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Hartsfield-Jackson closes smoking rooms, goes smoke-free inside airport
Passengers who want to smoke while connecting between flights in Atlanta must leave the secure concourses to get to new outdoor smoking zones, then go back through security to catch their next flight. (www.ajc.com) المزيد...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Finally. I always hated walking by those rooms. I could smell them 100' away. This will do much for indoor air quality around where those rooms where. I wonder how long it will take them to clean up everything above the ceiling tiles before they rent that space out?
We just returned (yesterday evening) from 6 weeks Vacation in 4 Asian Countries. The Airport Facilities in Asia put those in the USA to shame! One of our Party is in wheel chair. At DFW going out and coming back in USA, it too us 30 minutes+ to even FIND a wheelchair & Valet, and she wanted $20 just to push the wheel chair (we had to deal with our own Bags. And they asked what we were PAYING before even touching the wheel chair. In Narita, Japan, Singapore, Manila & Hong Kong there were wheel chair Valets at every Gate! In Manila the TOTAL COST for a wheel chair & Bags Valet $4.00 (P200) who ALSO took care of our 4 BIG Check Bags and 4 Personal Bags Gate to Taxi to Gate in and out. And in Singapore, Hong Kong & Narita we had to make the Valets take a $10.00 tip. Every Door and even going through Security and Customs in Asia, they did all the lifting of our 4- 50 pound Bags. Taxi for the 1 hour ride from Manila to our Residence in Metro Manila cost $20 (P1,000). In DFW it cost us $50 to go 4 from the Airport to Friends house to retrieve our Pickup. And he did not want to do it for that, but because we were slow with the wheel chair there were no others at the Taxi Stop at that time. And at DFW it smelled like an ASTRAY all over the "C" Gates, because of the 2 "Smoking Areas" on the Concourse. All the Asian Airports we were in, there are "NO SMOKING IN & AROUND THIS FACILITY" signs posted from even the curbs. Don't get me started about finding/using a CR (Restroom), Gate Agents or Information Counter in USA Airports! That is my 2 cents, as a Retired USA Commercial Pilot. Things have SURE GONE DOWNHILL at USA Airports, since I was Flying in the 1980's.
I don’t doubt this experience at all but keep in mind that tipping is often seen as rude in many countries. Much of the airport labor force is seen as a high class job and they are paid well (even for the wheelchair valets).
The labor force in America as I am sure you are aware is very lazy. You could say it is because they are not paid well but in the house I was raised the quality of the work governed the pay in exchange and not the other way around ... no way would I demand higher pay before I decided to provide my very best work ethic.
(Apologies for the tangent)
The labor force in America as I am sure you are aware is very lazy. You could say it is because they are not paid well but in the house I was raised the quality of the work governed the pay in exchange and not the other way around ... no way would I demand higher pay before I decided to provide my very best work ethic.
(Apologies for the tangent)
Well done ATL!
Simple solution: open "Pay for Puffs" rooms. Private enterprise to the rescuue.
The Atlanta airport has never seen a source of revenue it does not like!
The Atlanta airport has never seen a source of revenue it does not like!
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