The Ancon Inn was always a good time. Haven't been there since I created a diplomatic incident in 1986 when I flew low and fast over Noriegas ranch in an F-4.

Pretty common practice for a lot of new guys, and CA's, for that matter. Have done it for the same reason myself on numerous occasions and found I was not alone. Depending on your domicile it is almost cost prohibitive to suck up a hotel room cost on first year pay for 4-5 hrs of sleep max. Do what most of us do and pretend you've been around awhile and adjust the lights, put on a sleep mask, plug in some earplugs and hope that a couple chatty-Kathie's don't show up after their ER to HNL breaks again!! Cheers

More than likely disturbed the hens that lay the Coco eggs.

Well if you land at midnight it's clearly the next day by the time you get to the room.... so not really "overnight" at that point.
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There was a great cheap kinda cheesy restaurant called La Cascada (the waterfall). Tons of seafood cheap.

You can go to J street (calle Jota) the area of ill repute and drink cheap beer and enjoy the show. There's a place there that sells a 25cent plate of spaghetti for the 3am munchies.

The locks are cool to see in the daytime.

Fishing in gatun lake you can fill a 48 quart cooler with peacock bass in a couple hours.

Just some ideas.

There's usually a dark room with beds in most domiciles just for that purpose.

I just clicked on one of the banner ads on this site. it was advertising B737 and A320 FO's up grade to captain somewhere in China. They are offering 1,700,000 RMB to 1962000 RMB (equates to 295k to 307k) at 50 hours guaranteed. Interesting, I thought so I kept reading. up to 15,000 dollar bonus for each year you complete your contract year. (two separate bonuses) Any time over 50 hours you fly, your into overtime.

The above rates are for NB Captains! Restoration still out of the question?

Last I knew there were no beds in the MSP base, you may be saving a few coins...but probably no rest.

An Eva Air Boeing 747-400, registration B-16406 performing flight BR-667 from Atlanta,GA to Anchorage,AK (USA) with 2 crew and hazardeous (flammable) goods on board, was climbing out of Atlanta's runway 09L when the crew reported a gear door problem and levelled off at 5000 feet. The crew subsequently reported they also had a hydraulic quantity low indication. After working the related checklists the crew climbed the aircraft to 9000 feet to dump fuel, requested runway 09L for the return due to performance necessities, the crew declared PAN advising they were still working on their nose gear issue, they had the gear down but weren't sure whether they had nose gear steering. On final approach the crew advised they had no nose gear steering and needed to be towed off the runway. The aircraft landed safely on runway 09L about 75 minutes after departure, the crew advised no further assistance was needed, and the aircraft was towed off the runway.

Been away a few days, sorry if this was already answered I'm a few pages behind...

The Q-Runner is Kew Gardens, LGA, and JFK only, it does not go to EWR. The Crew Runner on the other hand, is the Delta funded FA ride to work which services all 3 airports. Go to Deltanet and do a search for "crew runner schedule". They change schedules every season so you need to be on top of unannounced schedule changes and check Deltanet often.