Today, I flew from Burbank to San Jose (and boy, are my arms tired… rimshot).
Seriously, today I flew from “classic” Burbank airport, where you walk up the stairs to the plane, and the terminal is still the 1930s terminal, to sunny rainy San Jose. I’ve been a few years since I’ve flow into SJC, and I can’t say they have made the airport any easier. I remember SJC in the early 1990s, when you would walk out of Terminal C, turn right, and go to the small surface car rental lot. I remember after they built Terminal A, you would arrive, go to the baggage claim which had the rental counters there, and go in the garage… and pick up your car. Now you walk and walk to a rental car bus, which takes you to an off-site rental car facility, where you walk (in the rain) to your car.
The same evolution has happened at BWI. In the early 1990s, you exited your plane, crossed the main airport road, and there was your car… in a surface lot. They built a new structure… and there was your car, in the structure. Now… you walk and walk to a rental car bus… and ride for 10 minutes to an off-site facility.
They call this an improvement?
[At least my hotel is nice. I’m in the Staybridge Suites in Sunnyvale… I have two rooms, plus a kitchen, a DVD player, and hard-wired high-speed free Internet access. Woo Hoo!]
