JFK

I've got a lot of photos from my break in America... Most of which aren't really relevant to this blog, but I will share some of them. Here's a pair from my flight home. For flights between Milan and Boston, there's always a stop. Alitalia used to have a direct, but it was cut a year or two when they rebalanced their hubs. Basically, they used to have two hubs, Milan and Rome, and they've cut it down to just Rome as the real hub. Bummer for the Milanese.

The choices for single stops tend to be New York JFK, Heathrow, Madrid, and Frankfurt, in the rough order they seem to fall in pricing and frequency. Lately it's been all JFK for me. Which is actually pretty OK, as the transatlantic segments are typically the red-eyes, and connecting in Europe usually means arriving at noon or 2pm instead of my (currently) favored early arrival. (I woke up decently today and think I will have jet lag completely shaken tomorrow. My patented system is working!) JFK is hilarious. If you are flying on the commuter jets between Boston and New York, then you often have to do the outdoor boarding. This Delta connection had what looked like a human-sized hamster habitrail connecting five or six tiny planes to one gate.



Also, the Delta terminal has pigeons! I have seen small birds in other airports, like sparrows... This is the first time I have seen pigeons. And these pigeons are actually very casual. They just walk around, they rarely fly!



Of course, the American Airlines terminal is less decrepit. And the JetBlue terminal is practically slick!