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Rantings from 35,000 feet: Awesome answer!
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Rantings from 35,000 feet. Friday, March 20, 2009. I'm at Boston Logan airport waiting to meet someone. His flight is running late. I see people coming out of the terminal. I ask one of them:. Which flight are you from? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Join Asya as she flies 200,000 miles/year, stays at hotels for over 200 nights/year and gets annoyed by stupidity everywhere. Also there may be tips for better travel. Follow me on Twitter. A couple of firsts. Travel related sites where I hang out.
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Rantings from 35,000 feet: Dutch trains not all that after all
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Rantings from 35,000 feet. Friday, February 13, 2009. Dutch trains not all that after all. Show up for my 12:02 train to Schipol from Eindhoven. Due to hotel desk having their fire drill practice at 11:45 (when check-out is noon? And the girl taking extra long on everything, train machines not taking CC (the same machines do at Schiphol) ATM machines giving only bills, train machines tajking only coins, line at ticket window, I miss the 12:02 by one minutes. My careful planned time to check out AMS *A go...
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Rantings from 35,000 feet: Is it always better to upgrade?
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Rantings from 35,000 feet. Sunday, July 05, 2009. Is it always better to upgrade? Since I've made 1K on UA a while ago for this year (thanks to DEQMs) I've been working on my AA status, and EXP is in sight (thanks to DEQMs! On UA 1Ks get the same e500s that all elites do for space available upgrades 1,3 or 4 days before the flight and we also get 8 confirmable (in advance) regional upgrades. On AA EXPs get unlimited upgrades (no e500 earning or deducting) but no CR-1s. International is another considerat...
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Rantings from 35,000 feet: Those crack detectives at TSA
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Rantings from 35,000 feet. Friday, July 10, 2009. Those crack detectives at TSA. So I get to the X-Ray belt at MCO this afternoon and I can't find my freedom baggie (that's the one quart zip lock filled with 3.4 oz containers of liquids which are made magically safe by such packaging). Anyway, I'm sure you all guessed what happened next. They saw no baggie with liquids, offered me a free empty baggie courtesy of TSA (I need the sunscreen, etc not a baggie! I feel *so* safe now! Follow me on Twitter.
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Rantings from 35,000 feet: Good day for a few more travel related rants...
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Rantings from 35,000 feet. Sunday, July 05, 2009. Good day for a few more travel related rants. I've got a few small rants for today, but Ben's got the big one. We left AUS around the same time today, me heading for MCO (Orlando) via DFW and him back to SFO via DEN. Somehow his plane landed in PUB. Now, that's an airport code I was unfamiliar with, having never landed there, and that's because it's Pueblo Memorial Airport in Pueblo Colorado. Check out his flight path. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Rantings from 35,000 feet: More rental car annoyances
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Rantings from 35,000 feet. Sunday, July 05, 2009. More rental car annoyances. I land in Orlando tonight where I've been three or four times in the last few years and start looking for Hertz. I see every other major car rental company but them. Turns out Hertz is off-airport here along with all the "no name" rent a wreck companies. Ugh! It certainly wasn't the food in F that made me happy! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Also there may be tips for better travel. Follow me on Twitter.
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Rantings from 35,000 feet: Stupid American
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Rantings from 35,000 feet. Friday, July 10, 2009. I was routed MCO-LAX-SFO. I was actually going to LAX for a reason! So when their stupid system rebooked me on MCO-DFW-SFO (all on MD-80s, no less : that doesn't really help me get to LAX. Oh well, at least I got a lunch voucher. I was going to use it in DFW but apparently it's only good here. All $7.50 of it. Because we just had some lightening, now *no* planes are arriving or departing MCO! So I may have missed my last chance to get out of here! Flight ...
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Rantings from 35,000 feet: Heathrow to Sheraton
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Rantings from 35,000 feet. Friday, February 13, 2009. Good deal: go to central bus terminal and take 75, 76 or U3 bus for free (and take a five minute walk). Good deal: arrange w/hotel for a car, £10 between hotel and terminals 1,2,3. Not a good deal: Hotel Hoppa bus, £4 per person, takes as long as the free bus though gets you to the door of the hotel. Eventually. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Also there may be tips for better travel. Follow me on Twitter. Dutch trains not all that after all.
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Rantings from 35,000 feet: Flight delays and gate postings
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Rantings from 35,000 feet. Monday, June 22, 2009. Flight delays and gate postings. Here's a new one. I'm on AA194 today (SFO-BOS) which was supposed to leave at 1:15pm. We start boarding 30 minutes before, even though Logan is a mess and everything is an hour or more late into it. Okay, no problem, maybe they expect that by 10pm it'll get better. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Join Asya as she flies 200,000 miles/year, stays at hotels for over 200 nights/year and gets annoyed by stupidity everywhere.
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Rantings from 35,000 feet: In case you missed it
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Rantings from 35,000 feet. Friday, September 04, 2009. In case you missed it. American announced a *second* DEQM (Double Elite Qualifying Miles) promotion from now till Dec 15th. No prior purchase required, just register. Given they already did that March-June, this basically means they've almost cut in half miles required for status. Sent from my BlackBerry. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Also there may be tips for better travel. Follow me on Twitter. In case you missed it.
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