We all know that the Basel \/ Mulhouse airport (or Basel Mulhouse Freiburg Euroairport) is an odd case.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s binational, with a French side and a Swiss side; it boasts three airport codes (that I know of): BSL, MLH, and EAP.<\/p>\n
What I didn’t know was that the code can make a difference.\u00c2\u00a0 Search Air France for a flight from BSL to ORY (Paris Orly, where I flew this Monday), and the site sends you on a Basel-Lyon-Limoges-Paris touristic excursion that takes half a day to complete.\u00c2\u00a0 Search Air France for a flight from MLH to ORY and there are several direct flights a day.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m glad I insisted, and I feel a bit proud that I beat Routerank.com<\/a> for the quickest trip Basel-Orsay (3:15 instead of 4:44).<\/p>\n What I also didn’t know was the power of real-time GPS.\u00c2\u00a0 With the traffic information the GPS had, we got from the customer site to the Orly airport with nary a snag – and several times peered off bridges onto bumper-bumper traffic.<\/p>\n And a final thing I didn’t know was that I can smuggle a small Swiss army knife on board.\u00c2\u00a0 I discovered I’d forgotten to put it in my check-in luggage and decided it was worth a try stuffing it with all my other pocket junk in my jacket.\u00c2\u00a0 Nobody blinked an eye.<\/p>\n But I’ve heard rumors that for those small ones it’s again legal and maybe my smuggling adventure was just a exercise in misinformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We all know that the Basel \/ Mulhouse airport (or Basel Mulhouse Freiburg Euroairport) is an odd case.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s binational, with a French side and a Swiss side; it boasts three airport codes (that I know of): BSL, MLH, and EAP. What I didn’t know was that the code can make a difference.\u00c2\u00a0 Search Air France for a flight from BSL to ORY (Paris Orly, where I flew this Monday), and the site sends you on a Basel-Lyon-Limoges-Paris touristic excursion that takes half a day to complete.\u00c2\u00a0 Search Air France for a flight from MLH to ORY and there are several direct flights a day.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m glad I insisted, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}