Stuck At The Airport » Montreal International Airport http://boardingarea.com/blogs/stuckattheairport Expert advice about airports and airport amenities Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:23:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Cars, couriers, and fast cross-country plane rides http://boardingarea.com/blogs/stuckattheairport/2008/07/04/cars-couriers-and-fast-cross-country-plane-rides/ http://boardingarea.com/blogs/stuckattheairport/2008/07/04/cars-couriers-and-fast-cross-country-plane-rides/#comments Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:45:15 +0000 Harriet Baskas http://boardingarea.com/blogs/stuckattheairport/2008/07/04/cars-couriers-and-fast-cross-country-plane-rides/ Musings of the Global Traveller

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]]> Flying anywhere this holiday weekend? I volunteered to serve as a courier and will be heading to the Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL) to pick up Joplin, a retired service dog being adopted by a friend.

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While I’m there, I may have just enough time on the ground to do a little shopping for maple products and local handicrafts in the airport shops.

In the meantime, I bet lots of folks will be spending this weekend complaining about the high price of gas. And I bet on Monday, like the people I talked to for this week’s Well Mannered Traveler column on MSNBC.com, some of them are going to do something about it.

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Column illustration by MSNBC.com’s Duane Hoffman

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