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midway sucks because southwest suckschmods please posted:For a fun, non-rage-inducing time, you should read the FlyerTalk thread on the fuckup, where the consensus is that the pilots are extorting the company by accepting 150% pay. i would love to execute everyone that posts on FT
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fivehead posted:Hello business travelers Congratulations on your escape! If you don't fly as much you'll miss the status less. Depending on how you do things, the airfare may have been among the least expensive parts of your vacations.
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Midjack posted:Congratulations on your escape! Agree. Going from 1K to Gold with United (hail satan) next month. 2017 saw far, far less travel (215K PQM in 2016) but the travel I did was mo bettah.
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It’s cool to lose status when you make more money to pay for things like premium cabins and vacations and quality of life improves.
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Tell me about those anti-tamper bags for duty frees. Going NRT-DTW-SEA, and I have to recheck / redo everything in DTW. Had the shop here put in the bag, and I took the booze out of boxes so the TSA can do their bullshit on it. Correct plan? Also, NRT-DTW is a Delta A350 — I’m excited / cautiously optimistic.
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Flying out of China, I was told that if you had to hit a domestic (US) transfer you were NOT allowed to buy liquids duty free and that they would be confiscated and "destroyed." Are you attempting to clear customs in DTW? Unless you're rechecking your checked bag (and moving the liquor into it) I think you'll get some poo poo about this.
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The US makes you do customs and immigration at your first arrival into the US. Plan on putting your duty free purchases into your checked bag after you clear but before you recheck your bag for the onward flight. TSA will not care about the duty free bag and will treat it the same as if it was just loose in your carry on.
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How much did you really save to deal with this hassle?
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sellouts posted:How much did you really save to deal with this hassle? only purpose is to get poo poo that is really hard to get in the us, like various cheeses. that is the only stuff I buy at duty free
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Right, but can you really get the rare/quality stuff at Duty Free? Most of that in my experience is standard fare.
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Apparently the only thing the economics really make sense for is Swiss chocolate, which faces like a 30% tariff, and of course cigarettes but who smokes those anymore anyway? (Unfortunately airport staple Godiva is NOT swiss, it's Belgian, and thus faces no tariff anyway, so it's not worth duty free).
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sellouts posted:Right, but can you really get the rare/quality stuff at Duty Free? Most of that in my experience is standard fare. i live in loving Ann Arbor now, which is a low culture wasteland without good cheese available
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Had a nice nap on my flight home tonight- the sun going down earlier means it gets pitch dark in the cabin now. At least I would have gotten a nice nap if the couple in the row in front of me wouldn't have tried taking flash photos of the cities below the entire way home 
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:i live in loving Ann Arbor now, which is a low culture wasteland without good cheese available Take your CoL savings and fly the goddamn stuff in yourself
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sellouts posted:Take your CoL savings and fly the goddamn stuff in yourself i do, in my suitcase
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:only purpose is to get poo poo that is really hard to get in the us, like various cheeses. that is the only stuff I buy at duty free KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:i live in loving Ann Arbor now, which is a low culture wasteland without good cheese available
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DJCobol posted:Nothing worthwhile at Zingermans? It's mediocre and expensive and caters to midwestern tastes
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sellouts posted:It’s cool to lose status when you make more money to pay for things like premium cabins and vacations and quality of life improves. I took a new role a few months ago and my travel has dropped to zero. I'll still have status for next year but it's gonna be weird dropping down after that. I've had at least mid tier status, and usually high status, at at least one hotel chain and airline for the past decade. Gonna be weird going back to just once or twice a year leisure travel with no status to back me up when stuff goes wrong.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:It's mediocre and expensive and caters to midwestern tastes Didn’t the mid west or Wisconsin made their own parmigiana reggiano
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Laying on bed in Netherlands hotel in underwear with business socks on. One warm beer for dinner that was hiding in my suitcase since yesterday. Too lazy and tired to go down to the hotel restaurant. Ordering room service is a distant option. WiFi quality: adequate.
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Laying on a bed in Israel in full business attire waiting for a Skype interview for a job with hopefully less travel. No beer for me, but I guess the Wi-Fi is still adequate.
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KillHour posted:Laying on a bed in Israel in full business attire waiting for a Skype interview for a job with hopefully less travel. you should be pantsless
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I prefer pants on my head
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caberham posted:Didn’t the mid west or Wisconsin made their own parmigiana reggiano Not legally.
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loving renegade cheese, always one step ahead of the man. It's the feds! Cheese it!
