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kudos:1 | wow new business venture: OK this is where the savvy businessman pops in and says, "hey I know, i can make money off of this.. I'll open a Power Bar with some tables and a few managed power-strips.. I'll make millions!"
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| Re: wow new business venture: You're actually too late. A lot of places now have power strips along bars and under fixed-in-place tables. Some even have Ethernet jacks...
I always travel with a second, fully-charged laptop battery as well as the secondary battery. If necessary I can go 12 hours between charges.
The airport situation is getting out of hand though.
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| Re: wow new business venture: said by RadioDoc:You're actually too late. A lot of places now have power strips along bars and under fixed-in-place tables. Some even have Ethernet jacks... I always travel with a second, fully-charged laptop battery as well as the secondary battery. If necessary I can go 12 hours between charges. The airport situation is getting out of hand though. I agree.
I almost laughed when I saw this in the Dallas Fort Worth Airport. Lets face it, the airport is going to do anything to charge the traveling consumer. I don't mind them charging for internet access since that is a luxury. Charging extra money for food? Ok, I get it. You are in a secure area and can't leave. Power is pushing it a little, especially at that price.
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| | | | | Re: wow new business venture: Not a fan of paying for anything, however, you're willing to pay for internet access but not the power required? Food is more a necessity than power, but you want the latter for free?
Confused...
said by Nightfall:Lets face it, the airport is going to do anything to charge the traveling consumer. I don't mind them charging for internet access since that is a luxury. Charging extra money for food? Ok, I get it. You are in a secure area and can't leave. Power is pushing it a little, especially at that price.
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| Re: wow new business venture: Just wait until a breastfeeding mother wants a power outlet to run a breast pump and the airport wants $$$ for it.
Hell hath no fury like a lactating mother (like the one I'm married to!)
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Detroit, MI | Re: wow new business venture: I have not been a fan of the airlines ever since the post 9-11 bailout money paid for with our tax dollars.
You can't have it both ways. Either charge extra for everything and accept no government money, or charge nothing extra and take all of the government cheese that you can get. | |
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| Re: wow new business venture: said by xsiddalx:said by ff1324:Just wait until a breastfeeding mother wants a power outlet to run a breast pump and the airport wants $$$ for it. Hell hath no fury like a lactating mother (like the one I'm married to!) Dare I ask, doesn't the baby suck hard enough? You're assuming the baby is present. Pumps are used to pump off milk for future use and the relief of the mother when the baby is unavailable, as is the case when mom goes back to work.
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kudos:2 | Re: This is the ticket OK. I'm a dead man. At least I will be once my wife finds out you tipped me off to that site... 
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|  NerdtalkerWorking Hard, Or Hardly Working?Premium,MVM
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Tucson, AZ | Isn't the cost of basically all airport services paid for through the assorted taxes we all pay every year? Or are basic services also something we need to pay for everywhere now?
What I want to know is how the heck they regulate this; is there a lock over the power outlet or something? Seems pretty impossible to me to prevent joe-user from unplugging some miscellaneous equipment and plugging in his notebook.
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| | | | Re: wow new business venture: said by Nerdtalker:Isn't the cost of basically all airport services paid for through the assorted taxes we all pay every year? Or are basic services also something we need to pay for everywhere now? Since I have never payed a cent to walk into the door of an airport (let's not give them ideas), they aren't making a buck off me as an individual. Their business model is based on leasing space to airline, selling concessions and no doubt, some government subsidy.
said by Nerdtalker:What I want to know is how the heck they regulate this; is there a lock over the power outlet or something? Seems pretty impossible to me to prevent joe-user from unplugging some miscellaneous equipment and plugging in his notebook. Good question. I imagine they could ask you to unplug or leave, unless you were in an airline Wing and the airline was offering that as a benefit.
Do you believe it reasonable to plug in to an outlet at any establishment you visit? (Not intending sarcasm) One might want to plug in a laptop, another might bring their power tool rechargables.... Any difference?
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Tulsa, OK | Re: wow new business venture: said by xsiddalx:Since I have never payed a cent to walk into the door of an airport (let's not give them ideas), they aren't making a buck off me as an individual. Their business model is based on leasing space to airline, selling concessions and no doubt, some government subsidy. I take it you've never flown? If you have, you've paid the airport(s). That's what the Passenger Facility Charge is for.
