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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:I feel like most cities are OK to be stuck in on someone else's dime. I probably wouldn't go to the Twin Cities on my own dollar, but on the company's, an extra day wasn't bad. I have paid out of my own pocket to get out of Columbus earlier than work would pay for.
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Uncle Jam posted:I'm probably moving over to be United despite being DTW. Unless Delta gets the poo poo kicked out of them every airline is going to be doing this in the next few years so don't expect Star Alliance to be a refuge for very long.
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Feb 27, 2014 04:20
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oxsnard posted:That CC ain't gonna get me leg room which is why I fly SW and I'll be damned if I have to pay for upgrades out of my own pocket. They got talked about a few pages ago. The biggest challenge I see is deploying them before the seat comes down in the first place since you have to break out your tray table to use it. You kind of have to hope you don't have to let anyone past you while you're sitting, either, because once the tray goes back up the seatback is slamming down on you out of spite regardless of what else is going on.
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Mar 16, 2014 06:48
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Belldandy posted:There are truly no good US based business airlines left. I would love to watch the US airline industry die. gently caress them all.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:I wouldn't because it would be very hard to get from place to place and none of the upstarts are any good either. Flying is too cheap as it is. If airlines would charge what it costs to run their planes, pay their people, and make a profit, rather than charge a pittance, cut every corner that won't crash a plane more than once or twice a decade, and then declare bankruptcy, then we would see less crowded airports and better service. Also we wouldn't fly unless it was really necessary, rather than for any bullshit reason that we do today.
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Apr 11, 2014 01:13
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Pissingintowind posted:God help me I have a long haul flight on Аэрофлот coming up. It's OK. The flight time will be shorter than you're expecting. 
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Apr 11, 2014 17:24
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Belldandy posted:Totally agreed. It's 80% the price of NYC with none of the "good". Boston has always been angry at New York for beating them at their own game.
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Apr 19, 2014 18:46
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caberham posted:Speaking of car rentals, am I going to be really boned renting a van in Italy? It's visiting a whole bunch of factories and there are 5 of us. I plan on renting a van instead of taking trains for the added flexibility. No, you can get vans in Europe but they're not super common in the inventories so you want to reserve one. Giggle maps and data will work OK but data roaming is pricey - be ready for that or buy a local SIM for data or get a data access point in Italy or something. caberham posted:We will also drive from Stuttgart to Nuremberg, to Dresden, and then to Germany. Hope I don't die This sentence tells me you definitely should have some kind of navigational aid. 
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May 19, 2014 12:58
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sellouts posted:But hey, you're right, maybe there are companies who award benefits or praise or note it in employee reviews when they save what, 240 euros on a multi person international business trip. I feel like they look for those saving qualities in man hours and saving a little more than 20/day. I guess that's a pretty big assumption. There are hosed up bullshit places that operate off rules last updated in the 1980s and if your expense isn't on the "allowable expenses" list then gently caress you bitch, you're out of pocket regardless of how much company money you saved or risk you mitigated. Paradoxically, cell phones can often slip in under "telephone calls" whereas GPS receivers didn't exist for most of the world in 1986.
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May 20, 2014 01:58
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Sound_man posted:Is anyone rocking two US passports? If you do that make sure you only use the second passport when you need it. Also revealing to immigration or consulates ANYWHERE that you have two simultaneously valid passports is an instant red flag.
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May 27, 2014 15:12
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Xandu posted:The two passports would be in the same name, I don't think it'd be that problematic if customs noticed both of them. You're speculating. Let me assure you that it is extremely loving problematic to be caught with multiple passports. Even having two of different types (e.g. regular and diplomatic, or being a dual citizen) can get you questioned. Basically, you are immediately suspected of being a spy or criminal, arguably the same thing in a lot of places. You should only show the one you're using. Keep the other one in your bag or a different pocket. If you go to secondary they'll find it anyway, but you don't want to give them an excuse to send you there. You are correct in that you really only need a second one for frequent unpredictable high-frequency travel to places that need the visa in advance. Israel used to not stamp your passport if you asked them not to though I don't know if they still offer that courtesy, if not that's another reason to get one.
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May 27, 2014 18:18
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Mackieman posted:In addition to all those things, my (limited) understanding is that you have to provide a letter with your application that explains exactly why you need the second passport and what you plan to use it for. It's not something they just hand out regularly, I don't think. They don't do it a lot, and State's strong preference is that you get all the visas you think you might need for a given period lined up in advance.
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May 27, 2014 18:32
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Cocoa Crispies posted:I go to Vegas every August and roll into F in cargo shorts and flip flops like I don't even give a gently caress (I don't), get drunk and program the whole flight. See you at the Rio!
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What's the thread experience with people pleading to cut in the security line? I used to let people through until I started paying attention and noticed that over 6 months, all 8 of the people I'd let in front of me with "30 minutes till my flight!!" were chilling at Starbucks or TGI Friday's in no rush at all when I came through a couple of minutes later. (This was 8 separate times, not a single group of 8.) Since then I refuse the pleas and never let anyone in front of me, but I was curious if this is typical.
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Jun 4, 2014 22:37
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Mackieman posted:I got Global Entry and thus have Pre-check like a normal person. What is this line you speak of?  if you think it doesn't happen there too.
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Dirk Diggler posted:Not a really frequent traveler like you guys, but I had to be this person once when my ride to the airport no-showed. I wasn't chilling at any restaurant either, I had to sprint to the gate from the checkpoint and barely made it to the plane before they closed the door. Did these all happen at one airport or multiple places? Several different US airports. I'm sure it's sometimes legitimate; I'm interested in how much is legit and how much is "choads who read about a sick lifehack on Flyertalk."
