Originally Posted by camachinist
Yup, another chance to polish up on the "speech"
Heck, buy my wife a few drinks in the RCC and she'll be sitting in the cockpit
I was a nervous flyer just like your wife and I broke the cycle by flying solo to Africa for a safari. Everything from 16 hours on a 747 to bush planes. I came back unafraid, especially after flying a bush plane which flies off a cliff to gain altitude, since there's not enough room for normal take-off
Pat
I did try to get us a second seat in C, but by the time they called me up, they had already boarded everyone and filled up the whole C cabin. I lost out on that one several years ago, but I scored big in a similar situation last year.
My wife and I were returning from London (same PNR that time), but her sister was also returning with us, but on a different PNR since she was going to IAD and we were coming back home to DEN. At the gate, my wife was the first one of us to get her boarding pass, and when she found out we were in C, she mentioned that her sister was also on the flight. Somehow, she managed to talked them into putting all three of us in C, and we ended up with an entire row in the middle section of a 777.
It turned out to be a good move on United's part. Since that experience, both my wife and her sister have become die-hard United fans; on the flight back, they were already calculating how many more trips they would need to reach 2P.
My wife made it by a couple hundred miles this year. I hated to tell them that op up's aren't that common (especially for 2P's), but at least it's easier for me to convince my wife to go along with some of my more "creative" EQM-earning routings.