Over the weekend, I got a chance to party with one of my shippers, VIP Transport. A fun time was had by all at the Fox Sports Grill as VIP Transport celebrated their Silver Anniversary.
They flew me down with “My Wife” (or was it?), rented us a car, put us up in a hotel, and had a big party, just for me. The weekend was pretty exciting, starting with Oakland International Airport.
We were flew out of Oakland on Southwest Airlines, who has the entire second terminal. Security through Terminal 2 usually takes 30 to 60 minutes. We zipped on over to Terminal 1 and walked through security. Sure, we had to wait for the family ahead of us to take the shoes off their kids, but we pretty much walked through security. Sweet! Then we had to walk all the way around the terminal to the last gate in Terminal 2. Under Southwest’s new open seating/organized preboarding system, we got to sit in the third row, which was obviously First Class seating! Lucky for me, Bob Uecker wasn’t on the plane.
Our arrival to John Wayne Airport was a shock for me. The last time I was there, it was just a big parking lot, a shack, and a ladder to climb into the airplanes. If I remember correctly, you even had to load your own luggage on the baggage cart. So we got off the plane and walked down to the baggage claim area. A sign on “baggage claim device 1″ had our flight. Remember when they used to be a carousel? I guess some dumb ass rode on one and got hurt. Now, it is a “device.” Anyway, the baggage claim stopped. The bags were delivered to “Baggage Claim Device 2.” So by the time we got over there, the only bags on the “device” were ours, so we collected them and walked over to the car rental window.
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