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Inquiring with the friendly Delta agent at DTW, he was like "dude, just put it in your bag before you recheck it, we don't re-weigh them." (I thought I'd have to go to a counter and reweigh the already close-to-limit bags, which is why I didn't think about this). Thanks buddy!  Delta A350 was also nice (T ticket), supremely comfortable and didn't feel as dried out / tired afterwards. The 739 ride afterwards in contrast, while a perfectly good airplane, felt more like a normal flight for me, in that I was dehydrated and tired at the end. movax fucked around with this message at 09:54 on Dec 5, 2017 |
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movax posted:Inquiring with the friendly Delta agent at DTW, he was like "dude, just put it in your bag before you recheck it, we don't re-weigh them." (I thought I'd have to go to a counter and reweigh the already close-to-limit bags, which is why I didn't think about this). Rechecking a bag after an international flight before a domestic connection is easy poo poo. Just grab from the carousel, and toss it right back to the counter agent 50 feet away at DTW. The only thing I hate about international to domestic connections is that none of the airports I've been to (DTW, ATL, JFK, MSP) have a precheck line. You have to exit out of the airport pretty much, and go back in through the normal security lines.
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DJCobol posted:Rechecking a bag after an international flight before a domestic connection is easy poo poo. Just grab from the carousel, and toss it right back to the counter agent 50 feet away at DTW. The only thing I hate about international to domestic connections is that none of the airports I've been to (DTW, ATL, JFK, MSP) have a precheck line. You have to exit out of the airport pretty much, and go back in through the normal security lines. eh? JFK T4 has a precheck line
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:eh? JFK T4 has a precheck line I must have missed it when I came back from CDG earlier this year.
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*sigh* the entrance at DFW I went through had no TSA precheck, so like some common plebian I was required to disrobe and empty my pockets, as well as take literally 7 of those TSA trays between my laptops, projector, kindle, carry on, clothing, and miscellaneous items. Wtf DFW Now, the admirals club in my terminal is closed.
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Waroduce posted:*sigh* the entrance at DFW I went through had no TSA precheck, so like some common plebian I was required to disrobe and empty my pockets, as well as take literally 7 of those TSA trays between my laptops, projector, kindle, carry on, clothing, and miscellaneous items. I flew out of BWI this morning and the only One World lounge doesn’t open until 6pm. But on the other hand I have an entire row of MCE to myself until I get to PHX.
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How do you miss precheck lines at 2 of the biggest US airports?
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sellouts posted:How do you miss precheck lines at 2 of the biggest US airports? At MSP and ATL, when you clear customs, you don't (usually) go through the normal, big, full TSA checkpoint, instead you go through a smaller one only accessible from the customs exit. The MSP one only has two luggage X-ray machines, and they don't want to carve out half its capacity for the exclusive use of pre-check members.
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Right, but this is the frequent traveler thread. There’s no way around this? Going upstairs or outside briefly to access it? I’ve never entered the country through MSP but at others this is the case.
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sellouts posted:How do you miss precheck lines at 2 of the biggest US airports? DFW is weird that each terminal has three different 'sections', all with separate security checkpoints. If you go to the section of the terminal with your departure gate, you may have picked the one that doesn't have the TSA Pre checkpoint. There sometimes is a small sign that tells you which section of the terminal has precheck, but that requires going back outside the way you came in and walking to another entrance to go stand in another security line. DFW website tries to explain it but it's pretty pisspoor at it: quote:All times in Central Standard Time kimcicle fucked around with this message at 18:15 on Dec 5, 2017 |
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sellouts posted:Right, but this is the frequent traveler thread. There’s no way around this? Going upstairs or outside briefly to access it? I’ve never entered the country through MSP but at others this is the case. Just about every time I clear customs at MSP it's after arriving on one of the first international flights of the day (at like 8:30a) and the customs exit TSA isn't that bad ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I've only come back through MSP once and I was towards the back of my plane and there must have been another one in front of us because I bet it took me 45 minutes. DTW is somewhat easy, you just go out and around. ATL I didn't see a way at F-terminal to go out and come back in, but I got through that pretty quick anyways. JFK apparently I'm dumb and there is a way but I just missed it.
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In theory, if you have Global Entry, you should be able to beat (most of) the rest of your plane to the security checkpoint.
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Mandalay posted:In theory, if you have Global Entry, you should be able to beat (most of) the rest of your plane to the security checkpoint. In theory, yes, and I do have GE. However, there was a plane load of people in front of me from another flight, and all the other GE people on my flight.
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Yes, I’ve flown through dfw a ton and never had the problem of finding a tsa line.
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