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KillHour posted:Chase Sapphire Reserve. The Alaskan lounge is one of the better ones at LAX anyways. Ask him to stop kicking the back of your seat, don't just stare at him. And if he persists, call a FA to be moved. Also the AS lounge is pretty terrible and definitely not worth the trek from UA unless you have a lot of time. It is however, one of a few Priority Pass lounges at LAX at all, which is also why it's quite crowded with pretty basic amenities.
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I did ask him and so did the flight attendant. It was a full flight. Then when we landed, someone else literally shoved me out of the aisle to tie his shoes and wouldn't let me back in when he was done. I've never noticed the AS lounge being crowded, but then again I always get stupid itineraries. I guess it was less out of he way when you had to go around all the construction anyways. Literally anything is better than a domestic UA lounge though. KillHour fucked around with this message at 06:34 on Jun 3, 2017 |
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I am about to spend more time waiting for a gate at my arrival city than I did flying in the air. Looking like 3 hours total. Ugh
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Why is EDI such a chaos pit this early in the morning? It's a pretty small airport but everything is just so disorganized. In other BA updates, my friend got a two year (!) Sapphire status extension for the trouble we had last week. Meanwhile, my other companion did not get his luggage back at all and had to expense a bunch of new clothes to BA. Anyhow, hopefully we make it to NBO without too much more trouble.
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i fly airplanes posted:This loving retarded as hell terminal that AA for some reason keeps changing names. At first it was "Gate 44" then "Gate 52" now it's "Gate 60" all the meanwhile operating out of TBIT, T4, T5 and T6 but no longer T6. GOD I HATE AA AT LAX and their entire lounge has been a construction zone for a year and is not even close to being done. I just don't even bother anymore and just walk straight to TBIT if I have a layover over an hour. I voluntarily took an Eagles Nest routing for my trip to Houston next week. It's dumb that AA doesn't fly mainline jets from the Los Angeles area to Houston Texas. It still sounded better than connecting in phx, dfw, etc
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i fly airplanes posted:You guys realize 99% of the world does not make 200k+ right. I don't want to be all #firstworldproblems but the state department guys are getting posted to bumfuckville Africa for a year with a fraction of the pay of consultants state department contractor in bumfuckville Africa checking in Dumb question: I finally hit Silver with FlyingBlue (and probably Gold on my next R&R). Does the status bump help with getting free or discounted upgrades on KLM/AF? I typically book fully-flexible tickets (class Y or M) on KLM.
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No e: forgot the discount on economy comfort at gold
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KillHour posted:Literally anything is better than a domestic UA lounge though. I'm sitting in the Newark UA club and I'm going to reaffirm this. Overcrowded, cubed cheese, plastic forks. Who the hell is paying $500/year for this crap? Edit: The. Beer. Costs. Extra. 
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KillHour posted:I'm sitting in the Newark UA club and I'm going to reaffirm this. Overcrowded, cubed cheese, plastic forks. Who the hell is paying $500/year for this crap? I paid $600 (expenses, of course) united club in January. I've bitched enough about it in this thread alone. Much worse than the admirals club I had last year (and will again next year). It was such a disappointment. In better news, I'm on track for plat pro on AA by Aug 1st and exec plat by December or earlier. Unfortunately, I qualify on segments though and I had 8 flights this past week alone. I feel like I live in airports now.
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curried lamb of God posted:state department contractor in bumfuckville Africa checking in If you are booking fully-flexible tickets on KLM, you should try consider switching to Delta and joining Delta's program. Fully-flexible tickets are usually very expensive and you'd earn far more miles on a revenue-based program. Delta can typically book the same KLM flights and upgrade them so there's no practical difference. The plus is that you can also get upgrades on domestic flights in the US. Flying Blue miles are better but you earn much less of them for the spend. Long-haul upgrades for international flights are rarely ever free, but you can use miles.
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I love the delicate song and dance of having just enough coffee before your 6am flight so you can nurse a few turds free but still pass out for a few hours afterwards.
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What a great lifestyle
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KillHour posted:Chase Sapphire Reserve. The Alaskan lounge is one of the better ones at LAX anyways. "Hey can you please stop kicking the back of my seat"
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Dreadite posted:I love the delicate song and dance of having just enough coffee before your 6am flight so you can nurse a few turds free but still pass out for a few hours afterwards. Lmao the struggle is real
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Taking a dump on an airplane is simply a non-starter for me in nearly all lavs (I'm 6'5"). As a result, I've committed some heinous acts in the bathrooms of my Beijing hotel rooms upon arrival.
