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AdrenalinG posted:Burning all my AA miles before the great devaluation that's forthcoming. Some insane pricing: 17.5k in business for intra-Australia/NZ, 10.k in economy for Qantas. That's cheaper than domestic US redemptions!!! Has AA announced that they are devaluing or is this just a expectation based on the merger?
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In this case I believe they already devalued when the merger happened (no more oneworld explorer, 2 charts). But I am sure there will be another.
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asur posted:Has AA announced that they are devaluing or is this just a expectation based on the merger? They would have devalued even without the merger. If anything, the merger has been a blessing in disguise because it's given AA other priorities and put a freeze on any changes to the program. Once the reservation systems merge and 2017 AAdvantage gets announced, I expect a few surprises.
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Is there any difference in amenities between Amtrak coach and Amtrak business class? In particular:
I mostly fly when I travel for work, so that's my reference point.
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Jul 21, 2015 18:39
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sellouts posted:In this case I believe they already devalued when the merger happened (no more oneworld explorer, 2 charts). But I am sure there will be another.
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Ynglaur posted:Is there any difference in amenities between Amtrak coach and Amtrak business class? In particular: I mostly travel between Boston / DC / New York, but both of these things are true for coach class on all the Northeast Regional and Acela trains. The Acelas have some tables in "business" (coach), the Regionals only have tray tables - but if you don't mind noise, you can go to the cafe car on the Regional and use the huge tables there. The wifi is terrible, though, and the LTE drops out so tethering is also kind of challenging. If you don't need internet to do work, you're golden.
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turing_test posted:I mostly travel between Boston / DC / New York, but both of these things are true for coach class on all the Northeast Regional and Acela trains. The Acelas have some tables in "business" (coach), the Regionals only have tray tables - but if you don't mind noise, you can go to the cafe car on the Regional and use the huge tables there. This is my experience with the Detroit-Chicago corridor. However if you are on a tight schedule and a substantial delay will screw you I would look for other options.
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Jul 22, 2015 04:52
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Uncle Jam posted:This is my experience with the Detroit-Chicago corridor. Same in Southern California. God help you if someone tries suicide by train.
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Jul 22, 2015 06:03
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Thanks for the advice everyone. I'll mostly be on one of the regionals coming from CT to NYC. Edit: I didn't account for the bumpy ride. Typing is a bit harder than I anticipated. So far it's better than driving, though. Ynglaur fucked around with this message at 12:56 on Jul 22, 2015 |
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Jul 22, 2015 11:10
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Cool thread. Any of youse dropped out of the heavy-travel routine? I'm trying to do that now, or at least mostly. I've spent ten of the past twelve months on the road for work as a contractor (Hyderabad, India; Charlotte, NC; Dallas, TX; Mexico City). Girlfriend finally laid down the law, and I'm looking to settle into a job where my travel would be limited to once a week or two in New York (I live in Washington, DC). Will I go through withdrawal?
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TheImmigrant posted:Cool thread. Recently got laid off. I don't miss it one bit 
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Jul 22, 2015 17:32
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The last devaluation and removal of oneworld explorer awards made it really easy.
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Jul 22, 2015 21:09
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Anybody fly into IND much? I'm going for a wedding in about a month and don't want to rent a car since I'm at a downtown hotel and parking would cost as much as the rental itself. I've never been there without getting a rental. Any advice for the best way to get from the airport to downtown? Taxis and Uber both look like they'd be around $40 each way.
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Jul 22, 2015 21:37
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TheImmigrant posted:Cool thread. It probably depends on how much you like your girlfriend.
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Thoguh posted:Anybody fly into IND much? I'm going for a wedding in about a month and don't want to rent a car since I'm at a downtown hotel and parking would cost as much as the rental itself. I've never been there without getting a rental. Any advice for the best way to get from the airport to downtown? Taxis and Uber both look like they'd be around $40 each way. In IND right now, interestingly enough. Find other people going to the wedding and split a taxi.
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Jul 22, 2015 23:00
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Thoguh posted:Anybody fly into IND much? I'm going for a wedding in about a month and don't want to rent a car since I'm at a downtown hotel and parking would cost as much as the rental itself. I've never been there without getting a rental. Any advice for the best way to get from the airport to downtown? Taxis and Uber both look like they'd be around $40 each way. If your hotel doesn't have an airport shuttle, slip a $10 to one of the other downtown hotel's shuttle drivers. Works all the time for me.
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Jul 22, 2015 23:07
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Thoguh posted:Anybody fly into IND much? I'm going for a wedding in about a month and don't want to rent a car since I'm at a downtown hotel and parking would cost as much as the rental itself. I've never been there without getting a rental. Any advice for the best way to get from the airport to downtown? Taxis and Uber both look like they'd be around $40 each way. I don't think so since they killed the Green Line bus that went downtown. Sharing a cab or uber is probably your best bet.
