I'm beginning to enjoy domestic air travel in the United States. I'm not at all irritated that I will spend half my day flying around from Austin to my next destination - Virginia. I get to write or sleep, I get drinks like the airlines of the past and actually get to appreciate checking in my carry-on luggage for free. I've taken 5 domestic US flights so far in the past 2 weeks from direct flights to connecting flights, there's SFO-LAS (Las Vegas), LAS-SFO (San Francisco), SFO-AUS (Austin), AUS-ATL (Atlanta) and ATL-ROA (Roanoke). I must say that after all of that, I've gotten quite the hang of how to check-in, pass through the TSA (and the things I must bring out), checking in my carry-on and enjoying my flight. They definitely do things a lot differently here from what I'm used to in Manila and there are stuff that I need to remember to make all these as smooth as possible. I will fly a few more times in the next 2 weeks so I will update this with some more from ROA-ORD (Chicago), ORD-SFO (San Francisco) and SFO-SNA (Los Angeles). I guess what I'm saying is I wish I could have known some of these before I booked the tickets, especially those with connecting flights and short windows. I can't touch on all airlines, all airports and all aircrafts and this post is based on my experiences. Hope this helps you too.
