Belle, Don't believe whoever it was. That person is telling a story!!!! This was my 3rd and they were all very exciting.

A personal and heartfelt "Thank You" to Bernie, Mizu, Rudi and any others that helped plan this special event. I have had a better time meeting FTers than touring any city by myself. Thanks to all who attended.

As for what flight Darlene and I took, Bernie would be proud. We are DL and OneWorld fliers but today we were fortunate to travel on *A for the first time. Since we hadn't booked a return flight home yet, I called DL and inquired as to what the price would be out of DUS and AMS for JAN- HNL - JAN - BUD. Since departing from DUS was only $50 more expensive, we opted to spend a few more hours in bed and leave from DUS.

Apparently DL has an "interline?" agreement with LH and booked us with LH from DUS - FRA and then DL onward to home (JAN). Upgraded all the way too.

Upon arriving the DUS airport with only 45 minutes to spare, the LH agent said DL had set the reservation up incorrectly. Since it was very close to our flight time, we just purchased a o/w biz flight on LH in hopes DL would refund the money.

The LH flight was fine. We even got a miniature car and a chocolate steering wheel of the Audi TT. (The car both Bernie and I would like to have).

Once at FRA, we spoke to the DL ticketing agent and she said everything looked fine in our reservation and wondered why LH did not issue the ticket. She said that since we would be flying through FRA in two weeks time that she would go with us to LH and see about getting us a refund on our return.

Another problem was that all of our upgrades were now gone. Fortunately everything was available again except for the HNL - JAN portion this weekend.

Then she said the system wide upgrade was only good to the first stopover. That's funny, last month on the AMS - JAN - HNL - JAN - AMS trip two systemwides covered the entire trip. Now she was saying I would need three (four if HNL- JAN were avalable). Whatever. She had been very helpful and nice so far so I decided to deal with it when I get home.

The flight FRA - ATL was fine except for the purser. She told me to get my tray table out if I wanted lunch and at the end of the flight she moved my girlfriend's seat to landing position and stowed her inseat video WHILE SHE WAS PLAYING A VIDEO GAME. We both thought we had just missed the announcement but 10 minutes later the announcement to stow the video units and raise seatbacks came on.

I thought it to be very rude and complained to a concierge I knew when I got off of the plane. I hope she actually does something about it. One other time no notes were made in my account and no reply from DL was ever received.

The other FA's were very nice and everything else was fine (except for the food.....bland and either overcooked or cold...which isn't my experience typically).

Let's all go back for a few days.....3 mad days for example.

Chris Moss


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