Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Flight tracking

We learned something new last night. Son Isaac was returning from St. Thomas and Jane got on the airport website and you can actually track where the flight is at in progress (like this one taking place right now from FW to Detroit). She tracked his flight from St. Thomas to Atlanta - where he had no problems. But then they were stuck on the ground for awhile in Atlanta before being able to start back to Fort Wayne. They ended up being about an hour late, but since we could see in real time where the plane was (and we could see the reason for the delay - weather), we were almost able to see the entire Spurs/Hornets game before heading to the airport. Of course, if the bypass didn't cut our road off it would only take us 5 minutes to get there. Instead it's like a whopping 15 minutes.

I don't know why, but I like hanging out in airports. Maybe someday I could get a job there. I think that would be interesting.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I really really enjoy hanging out in airports too. I thought I was a loner in this area. It's comforting to know that I'm not the only one.

Airports are my favorite part of taking a trip and I'm a bit disappointed that our trip to Texas doesn't involve a two hour layover somewhere.

MR said...

Wow... I've been using that for about 7 years now. Although it's gotten much better in recent years, adding the weather and updating the graphics... it was kind of "plane" before. BAHhahahahaha!!!

dan said...

Carrie and I are just a couple of "plane" people. :)