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If you're not booking the trips with your own cc, that means you're traveling for work and they have to pay to stick you somewhere. I assume the OP is on vacation or something.
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No this is work but it's frustrating and I'm sure there is a case to be made that certain airlines in certain cities are worth avoiding despite discounts.
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Aug 17, 2018 07:03
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porkface posted:Is there any way to get relief for act of god refusal to foot the hotel bill when you're delayed overnight? Is this for work? Just get a hotel and expense it. Not being allowed to expense a hotel due to something outside of your control while you're on business travel is an extremely high tier of lovely policy because that's requiring you to take on financial risk when you travel.
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Aug 17, 2018 14:58
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if it's for work you might want to call your travel desk/agent - just helps CYA later if you have a lovely job when it comes to travel
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Aug 17, 2018 15:10
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Agreed that you should be able to expense it -- not sure what your job is but if a job requires you to travel and wouldn't be willing to expense that, I'd be wary.
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Aug 17, 2018 16:09
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Anyone interested in trading airline miles back and forth? I have 26k United miles and another 25k AA miles that I'll never use if anyone wants to trade for Delta SkyMiles.
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Aug 17, 2018 20:29
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Woo, I finally get to fly a 787 in October! Except it's LAX>DFW and in only in MCE. Have to go to Sweden in a couple of weeks and wanted to see if I could find a route that involved crossing the Atlantic on a 787 since that would be in business class, but instead it's the same old BA 777s and 747s that do the IAD>LHR route. They don't even appear to fly the A380 on that route these days. Also looks like I'll still need 400-500 tier points at the end of the year if I wanted to get to BA Gold, so another year of Silver it is.
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Aug 17, 2018 23:18
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Who operates a 787 from LAX to DFW? That's an awfully big plane for a short domestic route. The again I took an A330 from KUL to SIN, which is like a 45 minute flight, so I suppose anything is possible. BTW BA operates a 787 on their BWI - LHR route.
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Aug 17, 2018 23:59
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psydude posted:Who operates a 787 from LAX to DFW? That's an awfully big plane for a short domestic route. Probably AA Asia -> LAX -> DFW and back
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Aug 18, 2018 00:12
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Interesting. I think their longest route is HKG to DFW and that's a straight shot with no stopover, but then again it's a 777-LR.
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Aug 18, 2018 00:27
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I have taken 772s from LAX to MIA a few times on AA and I have both a 772 and 788 booked from MIA to DFW on diff trips this fall. Probably the most surreal large plane short route was a 767 on MIA-MCO. I got a free upgrade to business so I laid flat for like 30 minutes. Free premium economy seat for the price of economy, yay! And the chance of an upgrade to lie flat...maybe
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Aug 18, 2018 00:34
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psydude posted:Who operates a 787 from LAX to DFW? That's an awfully big plane for a short domestic route. Positioning flight for an AA 787. DFW flys a ton of places in the 787, especially South America. LAX with the 787 is limited to a couple random destinations like Beijing, Osaka, and New Zealand.
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Aug 18, 2018 01:07
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DJCobol posted:Anyone interested in trading airline miles back and forth? I have 26k United miles and another 25k AA miles that I'll never use if anyone wants to trade for Delta SkyMiles. i also have a handful of united miles lying around that i’ll probably never use and will trade for delta if someone exhausts the above poster
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Aug 18, 2018 04:30
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Lote posted:Positioning flight for an AA 787.
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Aug 18, 2018 05:19
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drgitlin posted:Woo, I finally get to fly a 787 in October! Except it's LAX>DFW and in only in MCE. I wonder if that’s the one that continues on to CDG. I believe that starts in October.
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Aug 18, 2018 06:10
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Small White Dragon posted:Exactly. You can occasionally find them on hub-to-hub routes on all three major airlines, although they are subject to a lot of schedule changes and aircraft type is not guaranteed. drat. And the free status upgrades to business class on domestic routes still apply?
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psydude posted:drat. And the free status upgrades to business class on domestic routes still apply? For delta the answer is yes.
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Aug 18, 2018 14:55
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Mandalay posted:I have taken 772s from LAX to MIA a few times on AA and I have both a 772 and 788 booked from MIA to DFW on diff trips this fall. Yeah, I've been on AA's 777 from MIA to LAX once, and their transcontinental 767 from MIA to SFO a few times, and it's great. This was several years ago, but the intercontinental tier service was nice, even if the asparagus with breakfast produced weird side effects. MIA-MCO must have the seatbelt sign off for, what, 30 seconds? I've done FLL-TPA a few dozen times, and MIA-ATL a bunch, and they basically don't register anymore.
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Aug 18, 2018 14:57
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Mandalay posted:Probably the most surreal large plane short route was a 767 on MIA-MCO. I got a free upgrade to business so I laid flat for like 30 minutes. I do MCO-MIA-MCO about every other week now and this happens every once in a while. I’ve also lucked out on JFK-MIA or the reverse, I can’t remember which, on the 767. It happens every once in a while. Last year after hurricane Harvey, I flew MCO-DFW and they changed the plane to a 767 at the last minute, to pack on relief people - I think there was army medical staff, a bunch of insurance adjusters, etc. I’ve slowly come to the realization that I won’t requal as exec plat on AA. I may barely squeak out Plat pro on miles instead of segments this year. I have spent plenty of quality time at home this year though, so that was nice.