They don't make me pay a Drinker Facility Charge at Starbucks just to get into the area where I can drink coffee, unlike the airport, where I must pay a fee should I want to access the part of the airport where the real business is done. | |
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| | | | | | Re: wow new business venture: said by wierdo:said by xsiddalx:Since I have never payed a cent to walk into the door of an airport (let's not give them ideas), they aren't making a buck off me as an individual. Their business model is based on leasing space to airline, selling concessions and no doubt, some government subsidy. I take it you've never flown? If you have, you've paid the airport(s). That's what the Passenger Facility Charge is for. They don't make me pay a Drinker Facility Charge at Starbucks just to get into the area where I can drink coffee, unlike the airport, where I must pay a fee should I want to access the part of the airport where the real business is done. True, I've never flown. You caught me.
~rolling eyes~
Starbucks isn't in the business of providing public facilities, in fact they may deny public washrooms, as they do in chicago, however they do sell coffee and allow you to use their private facilities to drink it in.
Airports don't provide public facilities, they sell space to airlines. Without planes, I doubt there would be a use for "airports" as they are currently configured.
Did you have a real point?
Have you researched the "passenger facility charge"? Last I checked, that is a pass through charge from United, my preferred airline. Heck, maybe you'd feel good paying their local taxes as a pass through too!
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Tulsa, OK | Re: wow new business venture: This is a very late reply, and yes, United is "passing through" the charge, but where do you think it came from in the first place? Oh, yes, that's right, the airport! This is why when you have one or more connections, you pay more in PFC. Every time you land, you pay the fee. The charge is a charge to you, that the government requires that the airlines collect for the airports, rather than having turnstiles where you deposit your money upon deplaning.
You think the airlines get to keep the sales tax or the excise tax they charge you, either? Now I'm the one rolling my eyes.
The airlines pay the airports for what they use, we pay the airports for what we use. Plus they get government money to pay for things like runways (in addition to what they rake in from PFCs) | |
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kudos:7 | Such a venture probably wouldn't be allowed. If the airport already had such a business (either themselves or some other company), it probably has some type of no-compete clause. Already airports have such things with access points.
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| holy outages batman! in a way this would be good, as it would eliminate the power hogs. I get so pissed when one dude takes the outlet at the gate for the entire wait.
myself, I bring a power strip. i mean shit, while the power is free you might as well make it available to those around you. | |
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kudos:3 | Re: holy outages batman! I agree! They want to run THEIR laptop on plug power so they can spare their battery for the flight.
The outlets aren't there for customer use. They are there for cleaners who vacuum and other terminal personnel. However, you'll get (and some already have) calling BS on this power bar thing in airports and that they think that the power should be free since it's there.
Since power isn't free at home, why should it be elsewhere? Sure, it's just a laptop, but now add up all the laptop users at all times and how much is it? Besides, when you purchase an airline ticket, you don't purchase the rights to the building. They charge for WiFi, they have a service for charing cell phones which if you ask me is kinda cool. How many time has someone forgotten their charger cable? It happens or they wouldn't have this box.
Traveling has never been cheap. It costs alot to run these airports. I will be honest, it's not the business traveler that complains about this stuff because they're used to it and it's nothing new.. it's the casual traveler that doesn't like it.
I fly out today. I don't like to pay these small fees like $3 for a cart I will push for 100 feet to get my luggage moved, but it's life. I fly today... to take care of the issue of laptop battery life, I just had overnighted a 12 cell 6 hour battery.. that along with my 6 cell 3 hour, I will be fine and don't have to worry about the power outlets.
But one final note.. for those that want free power,... why? because it's there? There are coffee machines all around the place too... should that be a self serve drink for free? no difference.
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| | | | Re: holy outages batman! said by fiberguy:Since power isn't free at home, why should it be elsewhere? Do you pay for a drink at the water fountain at the airport too? Water costs money too you know...
Not all of them. The good majority of the airports i've been to have had free wifi.
