If you pay peanuts...

[davywavy]

...you get American Airlines.


Well, I'm here in sunny America. Too tired to write much except...


I GOT STOPPED BY BLOODY CUSTOMS. TWICE!!!

Once leaving the UK, and once on getting to the US. Believe me, the last thing that you want to hear a US customs official say to you is: "We'll be retaining your passport. Please join us in the back room."

And that is all I'm saying on the matter.

Comments

[quisalan.livejournal.com]

You should ask Sally about them.

She ended up getting to Quito over a day late and going via Guyaquil, and recent discovered she has an 8 hour stop over on the way back from Chile and is being flown to a different airport to the one she expected to be dropped at...

[riksowden.livejournal.com]

Have to say...i've not ever had problems with them, they've been fairly good, not taken me by strange routes and done me okay. They even put on London Pride for me the last time (okay, its not wonderful, but it was a really pleasent suprise...).

Maybe they just don't like lovely ladies, and i think we can include Dave in that one :D

[jonnyargles.livejournal.com]

No, the last thing you want to hear them say is "Grab those ankles, Limey, we're going to make you squeal like a pig- in the interests of National Security. Oh, and we'll play Celine Dion in the background to make you relax."

What can i say

[isalani.livejournal.com]

Either the bribe worked.

or

Its you Dave, it was bound to happen :)

[riksowden.livejournal.com]

Well, it sounds about right for you really...i mean, you do look like a pinko-commie-scumbag, someone whose there to cause dissent and trouble, you know the sort, the over-educated intellectual...

*grin*

That was a fiver well spent.

[tzel.livejournal.com]

But you *always* get searched by customs. I don't know, maybe you look like a spy or a smuggler or something.

[darkzen.livejournal.com]

I too am always stopped by airport security, a minimum of 3 times every time I fly. So I feel for you man.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Bah, shame you aren't here.

[darkzen.livejournal.com]

Would love to have. If only to see friends from across the pond. But I chose wedding. Better choice in my opinion.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Oh, I wasn't criticising your choice at all :)

I'm having to do great evil by myself as it is.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

On a sad, game related note; fancy a trip to Egypt?

Customs? or Immigration?

[applez.livejournal.com]

They are different sorts, really.

The first for smugglers, the second for false identification.

I'm afraid I can only rate you by your LJ postings, but that 'schnaftiness' quotient alone is sure to get you pulled off by Immigration.

Well, with luck, this sort of thing will put more people off from traveling to the US, crippling the country. After all, we need smugglers and disguised individuals to keep the nation going! ;-)

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AA question

[applez.livejournal.com]

and no, I don't infer that you're an alchoholic - well, no more than any Briton 'on holiday.' ;-)

So how did you rate the airline's food? Service? Space?

Re: AA question

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Food: Sucks.
Service: Tolerable
Space: Acceptable, but I'd've traded 2" legroom for better of the above.

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

It's only because I wasn't there with you. They'd have gone for me instead, no question, if I had been. I'm a bit like a chastity belt, but for immigration protection.

[sue-b.livejournal.com]

You haven't been anywhere dodgy recently like cuba???

because the americans get quite squiffy about people who have been to countries who that htey aren't not friends with