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TheImmigrant posted:Cool thread. I did heavy travel between 2008 and early 2012. Between early 2012 and mid-2014 I maybe traveled once every other month. I missed it at first since being in the same office at the same desk at the same time with the same people every day drove me nuts, but I settled into a routine and I got used to it. I got to do some regional travel that I could drive to within 3-4 hours to keep things somewhat interesting. Now I'm back up to 75% travel, and I'm back to the way I was before. When I'm out for more then 4-5 days I want to go home. When I'm back at home working in the office, I can't wait until I get to be back on the road somewhere.
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DJCobol posted:When I'm out for more then 4-5 days I want to go home. When I'm back at home working in the office, I can't wait until I get to be back on the road somewhere. Yeah, this is me. Put me in the office for a week straight and I'm climbing the walls.
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Jul 24, 2015 13:45
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Yeah, this is me. Put me in the office for a week straight and I'm climbing the walls. Same, I had about a 5 week stretch where I was grounded and was going nuts to get back on the road. Now I'm halfway through 5 back-to-back weeks on the road and I'm ready to be back home for awhile.
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Higgy posted:Same, I had about a 5 week stretch where I was grounded and was going nuts to get back on the road. Now I'm halfway through 5 back-to-back weeks on the road and I'm ready to be back home for awhile. 'On the road' as in constantly moving from place to place, or staying put in one place that isn't home? The actual travel aspect wears me down a lot more than spending a few months in one place on a project. I really hate frequent air travel - trains are much more endurable.
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Jul 24, 2015 15:24
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TheImmigrant posted:'On the road' as in constantly moving from place to place, or staying put in one place that isn't home? The actual travel aspect wears me down a lot more than spending a few months in one place on a project. I really hate frequent air travel - trains are much more endurable. "On the road" as in on a plane every single week but home on the weekends.
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Follow up double post: Thanks to the Blue Angels doing an air show practice in my hometown, my CRJ900 had to stop and land in a nearby town to refuel making us close to two hours late. Do Never Fly.
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Posting from a Frankfurt airport hotel on a Friday night. I'd rather fly
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How drunk do you folks get while flying/before a fly? I've asked a few airport-hotel-properties to track walk-in-reservations from business travelers that were drunk/disruptive enough to not fly. The numbers are significantly higher than I expected.
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Sextro posted:How drunk do you folks get while flying/before a fly? I've asked a few airport-hotel-properties to track walk-in-reservations from business travelers that were drunk/disruptive enough to not fly. The numbers are significantly higher than I expected. I don't any more, but used to get 'faced before and during long flights. I had a ten-hour layover in Dubai last year coinciding with Sunday brunch and then a beach club bar, after which I was lucky they let me on the flight to DC. It was on Emirates, so it only got worse in flight. Not like belligerent Bad, just goofy and slouchy and eventually sleepy. The US legacy carriers tend to be priggish about booze, but Emirates and Etihad and Icelandair have been very generous, in my experience. TheImmigrant fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Jul 24, 2015 |
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Sextro posted:How drunk do you folks get while flying/before a fly? I've asked a few airport-hotel-properties to track walk-in-reservations from business travelers that were drunk/disruptive enough to not fly. The numbers are significantly higher than I expected. I rarely drink, ever, and have never been drunk. My observation is that pros rarely are drunk on the plane; it's more of a tourist / infrequent traveler thing.
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Midjack posted:I rarely drink, ever, and have never been drunk. My observation is that pros rarely are drunk on the plane; it's more of a tourist / infrequent traveler thing. I think you meant to say the pros are just functional alcoholics so still get allowed on. I've sat by many guys in suits and million miler tags who were basically sweating 80 proof and downing booze but not showing any signs. I also know when I started traveling a lot I was drinking way too much and had to make a decision to scale it back (not an intervention or anything, just for my long term health it seemed like a good idea, I was gaining a lot of weight). It is super easy to fall into a routine of having a couple drinks at dinner and then hitting up the hotel bar every night when you are always traveling.
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Thoguh posted:I think you meant to say the pros are just functional alcoholics so still get allowed on. I've sat by many guys in suits and million miler tags who were basically sweating 80 proof and downing booze but not showing any signs. I also know when I started traveling a lot I was drinking way too much and had to make a decision to scale it back (not an intervention or anything, just for my long term health it seemed like a good idea, I was gaining a lot of weight). It is super easy to fall into a routine of having a couple drinks at dinner and then hitting up the hotel bar every night when you are always traveling. Amen. I had to dial it way back on my last project. It was Mexico City for three months, with the client picking up my food and booze at the hotel. Tequila is only like $10 a liter at convenience stores already, but without having to pay for booze at home, things got twisted. A lot of my colleagues are alcoholics, moderately to highly functional, but it wears you down even while being tough to break away from the lifestyle. Also, at a certain age, you start metabolizing alcohol differently. I was in Brussels for several months working when I turned 35. I'd hurt my knee running on cobblestones there, so cardio exercise was out. I spent most of the project working long hours, eating rich food, and drinking Belgian beer. Suddenly, I noticed that the alcohol calories that had never stuck to me before were turning me into a fat bastard. Got rid of the weight eventually, but not the new metabolism.
