Originally Posted by
Lurker
I juts looked at this on flight aware. It seems a bit messed up with the route (as you might imagine for a divert) but
look at the altitude of that flight onward to SFO. Wow did anyone's ears pop?
Must have been a 757 with winglets... they definitely aid performance.
Until I looked it up, I was thinking that the OP would need to have a notation on his UA records that indicated he was now qualified for astronaut wings, but 100,000 feet of altitude is a little short of that (it's actually around 264,000+ feet or 50 miles). Imagine: GS (Astronaut)