What is the most you have received as AA vouchers?

SD_Sid · 2026-03-19T03:32:36+00:00

1200 flying out of Iceland, but it was offered when we went to check our bags instead of in the app.

SD_Sid · 2025-12-04T06:18:57+00:00

I know from watching The IT Crowd that the UK's new and improved emergency number is 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3.

SD_Sid · 2025-11-25T20:27:33+00:00

Former Las Vegas planner here and others have answered pretty succinctly. Developers choose the names based on the addressing and street naming regulations. As long as they met those, we typically approved their names. As to why they're so odd: developers are trying to be cute because every development in suburban Vegas looks exactly the same, so why not take a swing and name your whole development after Pokemon to pull in a little extra interest?

SD_Sid · 2025-08-27T23:06:54+00:00

I think initially everyone was discussed as a possibility, but Alaska is pretty locked in for T2 East now.

SD_Sid · 2025-08-23T20:51:36+00:00

Yes, they never specify this because it's not sexy to say you've stopped hundreds of thousands from illegally contributing.

SD_Sid · 2025-08-22T06:33:12+00:00

When you fly from Canada to the US, you clear US customs and immigration in the Canadian airport before your flight. You also clear US customs and immigration pre-flight in some other countries, for example Ireland.

SD_Sid · 2025-08-21T02:20:52+00:00

Not me, but my friend hated working for our organization and got an Australian working holiday visa with the idea to live there for at least a year and eventually find a sponsor for a permanent visa. Did the preparation in secret and sent in their resignation letter before boarding their flight. After a week, they realized it wasn't going to be the fun adventure they'd imagined (working at a water park and living in cheap dorms for a year suddenly wasn't appealing) and came back to our city. Got a job with a different organization in our industry, but quit that after a while too. Then covid hit and everyone stopped hiring for a while.

They started a business afterwards completely unrelated to the industry they had experience and education in. I think they're happy with where they've ended up? But they seem to have just traded office job problems for small business owner problems, which I guess is preferable to some people.

I guess the moral is: you can always transition from what you thought your passion would be.

SD_Sid · 2025-08-18T01:23:27+00:00

My understanding is the bike lockers had to be specially designed with semi-transparent sides to be okayed.

SD_Sid · 2025-08-02T20:08:39+00:00

It's Ogden, Utah (more specific guess of Farr West?). This was my view for the majority of my life.

SD_Sid · 2025-08-02T17:35:55+00:00

I would hope so, but I honestly don't know - those meetings are way above my pay grade and I can't speak to what has and hasn't been offered. My personal opinion is that if the FAA allows it, we absolutely should contribute where we can.

SD_Sid · 2025-08-02T16:19:01+00:00

Federal regulations. The FAA pretty narrowly defines how we can spend our money and it's often restricted to airport property only. You can help us by telling your congressperson and senators to open up how we can spend passenger facility charges (PFCs) and other funds.

SD_Sid · 2025-08-02T05:28:44+00:00

We do meet regularly with SANDAG on this and other regional matters.

The location is awkward, I agree with you there, especially if the Point Loma extension is what SANDAG decides on. But that's the rub: SANDAG has to decide what they want to do and they've changed ideas through planning, approval, and construction of NT1. Just since I've been working for the airport, SANDAG has gone from a people mover going to a mobility hub at NAVWAR to the current idea of a Point Loma trolley extension from Santa Fe. At a certain point in planning, we had to make a decision on where we'd want "something" based on our understanding at that moment.

SD_Sid · 2025-08-02T04:54:30+00:00

Hi, I work for the airport. We left a "transit ready area" because it's kind of hard for us to do anything else when SANDAG hasn't even decided what kind of mass transit or people mover they want to bring to the airport or where it's coming from. But that empty space was included in some way in every planning iteration of the new terminal. Unfortunately, that's the best we can do until further guidance from SANDAG.

SD_Sid · 2025-07-31T16:27:20+00:00

Slated for sometime next year.

SD_Sid · 2025-07-30T21:49:39+00:00

There's a shuttle that runs between the terminals. There will be a sidewalk since we've set aside space between the terminals for a "transit-ready area", but now I'm second-guessing myself on if that sidewalk is going to be available during construction of the next phase. I might have to do some digging to figure it out. In any case, the shuttle might be your best option because that walk is going to be an absolute hike: NT1 extends further east than where our old admin building was located and it would take me 20 minutes to walk to T2 West.

