Leaving New York
Jun. 14th, 2021 08:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerJFK Terminal 4 - Monday, 14 Jun 2021, 11:15am.
It's Planes, Trains, and Automobiles again today. We've driven back down to New York City and taken the tram to JFK Airport to fly out to Bangor, Maine. So far, so good. Of course that's mainly because we've planned ample time in our schedule.
We allowed over an hour for the drive. We did hit a bit of traffic on the way despite it being after rush hour. We still arrived early. Though the slow tram partly made up for that we still reached the airport almost 2 hours before departure.
"Great," we thought, "We'll have time for brunch." Well, we did have time but what we did not have were choices. Half or more of the restaurants in the airport terminal are closed. Despite travel returning toward pre-pandemic levels (at least for leisure travel) restaurants are not opening back up yet. Maybe they're waiting for surer recovery, maybe they're having trouble hiring people back in this weird labor market.
We're at our gate now, cooling our heels while waiting for boarding to start in about 25 minutes. The flight to Bangor will take 1 hour 45 minutes. We've got first class seats again, another coup like our SFO-JFK flight where we scored premium tickets cheaply by booking a few months ago, ahead of the post-pandemic rush. Coach class tickets now cost more than what we paid for first/business several months ago, and first/business tickets sell for 2-4x their previous prices. Yay, getting back to normal. 🙄
It's Planes, Trains, and Automobiles again today. We've driven back down to New York City and taken the tram to JFK Airport to fly out to Bangor, Maine. So far, so good. Of course that's mainly because we've planned ample time in our schedule.
We allowed over an hour for the drive. We did hit a bit of traffic on the way despite it being after rush hour. We still arrived early. Though the slow tram partly made up for that we still reached the airport almost 2 hours before departure.
"Great," we thought, "We'll have time for brunch." Well, we did have time but what we did not have were choices. Half or more of the restaurants in the airport terminal are closed. Despite travel returning toward pre-pandemic levels (at least for leisure travel) restaurants are not opening back up yet. Maybe they're waiting for surer recovery, maybe they're having trouble hiring people back in this weird labor market.
We're at our gate now, cooling our heels while waiting for boarding to start in about 25 minutes. The flight to Bangor will take 1 hour 45 minutes. We've got first class seats again, another coup like our SFO-JFK flight where we scored premium tickets cheaply by booking a few months ago, ahead of the post-pandemic rush. Coach class tickets now cost more than what we paid for first/business several months ago, and first/business tickets sell for 2-4x their previous prices. Yay, getting back to normal. 🙄
