Writing from the free kiosk at the ORD Admiral's Club. My ORD-DFW flight is delayed by a half hour, but the Platinum Service Desk agent said that I'd probably still make my 48, now 18 minute connection. If not, there are two more DFW-SAT flights after that, so I'm not worried. I'm on a 777 in a Y-ticketed Business seat to DFW, so I'll take the delay over paying $93 to upgrade on the F-100 nonstop.

AA 2347 DFW-ORD 1730-2001
Update: Get to the gate half an hour before the new 6pm departure, the plane isn't there... I ask the gate agent when we're going, she said "6:30, maybe 6:45." She was obviously disgusted, and was rerouting everybody. She found a 25D/E combination for me (D for me, E blocked) on the SAT nonstop, and sent me back to the Admiral's Club.

I had a great call before leaving the apartment to the Wyndham Fairmount where I'm staying. I called to see if my Wyndham ByRequest # was in my record - I had called the 800# and had it added after I got the Wyndham with my Priceline bid. After that, I had a question about which shuttle service to take, so they sent me to the supervisor. After he answered my question, he inquired as to who I was, and replied "Oh, Mr Nick, you are our ByRequest guest this evening. Everything will be set up for you when you arrive. What time will you be here?"

Gee, I guess ByRequest isn't too well known, since they don't give away miles. This is my first stay with it, so we'll see how it goes!

Looking forward to meeting everybody!

[This message has been edited by ElmhurstNick (edited 11-03-2000).]