Re: [81attendees] are we getting complacent? Good job!

[Fred Baker <[e-mail]>]

On Jul 31, 2011, at 10:52 PM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:

>> A city with a real set of international connections is better (eg
>> Vancouver)
> 
> Since Quebec City has direct flights to Montreal, Toronto, Newark and Chicago, all of which are major intercontinental hubs, I'd say it has plenty of international connections.

Speaking strictly for myself... 

Every trip I take, I wind up on a commuter flight SBA->{SFO,LAX,DEN}, a hub->hub flight, and a final leg. That final leg is sometimes a train, as it was for Hiroshima, sometimes a full-service flight as it was to Prague, and sometimes a commuter flight. Where it gets crazy is if there are not adequate flights to support meeting attendance (if we wanted to have the IETF in Santa Barbara, I'd be happy, but the rest of you would be whining up a storm), if routes or layovers are just plain silly (I once flew Kampala->Cairo via Lilongwe and Johannesburg, and don't get me started on San Francisco->Bangalore), or such.

I don't think we have an appropriate emoticon for "I am so very OVER people whining about not being able to get end to end on a single airplane"...