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2 wodford reserves on the plane are usually fine by me, weed is a bit too much.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:AA year is Feb tho AA qualification year is still the calendar year. Status just lasts until Feb
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i fly airplanes posted:AA qualification year is still the calendar year. Status just lasts until Feb Nah it’s not. Qualify until end of Feb. They just emailed about this.
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Is there any point to a Corporate Gold Amex? Like why would a company bother paying for it for their employees over Corporate Green?
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smackfu posted:Is there any point to a Corporate Gold Amex? Like why would a company bother paying for it for their employees over Corporate Green? At my previous company it was a perk for managing directors.
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sellouts posted:Nah it’s not. Qualify until end of Feb. Is this a permanent change with the new program?
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As much as anything is in regards to ff programs? lol I think its to line up expiration with qualifying. I have no idea
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smackfu posted:Is there any point to a Corporate Gold Amex? Like why would a company bother paying for it for their employees over Corporate Green? Almost none, best I could tell. You don't get forex fees on the gold and there's some minor category earning that doesn't matter. I guess there's the intangibles of plopping down the metal gold card to pick up the tab but at this point everyone has a metal card so that cachet is long gone. poo poo, I don't even earn points for myself on my green card and it doesn't have tap to pay. Slumming it.
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Yeah as far as I can tell, you get silver Hilton (which is a free water), 5% back on Uber to use for personal use, and the other stuff is stuff I would expense anyways so I wouldn’t care. Having the manager be able to plunk down a better card is definitely the main benefit.
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Big airline earnings lately. Today was UA and they're printing money again
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Business Travel Thread question: does having one beer at a bar after dinner count as the forbidden "drinking alone"?
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literally this big posted:Business Travel Thread question: does having one beer at a bar after dinner count as the forbidden "drinking alone"? It does not. Getting hosed up by yourself does, though.
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Where does killing a sixer of a DIPA while playing starcraft in your hotel room fit in on this spectrum, provided you're not hosed up from it.
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So many calories.
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There were other people in the bar, so technically I wasn't alone.
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Drinking alone is normal and good.
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Thanks to whoever recommended Malpensa over Linate in Milan—had a much better time than my coworkers although whoever decided “what if between security and passport control there was a mile long duty free then the worst managed passport queue in the world” deserves jail. Because of this stupid trip I have locked silver medallion within the first month, which is the most :feelsgoodman: I can think of because is there any pair of handcuffs more golden than “I fly enough to get the good airplane seat but unfortunately still live in the plane.”
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Nothing is more European than trying to punish foreigners they don't like entering (or leaving!!!) their country through long non-EU passport queues and standoffish officers. I think Paris and Brussels by far is the worst for this
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i fly airplanes posted:Nothing is more European than trying to punish foreigners they don't like entering (or leaving!!!) their country through long non-EU passport queues and standoffish officers. I think Paris and Brussels by far is the worst for this When I land international in Brussels, I gloat in glee as I pass the long line of foreign nationals until I approach the automated EU passport scanners and see they're broken.
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i fly airplanes posted:Nothing is more European than trying to punish foreigners they don't like entering (or leaving!!!) their country through long non-EU passport queues and standoffish officers. I think Paris and Brussels by far is the worst for this This is the funniest part to me. My CDG flight into Schengen took me like 5 minutes to get through customs. 70+ minutes leaving Milan for an exit stamp which just feels wild to me. Jokes on them, I somehow cleared a Delta One upgrade on both legs home and had the least bad 16 hours of flying possible.
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I was in a similar line at FRA. I noticed that when there was an issue, the guard would leave with their passport, instead of sending the person to secondary themselves. I had the option of a 45 minute connection or 3 hours, I had booked the long one. Had a nice chat with the guy behind me about Christmas markets and how nice it is to have global entry.
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Guy Axlerod posted:Had a nice chat with the guy behind me about Christmas markets and how nice it is to have global entry. SFO Global Entry was a complete clusterfuck this morning in G concourse. The kiosks weren't working or something. MPC was the fastest. They even opened a separate line for airline crew for them not to wait in the GE line.
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Man, msp might be my original hometown, but jeez. I hate that airport for connections
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TehRedWheelbarrow posted:Man, msp might be my original hometown, but jeez. I hate that airport for connections Basically every Delta hub is a horrible connection, but if I’m ranking horribleness: DTW if you have to run the breadth of McNamara MSP SLC LGA (if you’re a weirdo and connect in New York) ATL DTW if you don’t have to run Boston (barely counts because where the gently caress are you going)
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I will not stand by this SEA erasure
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Flying back into JFK from an international destination, getting dumped back into genpop after clearing customs, re-entering, then having to catch that poo poo bus to T4 to get your connection is the top of the list of bad Delta connections for me.
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Sitting on the tarmac for an ITA flight to Rome and can confirm they've inherited many things from Alitalia, including the continuing air that everything's a little bit shambles. Shame they had to lose the name and livery but not that.
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Arzakon posted:Flying back into JFK from an international destination, getting dumped back into genpop after clearing customs, re-entering, then having to catch that poo poo bus to T4 to get your connection is the top of the list of bad Delta connections for me. If you're in genpop, why on earth wouldn't you take the AirTrain to T4 and clear TSA there? I mean, I agree that the experience you're describing is not great but gently caress a bus in the first place.
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Dtw is my main airport and after having to do the turbo sprint a few times msp and atl are still loving worse imho I almost always end up flying into c and connection in a or vice versa
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Last time I had a really tight one at, Bxx to A1 or something, I was getting ready to run it and there was a lady outside the plane to drive me to my next gate. LGA is still the worst in my experience, MSP is only bad if one flight involves the G gates.
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Thanks for the tips on eats in the Dulles area, I ended up getting some Peruvian chicken. Is AMS still a poo poo show? I'm planning a trip there at the end of February.
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six hour layover in JFK tomorrow before a redeye across the atlantic so i can be in lisbon at 8 am. i wanted to get back into the poo poo and here i am
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Guy Axlerod posted:Is AMS still a poo poo show? I'm planning a trip there at the end of February. AMS is back to normal, now. Still a pretty uncomfortable place for a layover though, and so long as Dutch frequent travellers keep using Privium (their version of TSA Precheck with a lounge) I don't think they care about making the transfer experience better
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i fly airplanes posted:AMS is back to normal, now. Still a pretty uncomfortable place for a layover though, and so long as Dutch frequent travellers keep using Privium (their version of TSA Precheck with a lounge) I don't think they care about making the transfer experience better Sounds good. I've had a layover there before, but in this case AMS is my destination.
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TehRedWheelbarrow posted:Dtw is my main airport and after having to do the turbo sprint a few times msp and atl are still loving worse imho MSP is more likely than DTW to make your life really really bad on average walking distance, and it has the downside of probably involving making turns as opposed to the entire length of McNamara being a gigantic hallway. That sprint sucks but I can at least do it. Atlanta is also like the only airport to do an air train well, even if you do have to roll across 3 terminals to get out.
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love to try to make a connection through the goddamn mall, msp
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ATL is almost certainly the best major hub to connect through. It’s one of the only ones organized in a logical way that takes advantage of the tram. The main downside is that it’s packed.
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Still team DTW all the way -- hard to beat a single (albeit long) concourse IMO. MSP always feels like a non-sensical zig-zag to me.
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