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Larry,speaking of airports and flight availability, this is a BIG reason why I don't like conferences on the west coast. Getting flights east that aren't red-eyes after the last session is not easy. The only other options are to spend an extra day or leave mid day on the last day...
I think they should seriousely look at east of the mississippi, south of the mason dixon with the exception of San Antonio and possibly Vegas(and yeah, flights can suck getting out of there).
Reason is, for those geographic areas, you have decent weather, you can find cost effective places to stay, (No way in heck am I paying $220/night like the Gaylord!) and you can get good end of day flight connections in the eastern corridors as well as going west.
Don in DC On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Larry Bolhuis wrote:
You, my good man, don't know a good airport when you see it! We go over there 40 minutes before flight time and walk right up. We are two hops from virtually anyplace in the country and are served by all the major airlines and several others. We have shuttle service from the airport to downtown and hotel shuttles and taxi's too. These are all things that need to be reviewed at any city before they are chosen!Mind you I'm not plugging GR as a site for COMMON (yet)And if you think May takes the weather out of play in Michigan, you really are nuts! Heck it's snowed here on Memorial day!- Larry pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:Although they are fine towns, the problem with Milwaukee and Grand Rapids is primarily the weather. Grand Rapids is further hindered by its airport. I have said many times to many board members that the cities we should use are Atlanta, New Orleans, San Antonio, and Anaheim. Easy to get to, they are in the southern part of the US, and the facilities (and any unions) are easy to deal with.I also think that COMMON should cut back to one conference per year, and hold it in May. If we want to use more northern cities, May would take the weather out of the equation.As for blandness, who cares? Bosses are paying for attendees to be educated, not entertained.-- Larry Bolhuis IBM eServer Certified Systems Expert: Vice President iSeries Technical Solutions V5R3 Arbor Solutions, Inc. iSeries LPAR Technical Solutions V5R3 1345 Monroe NW Suite 259 iSeries Linux Technical Solutions V5R3Grand Rapids, MI 49505 iSeries Windows Integration Technical Solutions V5R3IBM eServer Certified Systems Specialist(616) 451-2500 iSeries System Administrator for OS/400 V5R3(616) 451-2571 - Fax AS/400 RPG IV Developer (616) 260-4746 - Cell iSeries System Command Operations V5R2If you can read this, thank a teacher....and since it's in English, thank a soldier.-- This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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