How to make air travel suck less?

[littlebittybobby]

Okay---A littlebittybit of trivia, here---but here's a photo o' Butch O'Hare, Air Ace & War Hero, in his plane, where he is still buckled in at the bottom o' the ocean & just bones. So anyway-- He had a gun-ho' kill-and-be-killed attitude, evidently. Yup. But yeah---yer favrite airport is named after Butch. Here you thought it was after some entrenched Politician. But nope. Hope that helps you kids some. Bon Voyage. Ha. Thankk Mee.Attachment 51942023-01-09.jpg

[jp1]

A friend of ours just told us this weekend about how a friend of theirs managed to get global entry as they reentered the US. Apparently if you have an approved application you can do the interview on the spot as you go through customs coming back into the country as long as you're at an airport that can do this (I'm sure OHare is one of those) and that the global entry desk, or whatever it's called, is open when your flight lands. Our friend's friend actually submitted the application 15 hours earlier while in france, it got approved a few hours later and then at JFK, which has a 24 hour global entry desk, they got final approval and just cruised on into the country. Apparently it's the backlog for appointments because of covid that is causing the massive delay. The background check part of the process isn't delayed so you would probably get approved for that part of it fairly quickly since the slowdown on that side of the process is if you have LOTS of foriegn travel that they have to verify/get justified. (Friend's friend had literally left the US something like 2 or 3 times in her entire life, hence the quick approval of the background check part of it).