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We should have you at the gate in just under two hours–two and a half if we get pulled over.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3124/
Yeah, I will need an explanation on this.
Do they plan to taxi all the way to the destination? (Are those bridges clearance charts about height clearances for trucks on the kinds of bridge that passes over a road?)
That’s how I understand it. Return to bus.
They might be referencing this American Airlines “flight” that is actually a bus.
https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/travel/american-airlines-bus-service-landline-guide
Yeah, drive the plane on the ground since the storm makes it hard to fly!
11-foot-8! 11-foot-8!
plane arrives at its gate without the top two feet of its tail fin
Yes and yes.
I got thrown for a loop by the word bridge too. It having multiple meanings made me wonder if there’s a bridge in flying parlance that meant something else. Clearance is also very unspecific.
Haha, this is just about the Charlotte airport…
There really is an xkcd for everything.
They joke, but… https://www.aa.com/i18n/travel-info/experience/landline.jsp
A bus that boards at a gate and drives to another airport and drops off at a gate…
There was a video of someone deliberately taking these lines and included someone a bit shocked that the ‘flight’ they booked was just a bus…