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DJCobol posted:So who else has crazy travel rituals? ok, what, sometimes, gently caress you My hangup is spending more time worried about what book(s) I'm taking to read than any other part of packing or preparing for the trip. Midjack fucked around with this message at 04:49 on Jul 8, 2014 |
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Guys are lucky; a couple of years ago my bossmasters made the cut off for business class 14 hours. And everywhere I go is 13:55 according to the airline.
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Mackieman posted:Build a connection in there? The decision is calculated on the fastest route, even if a coach ticket on said fastest route isn't actually available.
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Aristotle Animes posted:They are. Save your receipts because i've heard of bills going to people after someone drove off lot and the needle dropped. I always top off. Happened to me once. Filled up at the hotel, thought I'd be OK driving in to the airport 20 miles away. Nope. They just emailed me a revised bill and charged my card. I thought it was kinda bs since the guy checked it in as full but whatever.
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Jul 10, 2014 03:31
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caberham posted:Is it really much cheaper if you fill in the gas tank on your own instead of letting the rental agency deal with Holy poo poo yes. It's sometimes twice as expensive per gallon if the company fills it for you.
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Jul 10, 2014 23:22
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:A wildly productive use of everyone's time and resources, no doubt. There's no marginal cost to salaried employee time, after all.
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Jul 11, 2014 15:22
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Thoguh posted:I just sleep with earplugs, with them I don't notice anything once I lie down. Including my alarm the next morning, sometimes.
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Thoguh posted:I have this song set to full volume on my phone alarm. It goes right through the earplugs. oh my GOD Where did you find this? poo poo, it's on iTunes. We have the soundtrack for next week at the lab.
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kansas posted:Everyone who is in the game has the same understand, no one does 150,000 BIS miles to have it spread across six airlines. Just be reasonable about it and you'll be fine. Depending on who does your audits this may not be true. I often find my auditors have never traveled for business and apply the rules rigidly (or in some cases make up their own) and you can't always bank on them not caring about a $50 difference.
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Jul 30, 2014 13:04
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There have been a few years I haven't gotten my freaky flyer status card from United at all.
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Aristotle Animes posted:I have not done this. There's a Hampton out to the west that's new and clean.
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Heads up not all the UA business seats are as pictured above, some are just the roomier reclining seats. Newer planes have the lay flat seats shown above.
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I always put my toiletry bag and at least 1 clean pants and shirt, 2 pairs of socks, and 2 sets of underwear in my carryon for exactly that reason. It's also good if some dude next to you barfs and you get hit by the spray, or you rear end explodes and you can't get to the lav in time. In either case it's really nice not to have to sit in filth-soaked clothes for 10+ hours.
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Fryhtaning posted:You're in Cookeville, TN, bro. Longhorn is pretty "hah clah-iss" out there. The best eats are probably at dives that the front desk clerk of a Hampton's Inn wouldn't know about. Hey. There are some good places away from the highway, near Tennessee Tech's campus. Spankie's is one of the student hangouts, if they're still around. Mauricio's was pretty good Italian a few years ago.
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Aristotle Animes posted:Thanks for the advice on Cookeville spots. I'm out of DC but I had family in Cookeville till a couple of weeks ago. Spent many Christmas and Thanksgiving holidays there.
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Aristotle Animes posted:Here's one I'm genuinely curious about that is kind of an old FT chestnut. Where do people stand on viewing content that may be questionable while flying? For me, I can be surprisingly conservative when it comes to offending others and while I spend a good deal of time on planes, I can obviously find another time to catch up on GOT or other HBO soft porn shows. You'll never hear me advocate censorship or uttering the words "family values" without a deriding tone but to me it's just beyond the pale when people watch horror movies with gory violence or nekidd people, subjecting others to their screens. Even if there aren't kids around to see that, you think you might be making other people uncomfortable?? If you are in a window seat or have the screen so it's not viewable to anyone else, knock yourself out. Although I do hate it when people watch war/horror flicks on night flights where their is a lot of strobing light emanating from the video device. PG13 strikes me as a good cutoff. I basically don't look at boobs, incidental or not, on the plane. Though I did discover a couple of years ago that the Saturday Night Fever on United entertainment systems is the longer unedited version.
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You'll be grateful for a pale imitation of the freedom you enjoyed a mere 15 years ago.
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caberham posted:Wish someone can make a :tsa: emoticon We already have one. 
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Just wear your boxers around in the hotel; the staff will think they're just shorts and wash them then. 
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Get your own toilet paper rather than use the sandpaper the hotel probably supplies.
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Aug 23, 2014 17:46
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Thoguh posted:A United Flight got diverted because some rear end in a top hat was using "Knee Defender" and refused to stop after being asked by a flight attendant I suspect all the airlines will be like spirit and just take reclining away from everyone with poo poo like this happening.
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Arzakon posted:Slamming back would be a dick move. The Pretty much. If it's that big of a problem keep some broom handle and clothesline with you; I guarantee they'll only recline on you once.
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Pissingintowind posted:I can only think of three reasons why this would be an issue: FYI he's the guy from Hong Kong who has to bring a teapot and suitcase of noodles for his seniors whenever they travel. I'm surprised his company actually pays for hotels rather than making them sleep in the rental car.
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air- posted:Oh yeah, there's also rumors there's also the possibility of the company booking travel for us, so yep, effectively, we wouldn't be able to claim points/miles anymore. gently caress. That doesn't usually take the points away. Give them your freaky flyer number at check in if the company travel guys won't take it and they'll stick it right on your account.
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