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Aug 18, 2018 18:18
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MCI wins the title for weirdest airport design.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:For delta the answer is yes.
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DJCobol posted:Anyone interested in trading airline miles back and forth? I have 26k United miles and another 25k AA miles that I'll never use if anyone wants to trade for Delta SkyMiles. I’ve got 20k Skymiles that I would trade for AA, HMU
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Aug 19, 2018 05:57
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psydude posted:MCI wins the title for weirdest airport design. It was super handy to flight out of until they decided that having like one TSA checkpoint for like five hundred miles of horseshoe gates was better it’s been worse. Plus only having like half a Starbucks.
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Aug 19, 2018 07:21
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Something Offal posted:Agreed that you should be able to expense it -- not sure what your job is but if a job requires you to travel and wouldn't be willing to expense that, I'd be wary. Even my company where my coworkers share rooms and live off on instant noodles allow people to claim hotel nights and sleep better. The problem is that when a situation like that happens the nearby hotels get filled up and you might need to schlep to the city for a hotel
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Aug 19, 2018 14:31
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My manager has been in airport hell for the past few days in Manila. A plane crashed on the runway and shut down the airport for the better part of two days. The airline he originally booked with said the earliest they could get him out is the 26th, so now he's trying to figure out other options.
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Aug 19, 2018 15:09
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psydude posted:My manager has been in airport hell for the past few days in Manila. A plane crashed on the runway and shut down the airport for the better part of two days. The airline he originally booked with said the earliest they could get him out is the 26th, so now he's trying to figure out other options. Ferry boat to Hong Kong or Taiwan.
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Aug 19, 2018 15:32
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Well, looks like it's been a few weekend for the Marriott IT team.
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Aug 20, 2018 05:43
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Geez, some stupid people in the airport this morning. Old lady in the TSA lane talking about blowing things up. Naturally she's talking about her grandsons birthday party, doesn't understand why she is now subject to full cavity search. Frat girl carrying a full Sephora and Apple Store in her hand luggage, doesn't take anything out despite being asked 3 times. In meltdown mode because she has to throw everything away. Etc etc
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Aug 20, 2018 12:41
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Goober Peas posted:Geez, some stupid people in the airport this morning. sounds like primo entertainment, i envy you
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Aug 20, 2018 14:26
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It's like being at an expensive, mediocre comedy club for sure.
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Aug 20, 2018 15:35
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Come join me at A20 in Atlanta - watching a rude man get smacked down by a gate agent.
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Crosspost:Bottom Liner posted:https://twitter.com/WESH/status/1030175264427401227
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Update to my mattress damage debacle: I was eventually able to get the hotel supervisor to refund the full damage fee, so all is well. I was surprised that it seemed SPG corporate wasn't empowered to refund it for me, or force the hotel to refund it earlier. Maybe things are chaotic with the Marriott merger? It would have been nice to get some points for my trouble and time, but at least I'm not on the hook for $700 and someone else's mess.
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Aug 20, 2018 23:20
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How do airline staff upgrades work? I overheard an AA staffer not in uniform complaining to the gate agent that they didn’t get an upgrade to F. She told him that it had filled up (there were 5 or 6 empty F seats yesterday) and that she had one revenue upgrade before the staffer. He wasn’t happy. Do they accrue status or miles for work flights? I don’t really care that much, but it piqued my curiosity.
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As a family friend of a cathay gate agent in Vancouver, I occasionally got free upgrades to business class and as a kid I get to sit in the cockpit and chat with the pilots
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nonrevs upgrade after eligible revenue passengers if there's still space available
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Goober Peas posted:Come join me at A20 in Atlanta - watching a rude man get smacked down by a gate agent. the blonde bartender in the smoking bar there is gorgeous and has a great rack and will comp you drinks if you're funny. im staying just to the west outside Boston. i have tomorrow as a remote workday since i land at 1AM, recommend good coffee places to work or a place to do HH or get dinner. Riverside i believe its called
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Waroduce posted:the blonde bartender in the smoking bar there is gorgeous and has a great rack and will comp you drinks if you're funny. You fly out of MIA a lot, right? They changed the premium lounge to an admirals club in the E terminal. It’s all self serve liquor/beer/wine plus a bigger food spread with cold cuts and sandwiches. Since Friday, I’ve had 5 flights all delayed by an hour or more, but luckily haven’t missed any connections, due to everything being late. My most recent is a SEA-BIL that is delayed due to smoke from the CA wildfires (?!). I’ll get in at 2am mountain time and have to be at the job site at 9am 
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Yeah, we made several 360s over the Oregon/Washington border yesterday waiting for visibility to improve at SEA. It definitely wasn't as smokey today, supposedly (hopefully) better by Friday do I can fly back out. It was weird having to dust the ash off my rental car this morning though.
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So I'm supposed to be in a hotel indego right now but they overbooked and im staying at a local colleges conference center in a room that is most def a repurpose dorm room....i am loving pissed and tired. what should i ask for? cause im gunna bitch real hard at the GM how do you loving overbook a hotel indigo in some small butt gently caress lovely massachussets town
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