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kudos:3 | Re: holy outages batman! Just like some people to think all examples are equal. Water is a bodily necessity and deemed necessary for health and wellness. Power isn't... please.. really, bring something to the table that's worth talking about.
EVERYONE who opposes always tries to being up a comparison as if it's valid. I don't care if water is free, or the air is free or what... this is power, it's their building and if they want to charge for it, so be it.
By the way, just got through the airport today. both MSP and SFO.. while they both have power centers, they also still have outlets and people were plugged in. (Most likely the entitled who can't spare up a buck)
And please... enlighten us on where the free wifi is and if you're going to make that claim, back it up. I travel all over the country and YET to see a free wifi airport. They've all been T Mobile, or others.
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| Re: holy outages batman! said by fiberguy:And please... enlighten us on where the free wifi is and if you're going to make that claim, back it up. I travel all over the country and YET to see a free wifi airport. They've all been T Mobile, or others. JetBlue terminal 6, JFK airport.
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kudos:3 | Re: holy outages batman! name some more.. It still doesn't sound like a good majority to me. I travel quite a bit.. have been in every state and in most all major cities so far and I don't see free wifi that often.
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kudos:1 | So there should be a charge to use the bathroom, or have a roof over your head at the airport? How about a non-strip search fee? What about air, maybe they shouldnt heat or cool, and you can rent a heated/cooled golf cart to move you around, or rent a heated/cooled box to sit in? What about light? What about a fee to rent "airport" shoes so you dont get the floor dirty? And a muzzle so you dont spit or chew gum? | |
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said by patcat88:So there should be a charge to use the bathroom, or have a roof over your head at the airport? To the former, why not? If the airports were so evil, they could certainly charge a very nice price for facilities after you down that taco bell special. How much would you be willing to spend to not embarass yourself? Count public bathrooms as a blessing 
If a roof could be coupled to each individual...
said by patcat88:How about a non-strip search fee? When they can figure out a way to make strip searches mandatory...duh..
said by patcat88:What about air, maybe they shouldnt heat or cool, and you can rent a heated/cooled golf cart to move you around, or rent a heated/cooled box to sit in? Excellent idea. Unfortunately, heating and cooling is a positive externality to the traveler...they have to provide those employees with a safe working environment.
See above.
said by patcat88:What about a fee to rent "airport" shoes so you dont get the floor dirty? If it were cheaper, they would. Bowling alleys do this frequently enough (so do us people that hire maids - albeit we just fire them if they don't).
said by patcat88:And a muzzle so you dont spit or chew gum? Nah..easier to confiscate gum at the door and spitting is already generally illegal if you're caught doing it and someone wants to dig our archaic laws.
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kudos:1 | Re: holy outages batman! Same as we get all the above for free with a airport (you can replace human workers with kiosks and robots for most tasks, for security searching, you can use those new radar/see you private parts MRI/xray machines, with the operators enclosed in lighted, HVACed, roofed rooms, on the note of employees in buildings, if they need to remove and areast you because your angry at this nickle and diming, that can be free, the other people can bear the cost. Basically, now the airport has 2 zones, a premium all inclusive building with all amenities but for major major money, but every one else (or if you a la carte) has to deal with sandy/muddy field with chainlink electrified fences and barb wire for diving areas, employees work inside buildings or are outsourced to India). | |
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kudos:1 | Re: holy outages batman! Terrorist! I defend AMERICA@!@@!@@!!! | |
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| Bring a spare battery This would be my approach. Screw the fees. I rather have a charged spare battery. It's more useful when you don't have ANY power available and i rather not pay those greedy bastards in the first place, especially the Dorval airport (Montreal) that raped pple with a 40$ "airport improovement" fee.
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kudos:5 | I didn't need another reason to hate DFW nothing to add, I just hate DFW | |
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kudos:2 | Re: I didn't need another reason to hate DFW MSP is right up (down?) there with it...
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kudos:3 | Re: I didn't need another reason to hate DFW While MSP has business centers, they have not banned the use of the outlets.. I was JUST in that airport on my way to SF and in both places people were plugged in to the walls.
