After disembarking from flight UA 660, we RAN from the C concourse to the B concourse via the underground connector. The airport was busy with lots of people rushing or running like ourselves trying to catch their connecting flight. We made it to our gate for UA flight 476, just as group 1 was finishing boarding. I handed my boarding pass to the agent to scan it and it made one of those "something is wrong" sound instead of the ping. We were directed to the podium where two agents were working. They were NOT in a good mood and while helping us, were talking sh*& about someone while typing away on the computer. It turned out that our reservation had already gone over to Air Canada and the agent had to bring it back to United. Our boarding passes were returned to us and before leaving the podium, I enquired if our luggage was going to make it on the flight. The agent who fixed our boarding passes curtly replied: "You will find out once your board." Not knowing what that meant and not wanting to push my luck with the two agents already in a foul mood, we joined the back of Group 2 to board.


The scanner still make the "Uh Oh" noise but this time we were allowed to board. The first class cabin was already boarded and only our three seats were empty. We took our seats and we waited but at no point was PDB offered to us. I'm guessing we boarded too late for the FA to be bothered to offer us any. Flight 476 was a Boeing 737-800 with DirecTV and individual video screens at each seat. The first class seats on this aircraft was A LOT more comfortable than on the 757-300 seats that we endured for 4+ hours not so long ago. I think I would have been fine if we had these seats from LAX to ORD and may even gotten some sleep. I saw the gate agent who told me "You will find out once your board" when I asked about our bags earlier, walk down the aisle to hand over the passenger manifest to one of the FA's. I briefly considered stopping her to ask about the bags now since "we were onboard", but I decided to let it go and not rock the boat. Safety demo on this flight was via pre recorded video on the individual monitors. Since I've already seen this one on YouTube many many times, I just looked out the window and the things going on out on the apron.


We pushed back shortly after the pre departure routines and after a quick taxi to the runway, we were off to Toronto. ORD being the hub of two major US carriers, I was expecting some lengthy taxi times but we only had one other aircraft ahead of us in line for takeoff. Once we reached 10,000 ft, the female FA with the accent that I've never heard of before, made the inflight service announcements. She then went through the cabin hading out immigration forms for Canada. This was followed shortly later with a lot of opening and closing of every compartment in the first class gallery. If I had not known that this was a muffin flight, I would have thought that the FA was preparing a three course meal with all the ruckus coming from the galley. After the ruckus in the gallery, the FA working the first class cabin came through taking drink orders. My mom ordered water and I ordered orange juice sans the vodka or champagne since I was feeling a bit hungover from the drinks at the LAX United Club and inflight on UA 660.


After the drinks were delivered, a tray of muffins were brought out. I though I heard the FA give a choice between blueberry and cranberry, but he said it was one choice mixed berries. Judging from the conversation behind me, other passengers also thought the FA was giving them a choice between blueberry and cranberry. Unlike on my last breakfast snack flight which served mini muffins, today we received full sized muffins. I was offered a refill on my orange juice but I asked for a glass of water instead. For the rest of the flight, I tried playing around with the DirecTV system. On the ground or in the air, there is nothing to watch on TV.


Our one hour flight time flew by quickly and it was soon time for landing. The female FA with the unfamiliar accent came back to the front jump seat and the two FA's started talking while strapped in for landing. I overheard the male FA ask where the female FA was from and she said Arkansas. Her accent didn't sound like Bill Clinton's but what do I know about accents of Arkansas. We landed in YYZ and after leaving the runway, we made a straight shot to the F gates where we disembarked. Immigration was quick and there were no lines when we entered the immigration hall. After having our immigration slips and passports checked, we headed to the baggage claim carrousel. Now it was just a matter of waiting to see our bags made it with us after our reservation got transferred to Air Canada and then back to United at the last minute. Well as soon as the belt started, our bags were the first the to come out onto the carousel. My parents and I grabbed our bags, and headed to customs while laughing.

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