| Fly PTI…? |
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| Written by Ed Hathaway | |
| Saturday, 22 March 2008 | |
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The other day I was on a Skybus early morning flight (5:45AM). Since I worked late the evening before, sleep was not going to be an option so I worked up to the time I had to leave for the airport. Leading up to my departure my email was being over taken by messages from Skybus. They were requiring you get to the airport at least two hours in advance of your flight because of the anticipated traffic due to spring break. Now, once I got to the airport and to my flight’s gate it was apparent that PTI did not get this memo. At the wee hours in the morning and a terminal filled with 40 plus year old ‘spring breakers’, not one of the one and only coffee shop in the gate area was opened. It was scheduled to open at 6:30AM, forty five minutes into this and several other early morning flights. With TSA restrictions being what they are, bringing coffee from the nearby gas station was neither an option nor a consideration. I half expected to be able to get my morning joe inside the gate area but this was not going to be the case. So with this blog posting, let it serve as the official ‘lost memo to PTI’. There are actual customers milling around your airport early in the morning and dare I say, late in the evening. I know this might come to you as an odd revelation but it is actually happening…there are actual ‘real’ customers roaming your once empty halls using Greensboro as a gateway (thanks in large part to Skybus) to the outside world. After conducting a prolonged study involving deep research and a little undercover investigation work, I came to the startling conclusion that these folks were breathing humans requiring a few creature comforts like, COFFEE!
Wake up PTI and smell the potential revenue. Your new airport traveler’s just mite enjoy a little sip of what you are spooning out in your promotional flyers. Oh, while you are on this fact finding mission of the missing bean, a small slice of ‘free’ WiFi would be so nice. Now go back to bed and continue dreaming that someday maybe, just maybe, more people will be using your airport instead of suing it. Editors Note: Just as Skybus was making my flights boarding announcement, a voice cheered throughout the gateway, “Mable, the coffee shop is opening, they got donuts!" (Mmmm…Donuts) I guess someone did get the memo after all.
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