What MSP has is a business center and additionally they have Cell phone chargers in which is what people pay for. $2 to charge the cell phone when you don't have your cord isn't bad when they supply both the cord AND the power and cahrge you up in about 10 minutes.
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kudos:2 | Re: I didn't need another reason to hate DFW I was referring to the airport in toto. Ran too many track meets from one end to the other.
I do like the wifi arrangement there though.
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kudos:1 | You have not been to MSP or LAX or SFO or several others I have seen?
DFW is actually rather nice (American concourses) now with the new construction being finished and the new tram in place. But then again I can use the USO club, and THAT is one of the (if not the) best USO's.
Only problem is, DFW charges such an outrageous fee to use the place. A flight from Houston to LAX via DFW was cheaper to catch in Houston by about USD200 (as I recall, been about 10 years). When I had to pay for flights, I always went to Austin to catch a flight to Phoenix, the 90 minute or so drive was worth the cost differential.
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kudos:18 | Mini - outlet doubler(tripler) Carry one of these and don't worry about it!  | |
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Canada | Forget it This is not new. I always thought abou this problem when looking at people using power outlets at the airport, but didn't realize it cost so much.
Just ban the use of power outlets. That's what laptops' batteries are for.
If it runs dry, go to some kind of business center that you have to pay to use.
It's not fair to people who do not use the power outlets, let alone airports, as the burden becomes the taxpayers' eventually.
And forget the resonance power crap. The public will never allow it. | |
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Springfield, MO | Re: Get real even if you had laptops pluged in to all the outlets in the place im sure there sucking down WAY more then that to start with i dont even want to thing how much power it takes to run the radar and radio | |
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Walden, NY | bring another battery On our last trip (which took us through DFW, ironically) I was lucky enough to [a] have an aircraft ready power adapter, and [b] sit next to a power outlet on all but one of my flights. Seatguru's website helped me select the seats which had the power outlets; my battery was fully charged leaving the aircraft and I just ran off that in the terminals.
Now if only we could do something about the outrageous cost of pay-as-you-go Wi-Fi access in the airports!
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| Already paid for! I guess that airport facility fee that's already tacked onto the ticket doesn't factor into this? Most airports get more than a few dollars from you already. That tiny trickle of electricity for the laptop or cell phone is nothing. It's only a few pennies by a small percentage of passengers every once in a while.
Charging for that is just plain silly and greedy.
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I'm going send a message and download my power from thepiratebay instead of feeding those power baron fat cats! | |
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1 edit | Why not charge? It costs the airport money, why shouldn't they be able to charge for it? There is nothing that says you have to use their power outlet. You can carry an extra battery if you are so tight you can't fork over $2.
Gotta love it...business travelers spending hundreds or even thousands on car, hotel, airline tickets, laptop, suits, pressing, luggage, transfers, then bitch about $2 for a service that helps the business traveler make even more money while they're sitting at the airport.
Just pay the $2 or buy another battery and STFU.
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kudos:3 | Since when... Since when is the airport responsible for supplying you with electricity?
The airport installs electrical outlets so that they can plug in their vacuums - not so you can charge your batteries. | |
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| Re: Since when...
Its obvious that they are not doing it to save money - they are doing it to make money. As others have pointed out, there is no way someone will burn through $2 in electricity charging a laptop between flights. They would have a hard time burning through a nickel.
Simple solution... add 2 cents to the cost of the ticket to cover the electricity... and turn a profit on it. | |
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Stepford, CA | Idiots In Action OMG, quick! Somebody get me an electrical outlet because life as we know it will end if I don't get to jack in my laptop and play Solitaire!!!
Hey, I have a radical idea for people looking for entertainment during layovers at an airport. It's low cost, has a very small storage footprint, won't weigh you down when running from gate to gate, and the TSA asswipes won't even give you a hard time about it. It's called a paperback book. You should try it sometime. You won't even have to fight for a power outlet to enjoy it. 
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Ormond Beach, FL | Re: Ok... Right on. Why do so many of the comments here point out the obvious and irrelevant, "They have the RIGHT to do it, so stop complaining! You are not entitled to free power!"
As a consumer, one can and should complain when one is overcharged, gouged, or otherwise given poor service. Certainly they have the right to charge whatever they want for use of their outlets, or ban the use. That doesn't mean consumers should just shut up and take it!
