Airport Records

I spent a wonderful evening in Vienna on Sunday walking around and soaking up the cafe atmosphere with my friend Susan. I have now been in four airports in as many days and feel like I should write a book reviewing airports around the world. I was in Prague, Vienna, Dubai and Bangkok in the last four days. The airport in Dubai is amazing and all the more amazing because I was there from 11 PM to 3 AM, and I thought there would be no one there and everything would be closed. It was as busy at that time as most other airports are during the day, and all the shops were open, including a huge duty free section. My travel agent told me that Emirates Air (the airline I flew to Bangkok through Dubai) is the best airline in the world and now I understand why. Their economy class is like most other airlines' business class -- a range of movies, decent leg room, excellent food. I have broken my record for the most airports in the least amount of days; however, it doesn't rival the most cumulative amount of time I've spent in one airport. The honor for that goes to Schipol airport in Amsterdam, which I knew well after many long layovers flying to/from Kiev. Even those layovers don't rival the most amount of time I've spent waiting for a flight, which was 2 days in Honduras. Okay, I didn't spend the whole two days at the airport, but I spent eight hours one day and six hours the next waiting for one flight to the Bay Islands. The airline in that case was TACA, which we affectionately called Take A Chance Airlines. It's the airline I'm flying to and from Lima, so that could be interesting . . .