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Thoguh posted:It is super easy to fall into a routine of having a couple drinks at dinner and then hitting up the hotel bar every night when you are always traveling. I've been on 3 week-long work trips now, and I've definitely observed this from the more frequent travelers. If you want to avoid falling into that trap, how do you avoid it/endure it from others, when it's travel for events & customer-facing things where you're expected to join in & put up appearances? I try to just stick to drinking very very slowly to avoid drawing attention to the fact that I'm only having 1 when most others are getting shitfaced.
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Pvt Dancer posted:Posting from a Frankfurt airport hotel on a Friday night. Is that the 'Airport' Hotel with the tiny tiny single beds and the broken rear end CRTs in every room? And the gigantic horseshoe bar that only serves BitBurger for beer? drat that place is awful. quote:Alco When I started flying I drank a lot because of the novelty that I could drink without worrying about driving but feeling energetic and good the next day after a night flight outweighs any feeling drinking could give me. Its not really a hangover but something about the cabin air and drinking makes for a negative to neutral feeling the next day. I did precheck through PHX terminal 3 today and it was a joke: You use the same security xray machine as everyone else, you still have to remove computers and liquids and belts. I asked what the point of the precheck was and they said 'You can keep your shoes on!' Ffffrrghh. And the guy in front of me tried to go through security with 4 32oz bottles of gatorade in his luggage, not sure what dimension he thought that would ever work out in.
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Uncle Jam posted:I did precheck through PHX terminal 3 today and it was a joke: You use the same security xray machine as everyone else, you still have to remove computers and liquids and belts. I asked what the point of the precheck was and they said 'You can keep your shoes on!' Ffffrrghh. And the guy in front of me tried to go through security with 4 32oz bottles of gatorade in his luggage, not sure what dimension he thought that would ever work out in. PHX sucks. Every time I've flown out of there, pre-check is essentially "here, take this card that says expedited screening on it, but still do all the same poo poo we make everyone else does, and then give us back the card." As for drinking, I only do it if I know I have a long flight and I can sober up the second half, or if I know someone is picking me up. Exhibit A: last week direct BNA-LAX with almost 2 hours to kill in the delta sky club. I was pretty much trashed before boarding and the flight attendant kept bringing me more once I was on the plane. Stopped just after take off and I was fine when I got to LA Exhibit B: a few years ago Winnipeg-MSP-GRR and my sister was picking me up at home. Bought a fifth of vodka in the duty free, was buzzed at the gate, and thanks to a flight attendant looking the other way, drunk on the plane. Somehow managed to stumble through MSP for my connection and make it home from there. Tried that again last year leaving from Montreal and the flight attendant made me put the vodka away.
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When tsa doesn't follow the normal pre check rules that must really suck. Computers/liquids in bag, coat on, shoes on is the normal at my airports. I'd be mildly inconvenienced if I had to take my poo poo out sure, but it's annoying that the rules change, probably based only on the tsa agent's whims at the moment.
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:When tsa doesn't follow the normal pre check rules that must really suck. Computers/liquids in bag, coat on, shoes on is the normal at my airports. Tells you exactly how much any of the dumb poo poo the US has forced on airports actually matters.
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Most of the TSA nonsense is security theater, meant for appearances and not actual security. The Atlantic did a good article on it a few years back.
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Uncle Jam posted:When I started flying I drank a lot because of the novelty that I could drink without worrying about driving but feeling energetic and good the next day after a night flight outweighs any feeling drinking could give me. Its not really a hangover but something about the cabin air and drinking makes for a negative to neutral feeling the next day. Alcohol dehydrates you, and so does the lack of humidity when the cabin is pressurized to 8000ft. Combining lots of both means you're going to feel like rear end. I, too, don't drink much on planes either anymore.
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Mackieman posted:Alcohol dehydrates you, and so does the lack of humidity when the cabin is pressurized to 8000ft. Combining lots of both means you're going to feel like rear end. I, too, don't drink much on planes either anymore. For those of us who don't sleep easily on flights and are all out of Ambien, waking up with a mild hangover is often a price worth paying.
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:When tsa doesn't follow the normal pre check rules that must really suck. Computers/liquids in bag, coat on, shoes on is the normal at my airports. My home airport is "expedited screening" for people who have precheck. Still have to take out laptop and liquids, but no shoes or jacket removal and you go through a metal detector instead of the scanner. Since we didn't even have that until about a year ago I'll take it.
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Uncle Jam posted:Is that the 'Airport' Hotel with the tiny tiny single beds and the broken rear end CRTs in every room? And the gigantic horseshoe bar that only serves BitBurger for beer? drat that place is awful. It was NH and it was nice. I try to avoid Frankfurt like the plague but sometimes my conviction slips and I get punished immediately. My flight this morning was at the very end of the terminal which takes 30 minutes to get to. Thanks for the reminder, Frankfurt Airport. Also is taking shoes off at security checks standard in the US? It rarely happens in Europe. The only time I had to take off my shoes this year was, you guessed it, this morning at loving Frankfurt Airport.
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Yes. You will get it for flights headed to the US from anywhere.
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