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I only poo poo in airplanes when I'm desperate. Though the First Class lavatories on Emirates and Qatar are wonders to behold. You could have an orgy in there.
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Is it poor form to book a Premier Lyft (instead of a base Lyft) when you are visiting a client? I will expense this trip from my office to the airport to them afterwards. The price difference is like $40 vs $95 from here to LAX. I think a taxi would run about $75. Mandalay fucked around with this message at 23:35 on Jun 5, 2017 |
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Jun 5, 2017 23:32
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Some of the cities that haven't reached Uber/Lyft maturity I'd do it or rent a car. The next driver the asks me to navigate through the city they live in gets zero stars.
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I'm flying American in to Nashville tomorrow. Getting to Nashville out of Miami seems to be an issue direct flights seem to be pretty rare and everything connects through CLT. My return though is direct which is nice on Thursday night so I can't complain about that. I am driving to buttfuck Fayetteville Tennessee for a medical facility. Does anyone have any experience with butt gently caress Fayetteville Tennessee? It is apparently so remote I cannot use an SPG property and instead staying in a Hampton Inn :-(
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Mandalay posted:Is it poor form to book a Premier Lyft (instead of a base Lyft) when you are visiting a client? I will expense this trip from my office to the airport to them afterwards. It depends. It would probably show up on the receipt, and I try to save the company money when possible. But if there's a problem with base in a particular situation then I'd do it. I try to act like it's my company, but make sure I don't suffer needlessly on the road.
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Mandalay posted:Is it poor form to book a Premier Lyft (instead of a base Lyft) when you are visiting a client? I will expense this trip from my office to the airport to them afterwards. Just say that you are really tired and a regular Lyft was hard to find.
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i fly airplanes posted:Hopefully nobody's flying Qatar Airways for the next little while I dunno that there's much to about here. Most of their workforce is immigrant-based and they fly in 90% of their food from Saudi Arabia. poo poo is not going to be well there in short order.
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Mackieman posted:I dunno that there's much to Spec Ops: The Line sequel lookin good.
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My 2 o'clock delayed until 3.30. My CLT-> Nashville delayed from 8 to 930 *sigh* gotta drive an hour when I land. This loving weather man
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LAX T5 is pretty nice. I'm glad AA moved in. The bus situation to eagles nest was annoying but the operation is running efficiently given the constraints. I walked down to the bus gate to find a bus waiting, and a bus behind that ready to go as well. The Admirals Club in the remote terminal is small but with comfy chairs, and the food was probably better than domestic F. Breakfast pound cake, hot oatmeal, fresh fruit, bagels. Oh, and AA upgraded me to F and assigned me a solo seat in their 1-2 across configured E75. Aisle and window seat, why not both? At IAH, I landed to an overcrowded restroom, but quickly remembered I could use the Admirals Club just 20 feet away. This one was recently opened just a month ago, and the people here are actually friendly. New fixtures, a pleasing bathroom with Toto toilets, comfy seats basically the opposite of an EWR United Club. Downstairs, I wasn't sure how to get to my hotel since Lyft wouldn't give me a price estimate. But as soon as I requested, someone took the ride, and he showed up the second I walked outside the terminal. Upon checking into the Hilton I was upgraded to an Exec room due to a totally unearned status match from two years ago from the IHG Credit Card-granted status. I am posting this to be the opposite of Waroduce
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Mackieman posted:I dunno that there's much to I am very about a crappy abusive country getting the short end of the stick. The entire region can go to hell in a handbasket for all I care
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Mandalay posted:LAX T5 is pretty nice. I'm glad AA moved in. The bus situation to eagles nest was annoying but the operation is running efficiently given the constraints. I walked down to the bus gate to find a bus waiting, and a bus behind that ready to go as well. The Admirals Club in the remote terminal is small but with comfy chairs, and the food was probably better than domestic F. Breakfast pound cake, hot oatmeal, fresh fruit, bagels. Oh, and AA upgraded me to F and assigned me a solo seat in their 1-2 across configured E75. Aisle and window seat, why not both? At IAH, I landed to an overcrowded restroom, but quickly remembered I could use the Admirals Club just 20 feet away. This one was recently opened just a month ago, and the people here are actually friendly. New fixtures, a pleasing bathroom with Toto toilets, comfy seats basically the opposite of an EWR United Club. Downstairs, I wasn't sure how to get to my hotel since Lyft wouldn't give me a price estimate. But as soon as I requested, someone took the ride, and he showed up the second I walked outside the terminal. Upon checking into the Hilton I was upgraded to an Exec room due to a totally unearned status match from two years ago from the IHG Credit Card-granted status. Yea Delta put a ton of money into T5 and it shows. Meanwhile I'm now sitting in lovely old T3 where the sky club only has pre-packed food, chips, and instant ramen.
