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===============================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Roger Thijs, Euro-Support, Inc.</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:roger.thijs@euro-support.be">roger.thijs@euro-support.be</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Travels"<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<font size="2"><font size="2">> From: R. F.
Hahn <</font><a><font size="2">sassisch@yahoo.com</font></a><font size="2">><br>> Subject:
Delectables<br></font><font size="2">> I hope you'll have a good time
in Las Vegas! Without wanting to offend anyone, I have to add that it's anything
but my favorite town. Good thing: check out the restaurants in gambling dens,
because many of them have great food for lower prices, the idea being to get you
in the door so you're tempted to gamble.</font></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">I'm not there yet. It will be my 3d time for the
town with the famous "strip". For shopping I prefer though the more
standard US shopping street downtown (Fremont St).</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">The first time I was in LV, was in the week Roy
almost lost his head in the Mirage. That was breaking news on all channels at
the time.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Momentarily I'm still midway at
O'Hare.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Nowadays controlls are tightened.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">At Brussels one has to be 3 to 4 hrs ahead for AA
checkin. Actually this allows the handler to do big savings, since he rents less
desks, spreading out the queue over 4+ hrs. I was there </font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">3.5 hrs ahead and had to queue 90 minutes for
interview and checkin.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">The pasport controll went smoothly.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">The security controll for the
B-pier (non-Schengen) just toke 15 minutes of queuing.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">The second security controll for departure to the
US (AA, Delta, Continnental, Jet Airways, United, all leaving around 10 am in
the morning) has been reinstalled. It includes physical check of the
content of the carry-on luggage + manual body search The queue in front of me
was about 225 people, but quite some people got priority and bypassed the line.
I queued for about 60 minutes. The check is at one of 14 tables, organized in
parallel.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Transit passengers, who missed an interview at
checkin, were sent to gate 30 for an interview session. </font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">About 25 names were called at the departure gate
37, for them to return and present themselves at first for an interview at gate
30.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">There is an enormous difference in mentality
between Europeans and Americans. The longer it takes, the more Europeans become
nervous, the longer it takes, Americans realize they contribute more and better
to the war against terrorism and the happier they are because of their personal
contribution.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">The boarding on the AA flight to Chicago was
delayed by one hour, because of a late arrival of the plane.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">The flight went smoothly. No early closure of the
flight tracking on TV, no early closing of the lavatories. even one of the
pilots had a walk, with a chat with some passengers.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">At O'Hare one arrives at the International
terminal. Pasport controll went smootly. My checked luggage is allways the last
on the belt (a law of nature), Custom controll went smoothly. Nobody could tell
me at what terminal I had to be for LV, but in the train, AA was listed for
Terminal 3. Security check here took about 30 minutes of queuing.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Fortunately I had not ticketed for the connection
within about 2 hrs. I would have missed it.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">While taking a 5 hrs connection time, I have some
spare time for sending this message from within terminal 3 at
O'Hare.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">I hope we will get in the air before it starts
snowing, as announced for this evening.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Regards,</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Roger</font></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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