Helpful Tips When Picking Up Your Relatives at Lindbergh Airfield

By Alison St John / Reporter, KPBS Public Broadcasting

Published November 21, 2007 at 11:02 AM PST

This story was published more than 16 years ago.

San Diegans driving to pick up relatives at Lindbergh Field this holiday season have an option which could cut down on the stress of dealing with airport traffic. KPBS reporter Alison St. John explain

San Diegans driving to pick up relatives at Lindbergh Field this holiday season have an option which could cut down on the stress of dealing with airport traffic. KPBS reporter Alison St. John explains.

Today is one of the busiest days of the year for Lindbergh Field. If you're travelling, you've heard the advice about packing your electronic gear in layers in your luggage.

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But if you're picking someone up, Shari Shipley of the airport has another tip. Wait in the cell phone parking lot on Harbor Drive just before the commuter terminal.

Shipley : This year we've actually put in a flight information display so that if you're sitting in your car you can look at your schedule and see whether flights are arriving on time and that way you also save on gas you wont be circling around and around the airport, you can just take a little break in your car.

The airport has also installed snacks and drinks machines in the cell phone parking lot, to encourage people to wait for friends and relatives there and only drive to the terminals once they have called you to say they've landed.

Alison St John, KPBS News.

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Alison St John currently serves as a general assignment reporter and occasionally co-hosts KPBS Midday Edition. She fell in love with KPBS Radio when she arrived in San Diego in 1985 and first heard NPR. She has been a voice on KPBS Radio since 1989, and has served as a news reporter for radio, TV and the web, as well as anchoring, hosting, producing and editing. Alison has reported on stories about North County and was based in the KPBS' North County Bureau. Alison covered the metro beat during the critical period of the San Diego City pension crisis, and the education beat while Alan Bersin was the controversial Superintendent of San Diego City School District. She covered health when the industry was converting to managed care and told welfare reform stories in the late 1990s when Clinton was “ending welfare as we know it.” She has covered land use issues extensively, looking at the challenges of meeting a growing population while preserving community character, and developing a better transportation system to meet environmental concerns. She has done many stories on the military in San Diego, and the series she edited on the challenges veterans face returning from active duty to civilian life won “Best of Show” from the San Diego Society of Professional Journalists. She occasionally hosts the KPBS Roundtable and KPBS Midday Edition. Alison has won awards from the San Diego Press Club, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press TV and Radio Association, and the California Golden Mike Awards. Alison was born in Tanzania, brought up in Scotland, and earned her degree in psychology and sociology from Durham University in England. Her postgraduate diploma is in student counseling. She worked in England, Nigeria, Switzerland, Belgium, India, and Japan before moving to the United States in 1981. She now lives in Oceanside and enjoys how her community is growing and changing.