Hi all from Hilo!
After nearly missing the interisland flight to Hilo, I am safe and sound in the hostel (Arnott’s lodge) in Hilo, Hawaii. As I wrote in the pervious mail, our flight to Honolulu was delayed. It finally landed only 50 minutes before our next flight was scheduled to depart. During that time we had to claim our bags, walk 400m with the bags to a different terminal, check in for the flight at least 25 minutes before departure, pass security and board the flight. So, by 19:25 (35 minutes to departure) my bag arrived, and I ran all the way to the other terminal in the other edge of the aiport. I checked in about 2 minutes late and immediately passed security including taking off
shoes, and taking laptop out) and ran towards the gate and on to the tarmac to board the plane (no jetways in the commuter air terminal).
Itai’s bag arrived later, and he boarded the plane only 5 minutes before scheduled departure. If I had not notified the ground crew that he’s coming they would have left without him. It seems that Amazing Race-style connections do happen in real life.
Hilo International Airport commuter terminal looks like a wooden shack. Baggage belts are permanenetly labeled with airline names, and the car rental station is another wooden shack.
Our accomodation for tonight, Arnott’s lodge, is a simple yet clean and comfortable hostel. We’ll probably stay here for two more nights, and then back to Honolulu.
If you want to know why we had to take a flight inside Hawaii, look closer at this map:
May 11th, 2007 at 11:33
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epsalon |
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Hi All!
Update from the road to Hawaii - San Francisco Int’l Aiport. Two flights down, two to go. For those who don’t know I’m flying to Hawaii for 12 days for a conference and trip. Today I’m flying TLV-AMS-SFO-HNL-ITO.
The flight from Tel Aviv to Amsterdam was on an old 737 with no entertainment system, but only lasted 5 short hours. I spent most of the flight sleeping and chatting with Itai who came with me.
The second flight (Amsterdam-San Francisco) was on a nice Boeing 747-400 (for those who don’t know, that’s a jumbo jet). I had one of the best seats on the flight, in the front of Economy class, with lots of room and I spent some time of the 11 hour flight sleeping on the floor. Other time was spent checking some papers and eating the lots of food that was available. The cabin crew was very nice and the flight was much easier than I thought it would be.
Note that this flight departed on 11:00 and landed on 13:30 (local time), which means it was continuoulsy noon onboard the flight for 11 hours! I’m not sure if I was in an airplane or a time machine…
I had a tight connection to my next flight, so I rushed off the plane. I was the first person off the flight (even before Business Class) and rushed to passport control, which ran smoothly with no lines whatsover. The only problem was my connecting flight to Honolulu was is more than an hour
delayed. Now I am expecting a tight connection at Honolulu. Therefore, I am expecting to actually send this mail (and additional updates) only when I reach our accomodations at Hilo.
BTW: All timestamps are Hawaiian time, which is 13 hours earlier than Israel time.
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May 11th, 2007 at 10:47
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epsalon |
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