I hope there will be lots of complaints generated in person at DFW for this. Also, if you fly through, write a letter afterwards. These type of "slap-in-the-face" fees are always unpopular when introduced, but, too often consumers eventually become sullen and resolved to getting hosed this way.
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| | | | Re: Ok... "They have the RIGHT to do it, so stop complaining! You are not entitled to free power!"
Really? Even though we paid for the airport with our tax dollars (making us, collectively, the owners?) and considering the terminal fees and other little nickle and dime rips they pull?
"As a consumer, one can and should complain when one is overcharged, gouged, or otherwise given poor service. Certainly they have the right to charge whatever they want for use of their outlets, or ban the use.That doesn't mean consumers should just shut up and take it!"
And here you caontradict yourself. First you say: "They have the RIGHT to do it, so stop complaining! You are not entitled to free power!" Then you say: "That doesn't mean consumers should just shut up and take it!"
So then, which is it? They "have the right" why? Because they are the government? Never mind our collective tax dollars paid for the airport? If the outlets weren't for public use just why were they put in? Oh yes...The national electric code says they must be there at six foot intervals at a certain height off the floor for use...
If you dufuses put up with being treated like criminals every time you fly, you will certainly put up with being ripped off for every little thing like the cash cows you are. After all, it's the government and you VILL OBEY.
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What does the cup have to do with the price of water?
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join:2004-01-04
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:1 | Airlines Airports are really nickel and diming everyone. Anyone remember Airbus' airplane experiment of standing up during your flight so they can squeeze more people on the plane? | |
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| | Simple Solutions... Relax a bit, power-down... Read a book or a travel brochure to a place you have on your mind/never thought of. Write a postcard (pen and your hand) to the gang at home/office saying e-mail wasn't working, weather is hear, wish you were beautiful. People-watch; see Dick job-stress, see Jane diva-freak!!! See Bobby and Susie roll their eyes at their parents. Look at the cool planes. Toss a fiver bribe to a maintenance guy/gal to use a quiet area's 110 plug.
If you are on vacation, RELAX. If you are on business, you aren't that important, a private jet would have been chartered. | |
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|  Jwobot
join:2002-08-14
Sterling Heights, MI | Re: Simple Solutions... If your business person you should have a back up battery.
If your a non business person you shouldn't complain about paying $2. | |
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| | | Who the hell can relax at an airport? Rush, rush, rush to get to the airport hours early. Then find parking far away, wait for transportation to the airport. Then drag your bags over to the check-in line and wait. Then drag the bags over to the TSA people. Wait in the line to check IDs at security. Wait in the security line. Strip all your outerwear and shove it into those trays. Have TSA take away some new contraband they came up with or a water bottle you forgot about or whatever. Get to the other side, try not to miss anything, put your shoes back on. Then get gouged for drinks on the other side of security because they know you can't bring liquids in. And after all that, they tell you you've got to pony up to run your laptop?
If private charters were even remotely affordable I'd use them. I don't know how people can stand this shit. | |
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| | | | Re: Simple Solutions... You're the person I'm talking about !!!! 10 points !!!
Instant gratifcation is the problem. Think about before you were born. Trip to anywhere would take days if not longer. Granted, the tube-top/t-shirt/sandal wearing crowd hits the airports now, but be a gentleman/woman and PRETEND that you are flying Pan Am "Clipper Class". Arrive early and smile. It takes 3 days to get to my place in East Jesus, Russia. House-ride-bus-Logan-JFK-London-Moscow, train-that-would-kill-you, East Jesus... 2 days BEST TIME! 5 worst. Would take months years ago. Poor you!!! And some people don't speak Americanized English, "those savages". Life isn't all that bad if you HAVE to travel.
Computer? I use a ruler and pencil to draw thoughts, then AutoCAD. I read, write, sleep and get ready for the personal talk that I have invested time in to travel. I smile, look like an idiot and call home-base when I get there. My old boss couldn't understand that. That's why I have his job. | |
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| | | | | Re: Simple Solutions... I bet you walked to school uphill both ways in the snow and liked it, too. | |
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