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Mandalay posted:LAX T5 is pretty nice. I'm glad AA moved in. The bus situation to eagles nest was annoying but the operation is running efficiently given the constraints. I walked down to the bus gate to find a bus waiting, and a bus behind that ready to go as well. The Admirals Club in the remote terminal is small but with comfy chairs, and the food was probably better than domestic F. Breakfast pound cake, hot oatmeal, fresh fruit, bagels. Oh, and AA upgraded me to F and assigned me a solo seat in their 1-2 across configured E75. Aisle and window seat, why not both? At IAH, I landed to an overcrowded restroom, but quickly remembered I could use the Admirals Club just 20 feet away. This one was recently opened just a month ago, and the people here are actually friendly. New fixtures, a pleasing bathroom with Toto toilets, comfy seats basically the opposite of an EWR United Club. Downstairs, I wasn't sure how to get to my hotel since Lyft wouldn't give me a price estimate. But as soon as I requested, someone took the ride, and he showed up the second I walked outside the terminal. Upon checking into the Hilton I was upgraded to an Exec room due to a totally unearned status match from two years ago from the IHG Credit Card-granted status. I hate you and I don't know why. In other news, I'm bitching about my travel situation loud enough to get heard. I was asked to determine how much I've been home since mid March (the last time I've had a week without travel). The answer is 240 hours. They gave me a $100 gift certificate to dinner as "a token of appreciation." 
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KillHour posted:I keep meaning to do this and switch to a backpack so I have room. You'll probably end up somewhere that sells this soon but this is my bag http://www.startts.co.jp/store/products/detail.php?product_id=258 It is robust and really easy to clean.
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Delayed 2.5 hours sitting in Charlotte eating at the burger bar in Terminal C. Still need to land in Nashville and drive an hour to my hotel. Lord Jesus take me now. This after being delayed 2 hours in FTL. Apparently American as a company is running about 2hrs behind today. We've been waiting for a crew for about an hour....they are walking through customs.
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Bad weather in Miami means my LAX flight was delayed taking off by 4 hours. Which meant a misconduct in MIA and now I get a day less in San Juan. On top of that, I used the wrong card when booking flights and didn't have travel insurance to put the hotel on :<
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Waroduce posted:Delayed 2.5 hours sitting in Charlotte eating at the burger bar in Terminal C. Still need to land in Nashville and drive an hour to my hotel. Lord Jesus take me now. Once, just once, I'd like to fly international into Charlotte and not get bottlenecked at customs. The excuse I've gotten for over a year is the baggage handling equipment keeps breaking down.
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Waroduce posted:This after being delayed 2 hours in FTL. SuperSpiff posted:Bad weather in Miami means my LAX flight was delayed taking off by 4 hours. Which meant a misconduct in MIA and now I get a day less in San Juan. Yeah it was stormy here a lot of the day yesterday. Don't have a summer flight to or from Florida in the late morning, afternoon, or early evening if you don't want to deal with weather delays.
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I haven't gone on travel in a month and I'm getting antsy. What is wrong with me?
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KillHour posted:I hate you and I don't know why. jesus christ man kimcicle posted:I haven't gone on travel in a month and I'm getting antsy. What is wrong with me? for me it's about six working days
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There are two children wandering about the aisle not being policed by their parents in first on my flight. Sigh.
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My last flight into Jordan had 5 kids doing that. No one said anything to the father, who was snoring loudly. Still less chaotic than the airport.
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I figure this is a decent place to ask: anyone have recommendations for places to get tailored shirts online?
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