Hey Jen! Look up information on those county and city contracts the city made with cab companies in

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Sacramento International Airport is an embarassment to this wanna-be BIG city. It doesn't matter if you travel downtown seattle hotels interstate, intercontinental or internationally, our airport is PODUNK. Several years ago I wrote a letter to the Sacramento Business Journal about a business trip I had recently returned from to Chicago, where my plane landed, I was off the plane, downtown seattle hotels luggage in hand and in my rental car in 15 minutes... 15 minutes at O'Hare!? Since then I've had similar experiences at other large airports: Logan, Dulles, even in Hawaii (Maui time supposedly), where there is efficiency from luggage check in to car rental pick-up. Sacramento International Airport (which adopted the name before any international flights were "landed") still cannot figure downtown seattle hotels out how to get you off the plane, luggage in hand and out the door in under 45 minutes. And this even in the new travel savvy Terminal "A." It doesn't matter if we are leaving Sacramento, arriving from a trip, picking up a friend, family member or business associate; it always takes at least 45 minutes to get out of the place. It's no wonder Phil Angelides has his driver drop him off when he travels... Oh. But let me talk about picking up a traveler at "Sacramento International Airport." Arriving from I-5 to pick up, since there is no "waiting area" for passenger pick up, the cars line up on the side of the freeway until they get "thekcall" from the traveler for the ok time to pickup. This is because they don't know when to arrive curbside because of the uncertainty of the baggage downtown seattle hotels pickup time - 5 minutes to one hour? Whatever. My issues with this airport downtown seattle hotels are exclusicely about it's unprofessionalism; claiming to be "international" when it clearly hasn't even earned inter-country status. and when I wrote to the Business Journal about these very issues as well as trying to pick up a cab (unheard of in Sacto), I received back a letter from the marketing director rhetoric about all of the improvements they HAD made to the airport. And when I wrote back to her complaining that a traveler couldn't get a cab in under one hour (but at O'Hare you could be in a cab in 15 minutes), she gave me some garbage about "county contracts" which was part of my very argument. Whether you are waiting for baggage or a cab, you are subjected to Union employees, who work when they are ready. If I can get three bags off a flight in Kauai or Chicago or Seattle, within 10 minutes with hundreds of passengers, why can't we get our bags or a cab or picked downtown seattle hotels up under one hour in Sacramento? downtown seattle hotels And this from a city that claims to be "international" and thinks that developing an arena for big-city events (conventions, concerts, and the like), do you think travelers downtown seattle hotels will actually flock to Sacramento once they've experienced our Union-run airport? Not a chance. And you wonder why I oppose downtown seattle hotels a Sacramento city government run big-city arena? Yeah right.
Jen, You may be right that the Sacramento airport is inefficient, but after 30 years where LAX was my home airport, Sacramento downtown seattle hotels doesn't seem so bad. I never use cabs so I can't judge there but parking-wise, Sacramento feels very user-friendly. There is 30 minutes free when you are picking up passengers and the new parking garage is very convenient although I still haven't figured out hourly and daily. My big difficulty is coming home to Sacramento and realizing downtown seattle hotels that I live here. Maybe it takes longer to get your bags here than at O'Hare but after that there is no comparison.
my point is that the Sacto airport, that so desires to be BIG TIME, is not. At all. And it's because of Sacramento's union mentality. And that's what will keep Sacramento front being big time, whatever the venue, whether it's travel, or NBA, or international concerts, or politics. downtown seattle hotels Our locals are smitten with unions, and that's it.
Jen, International downtown seattle hotels status is not acheived by Airports that actually have international downtown seattle hotels flights. It is acheived when a perpetual construction project is commenced. SMF certainly qualifies. I find the delays at airports related to the airline selected to some degree. As fuel prices climb, and profits drop, service suffers. Even Southwest, the on-time champion was late on my last two flights. I took a car tour through San Jose Airport recently (took a wrong turn) and even though that airport downtown seattle hotels is totally torn up by construction, they managed to have "cell phone waiting areas" where people could sit in their car until the passenger thay are picking up is at curbside. Apparently Sac Airport prefers to have people driving around in circles wasting gas and getting chased away by the Sheriff. The in and out in 1/2 hour for free in the short term parking is not widely known... ...and who feels comfortable that they can get in, collect their passenger and get out in under 1/2 hour? Face it, flying sucks, no matter what airport you choose.
yes, SD, flying sucks, but Sacto's airport historically is embarassingly bad. And as I said, this fron our local gov't officials who want to being big-city status downtown seattle hotels here. One flight in and stars of any kind won't want to come back. but wait - maybe Heather can have her driver pick them up...
Jen, I have to second Ralph's point about LAX. It is the pits! I won't fly in or out of it. In fact, if I can't get there from Long Beach on Jet Blue then I'm not going. I suspect SacInt downtown seattle hotels is a bit like Long Beach but have not tried it yet. One of these days I must come up to watch a Kings game. I was born and raised in the city where the Kings franchise won its only NBA championship. Can you guess where?
Hey Jen! Look up information on those county and city contracts the city made with cab companies in regards downtown seattle hotels to waiting taxi service at the airport. They refuse to allow Yellow Cab to pickup fares from Sacramento Airport. Only if a person calls for a Yellow Cab can they visit the airport to pickup. All parked/waiting service is left to small individual cabs who are rarely even fully covered by insurance downtown seattle hotels to even perform taxi service with their car. When Yellow Cab was allowed to cover the airport I never had a problem getting a quick cab with professional service. These other small no-name cabs dont even bother getting out of the taxi for you anymore. I refuse to take a cab anymore when they pop their hood and never offer a helping hand with luggage. Bring Yellow Cab back to the Airport!