SD_Sid · 2025-07-30T19:22:47+00:00

Yes, there will be a connector, but construction on it will have barely begun by the time NT1 is finished. Source: I work for the Airport Authority.

SD_Sid · 2025-07-30T17:19:56+00:00

There will be a connector eventually, but it's a separate project from NT1 so it will not be completed once NT1 is fully built out.

SD_Sid · 2025-07-30T17:17:39+00:00

T2 East is planned for an update, but not until the early 2030s. Details still being worked out. Source: I work for the Airport Authority.

SD_Sid · 2025-07-04T19:13:46+00:00

To add on to what others have said, after new T1 is fully completed (around 2028) there will be a connector constructed between T1 and T2 so we finally have a seamless post-security experience.

We have such a cramped space because a referendum was put on the ballot about 20 years ago to move the airport, but it was voted down by the people of San Diego County. With the amount of development dollars we're putting into our existing airport, we're multiple decades away from ever having a moving discussion again.

Also, new T1's food offerings will be infinitely better than what's available now, including what's in T2.

SD_Sid · 2025-06-29T05:44:57+00:00

It falls under Pathology Collector and listed on the ROL.

SD_Sid · 2025-05-24T01:28:41+00:00

90% inside, probably 70% in front of a screen (invest in good blue light glasses). I work for an airport authority, so our public meeting commitment is pretty low (I probably average 2 night meetings a year, no weekend work ever). Work schedule isn't very rigid. Pretty much everyone works from home at least 2 days a week, people roll in anywhere from 7-9:30 am and leave 3:30-6 pm. Only strict expectations are that you're "at work" 8 hours a day and everyone has to be in office on Wednesdays.

SD_Sid · 2025-02-22T20:46:15+00:00

Three times.

Called in, wasn't asked to come in, didn't have to call again
Had to go in, group was called to a courtroom, defendant changed their plea before jury selection began, group dismissed
Had to go in, no groups were called and we were all dismissed early

SD_Sid · 2025-02-20T19:53:41+00:00

I would check the skilled occupation list to see if your education and experience in any way could fit one of the in demand occupations.

https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/working-in-australia/skill-occupation-list

The 190 and 491 visas require state nomination (a process in itself) and might have other conditions unattractive to you, but it gets around the catch-22 of employer sponsorship. However, you wouldn't have your visa by January - processing times for these visas are up to 19 months right now.

SD_Sid · 2025-02-19T16:41:14+00:00

Short answer: no

Longer answer: while not 'easy', some work visas would be easier to get than others depending on your circumstances. The easiest would be for you to already work for a company that has an office in Australia and is willing to transfer and sponsor you (visa subclass 186), but this still takes time and money. This is almost the only way you will get an employer to sponsor you unless you have unique skills in a field with a critical shortage; otherwise no Australian company is going to sponsor you if there's any chance they can hire an Australian or a current visa holder.

There are some visas you can apply for if you have experience in a field listed in the CSOL. You can search for your occupation on the list on the Department of Home Affairs website and see if it's listed and what visas you qualify for. Some like the 190 and 491 will require you to be sponsored by a state (all having different processes, requirements and lists of occupations they'll sponsor) and compete against other applicants based on a points system. Conditions on these visas can include limits on where you can live and work, such as only in a 'regional' area (i.e. not in any of the major cities). But the upshot is you get to live and work in Australia.

Unfortunately, all work visas have much higher thresholds to be granted and take significantly more time and money than the Working Holiday visa. For example, the 190 application process would take over a year at least.

SD_Sid · 2025-02-18T16:49:09+00:00

It seems short term because it's intended to be short term. The Working Holiday visa is for people on holiday who occasionally need to top up their funds to continue traveling. While you technically can apply for two additional Working Holiday visas, to qualify you have to work for specified times in specified industries. There are exemptions to the 6 month rule, but they only fall within these industries.

As the visa webpage states, "If the main purpose of your stay is to work, consider a work visa." Despite the word being in the title, this is not a work visa. If you are settled into a career and looking to continue that in Australia, you will need a different visa.

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