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The Man in Seat 9A
AUS-LAX. Row 8 aisle on an A320....Pre-departure, purser worked his way through first thanking 1ks (no GS preboards) and then looked at his phone and looked up at me. He said the captain wanted to see me in the cockpit because this was my million mile flight. I said I thought that wasn't for another 4 days, he said no, says so right here. Who am I to argue?....
The miles counter in the app and online said 997,771 before I left Austin and both read 999,513 now after AUS-LAX-SFO credited. I had lots of plan changes this week, and was originally supposed to cross the threshold on the day of this flight, but never on this flight. I will be interested to see what happens when I actually cross next week, I suspect nothing, which is just fine. I am a happy camper.
Flew the actual million mile flight SFO-SEA. After boarding, seat 1F, a gate agent came on and asked me to come out to the jetway, he had a goodie bag for me with a travel mug, a pen, the printed card from Scott Kirby. and a card signed by SFO ground staff. The captain gave me a card with the flight number on it and congratulations. I asked the captain for a weight and balance or flight plan, he gave me an ACARS printout and signed it with the flight number.
None of the gifts were dupes from before, so I got an amazing double celebration. After the safety a the flight attendant announced that I was crossing a million miles and announced my name (could have done without that). When I got to the hotel in SEA, I logged in to /mystatus and got the congratulations message from Luc Bondar and was able to instantly nominate my companion.
All in all it was a lot more than I was expecting. I wonder if I'll get the lucite plaque, that would be nice, but I've got plenty to frame and remember it by.