bedlamsbard | decisions, decisions (water still dripping from ceiling, paper still in progress) (Reply)

I have to make my airport shuttle reservation for Sunday morning, but I can't decide when to go -- my flight is at 7:20, and the two times that the shuttle leaves before then are 4:00 and 5:30. (Yes, am.) They say it's an hour to the airport -- but I've never actually had it take an hour to the airport, almost every time I've been on the shuttle Tulane's the last stop, except once. And even if I take the 5:30 and I get to the airport at 6:30, I don't have to check bags and my boarding pass will be pre-printed, so I just have to go through security and then walk in -- it's a really small terminal. But then again, security might take a while: but it's six in the freaking morning on a Sunday, y'all, how many people are traveling then? But it's new security. I talked to people who traveled over Thanksgiving break, and results are mixed on whether or not they had to go through the new security measures (unsurprisingly: the girls did, the guys did not; I know not to wear a bra with an underwire but I am still gloomy at the prospect), and MSY is supposed to be a little lax with them. Also, six in the morning: even if it's new security, how long can it take?

My travel time is already twelve hours (about six hours flying, three on various shuttles, three waiting around at airports); it would be really nice not to make it fifteen. (Factor in wait time at the airport...) It would also be really nice not to have to get up at four in the morning. Or 3:30, I guess. Oh my gods.

One of my roommates says that when she's taken the shuttle, Tulane's always been the first stop, not the last, so it does take the full hour to get there. But I've never had that happen...

Oh look. Continental's not feeding their passengers anymore.