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Loading Zone (but no one to load)

I’ll be the very first to admit that the Lubbock airport isn’t the busiest airport I’ve ever been to. It is the busiest airport in all of Lubbock County, though, so there’s that.

But I digress.

During the Time of Virus and No Traveling, the passenger loading zone had very little to do.

Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 4.4.2020

Air Travel Down 91%

This tells you almost everything you need to know about what’s going on out at the airport during the coronavirus siege.

Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 4.4.2020

A sort of forest

I was in Colorado, sure. But the only forest that I saw was those wheelchair poles (But the clouds were nice.)

Denver International Airport
Denver, Colorado
photographed 10.21.2019

Airport Bar

Naturally, a flight from Omaha, Nebraska, to Lubbock, Texas, would have a layover in Nevada*. I guess.

And, also naturally, the last leg of the flight was delayed by a few hours**, giving me plenty of time to find a chair opposite a bar and take a few photos. I wan’t bored.

McCarran International Airport
Las Vegas, Nevada
photographed 9.1.2018

*Perspective:
Driving Omaha-Las Vegas-Lubbock = 2,252 miles
Driving Omaha-Lubbock = 741 miles

**Because the inbound flight hit a bird and the plane required maintenance. No word on the bird.

In the departure lounge

I’ve mentioned previously how I can fill up time at an airport by taking pictures. And, here I was again, in Omaha, waiting on my flight…

Eppley Field
Omaha, Nebraska
photographed 9.1.2018