these things?

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Mobile_lounge_at_Dulles_Airport.jpg)


lol's. how humiliting. how mci'esque.


Took them March 14th and then again on the 22nd.  They are very weird.   Like those huge machines they drive in the Arctic so polar bears wont attack you.  They go to Terminal B iirc.

I took it march 7th, Kind of cool, they drive in forward, then the driver goes to the other side of the thing and drives it out forward.  Really the only cool thing about it.  Saves time at least. . .
Title: Re: Houston - Bush International Airport
Post by: SkinnyBenny on April 21, 2009, 12:20:51 AM
Those things look weird iirc.