Celebrity sightings - Page 24

me4yankees · Dec 9, 09, 12:49 pm

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Originally Posted by GoodOmens

Just saw Santa Clause (beard, suit etc) in F on my SEA-PHX. Mrs Clause was sitting next to him but she wasn't dressed the part.

Claus or Clause? There's a difference!

GoodOmens · Dec 9, 09, 2:53 pm

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Originally Posted by me4yankees

Claus or Clause? There's a difference!

Haha should be claus. Wrote this on my phone so I think it auto corrected me without my knowledge. The iPhone must be antichristmas!

USirritated · Dec 9, 09, 3:34 pm

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Originally Posted by GoodOmens

Haha should be claus. Wrote this on my phone so I think it auto corrected me without my knowledge. The iPhone must be antichristmas!

iPhone antichristmas? OY VEY!! Not bloody likely, iPhone is about as prochristmas as a Jewish electronics store salesman on Times Square could possibly be! It's his best season! Mazel Tov and Merry Christmas!

me4yankees · Dec 9, 09, 5:37 pm

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Originally Posted by GoodOmens

Haha should be claus. Wrote this on my phone so I think it auto corrected me without my knowledge. The iPhone must be antichristmas!

LOL, it's OK, my BlackBerry does the same thing!

DCAMatt · Jan 22, 10, 9:18 am

I'm not sure if he counts as a Celebrity but John McCain was waiting for my 10:15am flight DCA to PHX this morning. I now know why I couldn't get an upgrade even as a chairman. He had his whole Entourage with him. They needed 7 Volunteers so I gave up my seat for a $400 TFC.

kinglobjaw · Jan 22, 10, 11:32 am

Was it a 757 run? 49? That flight is always full and such a tough upgrade regardless of whether McCain is on it or not, hehe

-Kinglobjaw

USirritated · Jan 22, 10, 11:38 am

John McCain is DEFINITELY a celebrity, but what I don't understand is why he wasn't flying on his wife's private jet? Maybe she is angry with him since he did not win the White House! LOL

GoodOmens · Jan 22, 10, 12:22 pm

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Originally Posted by USirritated

John McCain is DEFINITELY a celebrity, but what I don't understand is why he wasn't flying on his wife's private jet? Maybe she is angry with him since he did not win the White House! LOL

Perhaps I'm wrong, but I thought McCain is one of the reasons the reason the DCA-PHX flight exists. If that's not a sign of status, I don't know what is.

DCAMatt · Jan 22, 10, 12:41 pm

I've been booked on the 10:15am departure a number of times. It looks like it's consistently a A319. There is a 7am and 5pm that are ran by a 752.

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Originally Posted by kinglobjaw

Was it a 757 run? 49? That flight is always full and such a tough upgrade regardless of whether McCain is on it or not, hehe

-Kinglobjaw

DCAMatt · Jan 22, 10, 12:45 pm

I've been in US flights with other Political folks but he seemed to be the one that appeared the most protected and with the largest entourage. There was a few security guys with US Capitol lapel pins that stayed behind but clearly visually screened every passenger boarding. Maybe he's mad that she posed with her daughter for the NOH8 campaign - clearly her support is against his views. I wouldn't let him ride on my barbie jet either

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Originally Posted by USirritated

John McCain is DEFINITELY a celebrity, but what I don't understand is why he wasn't flying on his wife's private jet? Maybe she is angry with him since he did not win the White House! LOL

USirritated · Jan 22, 10, 3:16 pm

Maybe he has some residual extra security as the most recent Republican Presidential Candidate for President that other Senators do not have.

MattNeedsMiles · Jan 23, 10, 5:01 pm

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Originally Posted by DCAMatt

I'm not sure if he counts as a Celebrity but John McCain was waiting for my 10:15am flight DCA to PHX this morning. I now know why I couldn't get an upgrade even as a chairman. He had his whole Entourage with him. They needed 7 Volunteers so I gave up my seat for a $400 TFC.

I have yet to score voucher. Is there a pattern or trend when it comes to US needing volunteers? My travel is almost always flexible and it would be great to score these. I suppose the downside is that if I give up a seat in F, I may be in the middle of row 34 on the later flight.

Speaking of celebs, my FA on a Dash-8 flight yesterday told me she once had Manute Bol on one of her flights. Can you imagine that guy on a Dash-8?

USirritated · Jan 23, 10, 10:43 pm

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Originally Posted by MattNeedsMiles

I have yet to score voucher. Is there a pattern or trend when it comes to US needing volunteers? My travel is almost always flexible and it would be great to score these. I suppose the downside is that if I give up a seat in F, I may be in the middle of row 34 on the later flight.

Speaking of celebs, my FA on a Dash-8 flight yesterday told me she once had Manute Bol on one of her flights. Can you imagine that guy on a Dash-8?

I can't imagine Manute Bol on any aircraft other than one of the 752's with the extra space in front of the first row of seats in coach on the right that have about 4 feet of legroom in front of them, other than that or International BE, there is nowhere for Manute Bol to put his ridiculously huge legs on a commercial airplane!

MattNeedsMiles · Jan 24, 10, 12:54 pm

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Originally Posted by USirritated

I can't imagine Manute Bol on any aircraft other than one of the 752's with the extra space in front of the first row of seats in coach on the right that have about 4 feet of legroom in front of them, other than that or International BE, there is nowhere for Manute Bol to put his ridiculously huge legs on a commercial airplane!

I know, I felt bad calling her a liar...

USirritated · Jan 24, 10, 2:40 pm

Oh, Manute Bol probably could have been on her Dash 8, I just can't IMAGINE how he could have fit! (Even though Manute Bol is relatively famous, he is just obscure enough that a flight attendant would not come up with his name out of thin air to make up a story about like that. Someone with a bigger name, like Magic Johnson or Michael Oher would be more likely to make up a story about, they are better known.)