The 2nd leg was where I was a little scared. Going back to the CFC issue, Toronto – Miami – DC is hardly a normal routing except in the most crappy irrop situation and mine wasn’t.
I guess SABRE is smart enough to know, what in god’s name are you doing???
If you are familiar with the AA blue stock boarding pass, there is a white box in the bottom middle section where it will list your ticket number.
Guess what happened for my bp, the box was blank. Even conferring with
jfkeze and
SFO777, let’s just say I pissed off the gods!!!
*8th flight of the Trip, 14699 Miles Flown
American Airlines 1261
Miami Int’l to Washington Reagan
Scheduled - 7:50pm – 10:15pm, 2 hr 25 mins flight
On Time Departure – 7:43pm
On Time Arrival – 10:06pm
First Class, Seat 6F
Food – Dinner
Equipment – Boeing 737-800 (16F/48Y+/86Y) “Non-BSI” Configuration
Boarding started 7:20pm at Gate D19, I’ve still never used the D40-50s gate at MIA nor the Eagle E60 gates. Nah, I’m probably not missing too much out there anyway.
Again with the last minute CFC, only window First seat were available. Still it beats Row 15 after a 3 hr flight. You definitely miss those First Class upgrades
American Airlines Boeing 737-800 First Class “Non-BSI” Cabin
American Airlines Boeing 737-800 First Class Seat
*40 inch seat pitch on Domestic, can’t complain!
Pre-Departure Beverage of Water or Juice
Just a quick rain shower outside during boarding
Now here was a bet I had with
jfkeze, who would be getting to our hotel, Hyatt Regency Crystal City first.
He left the NYC office at 530pm via Megabus, while I was doing a tour of the US East Coast and leaving Miami at 750pm.
Luckily gogo is always a good option for updating each other!
Full Thursday night flight but door closed at 7:43pm and push back at 7:48pm.
A quick 2 Hours 3 Minutes up to Washington Reagan, awaiting temperature at DC, 57 degrees and rain.
We would be wishing that was the temperature for the weekend.
A long taxi down to Runway 9R and take-off at 8:00pm from Miami
I know, my camera doesn’t take the greatest night take-off photos
Crew quickly jumped into action once we were above the clouds
AA 1261 Dinner
Salad
Caesar Salad served on Romaine Lettuce, Tomato Slice with Parmesan Cheese and Caesar Dressing
Main Course
Dijon Crested Chicken
Served with Port Wine Sauce, roasted potatoes, and green and yellow bean sauté
Cheese Tortellini
With spinach and pesto cream sauce
Dessert
Carrot Cake
Hot Nuts to start
Tray Dinner, god I miss PmAA quality catering
Salad, Caesar Salad
Main Course, Dijon Crested Chicken
Served with Port Wine Sauce, roasted potatoes, and green and yellow bean sauté
Pretty juicy too
Dessert, Carrot Cake
Just some gogo for the rest of the flight to make sure
jfkeze and our schedules were good and we started our descent at 9:40pm into Washington Reagan.
But first flying over a lot of Clouds and rain first
Clearing up a bit over Northern Virginia
And finally at the gate at 10:06pm
Get to YYZ at 11am, and get to DCA at 10pm!
Ha, driving probably would’ve been faster but think of the miles!!!
Now where is
jfkeze LOL
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Part 9 – Dulles, Northern Virginia, A Flying Enthusiast’s Paradise