Jacob working at gate D 17.
Now he is at Southwest Airlines.
Uh-oh! The scale said "overweight bag."Sunday, September 7, 2008
Airport Open House
A few years back, Detroit’s airport constructed a snazzy new building to replace one of its old and obsolete terminals. Before the “McNamara Terminal” officially opened in 2002, the public was invited to an “open house” to walk around and ooh & aah at the glitzy new layout. The boys and I visited, along with Nancy and Richie. Soon afterwards, construction began on a replacement for another of our airport’s outdated terminals. On Saturday, the brand new “North Terminal” was ready for its public debut. Again, Jim, Jacob, Nancy, Richie, and I decided to attend. We arrived at the designated parking area around 1:30 p.m. There were already a lot of people there, and a looong line was forming to wait for shuttle buses that would whisk us to the new part of the airport. I barely noticed that the sun was beating down and that the line was moving excruciatingly slowly, because we were situated just east of one of DTW’s main runways, and planes were taking off almost continuously. We did, in fact, wait in that bus line for almost an hour, but I heard very few complaints because the crowd was mostly made up of aviation enthusiasts who appreciated the awesome entertainment occurring on the runway just over our shoulders. Anyway, the “open house” was fun and we gathered lots of free brochures, books, snacks, and trinkets. The new “North Terminal” is very nice, and is styled in a similar fashion to the “McNamara Terminal,” although it is a bit smaller. The high-tech features, and a myriad of stores and restaurants will, I’m sure, make it very popular with travelers. Coincidentally, the bus that we took from the parking lot over to the airport ended up being the same bus that we took back to the car after we left the “open house.” Our bus driver informed us that he is the official driver for the Plymouth Whalers hockey team, and I told him that my 19-year-old son was not with us at the airport that afternoon because he went to the 2:00 p.m. Whalers game instead. Small world.
Jacob working at gate D 17.
Now he is at Southwest Airlines.
Uh-oh! The scale said "overweight bag."
Jacob working at gate D 17. Now he is at Southwest Airlines. Uh-oh! The scale said "overweight bag."
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I was there for the 3-5 PM session. Got there at 3:15, arrived at the terminal at 4:30. There were a lot of complaints in line, but we had planes to watch and the open house organizers did send cases of bottled water out to the people waiting in line. Interestingly, I ran into a couple who arrived fifteen minutes later than I did. The orange lot was closed by the time they got there and they were sending people to US Park. They waited for five minutes for a bus. By the time I got there, there wasn't much swag left, but I did get to see those gorgeous Yankee Airforce planes take off. I think they took pity on us and keep the open house open a little later, because I didn't get back to the orange lot until 6:00 and I couldn't have been in line for more than twenty minutes. The terminal looks very nice. Easy to get around, lots of concessions, perfectly adequate size. The open house was a little less impressive. It looked like they had a good plan, but were totally unprepared for the number of guests.
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