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| - Flying through this airport makes up for the fact that you're probably on USAirheads instead of United. But hell, your Premier status carries over via the Star Alliance, and at least you're not changing planes in Phoenix.
But for the time you're not in the air, this place is a pleasure. Polite customer service people at check-in, polite and helpful TSA staff at the (efficient) checkpoints, all follow a leafy approach to a positively genteel airport. Once inside, you can get half-decent Carolina BBQ (get the combo with the Brunswick stew), sit in a pleasant atrium with a nice open bar and a good selection of beers, or even better, head down toward the Concourse D/E retail strip to find the North Carolina wine bar. Yes, wine bar. Sample some of the best wines that the Yadkin Valley has to offer--and their best is quite good even on a national scale. For $7, you can get a generous guided wine tasting from knowledgable attendants who know their grapes, know the wineries, and can match tastes to tastings. Once you find the one you like, buy a whole glass (also $7) and go sit on one of the rocking chair just outside to watch the mass of stressed-out humanity flow by on the moving walkways. Surf the free (although overtaxed) WiFi, post reviews like this one, and be happy, relaxed, and refreshed...until you hand over that boarding pass to become canned meat in the hull of some overfilled, undermaintained flying machine.
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