We return early from our trip to Denver, as Gerry got a bad cold/sinusitus, etc. The rest of the trip was to be driving, so that wasn't very appealing. We took Air Canada flights. We were early at the airport and the flight destination on the sign was Vancouver. That's the location where two planes had a little collision. I can't imagine being the pilot and explaining how one didn't see something the size of a jet. "It was in my blind spot." A piece of the wing fell off each plane, according to one of the passengers.
This is one of the busiest weekends for travel, so we were very lucky to travel on the Sunday rather than the holiday Monday. The Denver airport was filled with people on the Labor Day weekend. Canadians were filling the airport at the Toronto airport, but we were there for the Labour Day weekend.
Bing tells me that the busiest time at Denver is today at 11:00am. There was a supervisor yesterday watching over the people at the departure gates. He said today would be grid lock at the airport. I thought it was busy yesterday. I guess not flying for a few years has made me forget how congested airports are.
Pearson is Canada's busiest airport, with 35.6 million in 2022 - and that was recovering from COVID. The report was that the volume was significantly up by August 2023 - 50% increase. We would have seen at least a thousand or more people in passing yesterday. On a daily basis it is in the range of 130,000 people travelling through. That is hard to imagine.
What is interesting is looking through statistics on the airport - before, during and after COVID. I wonder how they forecast volumes of people now and staff activities. Looking at the retrievals, I expect it is messy and chaotic to work in that area now. But no worries for us now that we are back home.
Here's one of my favourite plants - an Ornamental Oregano "Kirigami". This picture is from Denver in 2017 when we were there for the last convention. It was a delight to see it throughout the gardens this time during the visit to this extensive botanical garden. One could call the flowers "hop-like".
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