With Cats MEOWING me to death in the background, CATMAN is back in the air on FLyertalk.

Maui was wonderful, will e-mail details to those interested (NOT HERE) but here are
things that happened that ARE RELATED TO THIS
SITE (No NANCY awards for me today

SORRY if this is long... WHen I'm fried I
babble.

*Fast check-in's at all the Premier counters
(30 secs max, though the security questions
were phrased differently at EWR, SFO and Maui
(I came in from the Red-Eye from SFO, I can't
remember the spelling of Maui's airport!)

*Nice to have a separate section at SFO for
the First and Business and elite premiers.
They let a few "regular" mileage plus members in. While it was 9 p-m and no lines, what if
there were with 955 thousand M-P's there!

*A Two hour delay at SFO going to MAUI but UA did not explain what was going on for awhile
until some angry first class passengers started asking why.

*Giving some sequence to boarding has NOT
changed. AT EWR they let the First Class
and Elites like me on first. Then this elderly couple who really needed time to get
on stood there, afraid to board. I Told them to go ahead of me... and say they are 1K (Though one man complained that I was walking too slow to let them on.)

*BUT: at MAUI, the flight attendant got furious when announcing boarding for SFO and 100 people charged the gate. She checked EVERYONE's Ticket and waved those aside who were not Premier or needed assistance or in First.

*Going to Maui: They ran out of the Hawaiian
fish (it's spelled like Maui... can't remember) and I told them I don't eat veal and had enough chicken to look like one.
So the captain wanted chicken... I got his
nicely prepared steak.

*THe Westin Maui had everything ready for me
when I arrived very late and ready to sleep.
THey gave me both the Yellow "completely free" and White "8-dollars off" Breakfast
coupons. I used the free and gave the 8 buck
ones to this couple with three kids who looked like they could really use it (the hotel accepted it.)

*Some guy on the elevator offers me five bucks for my "What part of UPgrade don't you understand" tee-shirt. I told him to get an
Inside Flyer magazine and order from them.

*Used my Hilton points for a free night at SFO for that biz trip. They have me a room
that's bigger than most NYC apartments with
a very nice bar service set up (If you guys
were in the area I would have served up drinks!) I was expecting a closet for a free
stay.

*I'm getting to like Red-Eye flights. Fewer
people, more room to stretch out and sleep
(I passed out after two beers and that boring Harrison Ford movie) but I got
concerned when the captain announced we were
another flight number going to JFK. On take
off he told the flight attendants to prepare
for ARRIVAL. I said to them "that was the
faster flight I was ever on!" Maybe the
Captain needs to earn frequent sleeping miles!

*The three beautiful flight attendants on the
SFO-EWR red eye was the most friendly and
entertaining I have had in a long time. They
knew only to approach us when we looked awake.

That's all I can remember...have to read my
diary.

EXCEPT: showing the cat pictures to this
cute girl in SFO helped make the two hour plus wait to Maui bearable.

Thank you for reading this. I promise to be less chatty next time!

MEOW! The CAT"S BACK (Until friday when it's
off to Toronto!) CATMAN