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

[Joel Halpern <[e-mail]>]

For the Hiroshima meeting, I understood that Kansai was the better airport.  However, when I went to make the reservations, I could not get those flights.  (Yes, I was late making reservations.  My office often adds meetings late, so I tend to have to book late.)   As such, I ended up with a pretty unpleasant outbound routing, and due to flight delays I ended up spending the night in a hotel near Narita, and then taking a bus to get my plane to the Osaka local airport, to take a taxi to the train, ...)

Hiroshima was a lovely city, and an effective venue.  But please, do not claim it was easy to get to. 

Yorus,
Joel

PS: For those interested in unusual flight delays, the delay was caused by the flight from IAD needign to stop in Chicago to pick up an extra pilot, as one had called in sick.

-----Original Message-----
From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Randy Bush
Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2011 9:21 PM
To: Randall Gellens
Cc: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: [81attendees] are we getting complacent? Good job!

> I did a lot of research, but to avoid an overnight in NRT/TKO had to 
> take a once-a-day domestic connection, then a taxi, then a train, then 
> another taxi.

the way to avoid an overnight in nrt is to not fly there.  same for about 1,000 other airports enroute hiroshima.  you did the equivalent of flying to jfk to get to chicago.

kansei is the major international airport that serves hiroshima.
despite living in tokyo, i flew from doing biz in the states to kansei and then the easy train and then the free streetcar to the venue.  was easy.

as ted said:

>> Traveling to IETF requires a bit of advance planning.  If you do the 
>> homework, which mostly involves asking people who know the area what 
>> to do, you get there, and it's not a problem.  If you don't, you have 
>> a difficult time.

randy
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