Just goes to show you, don't count your chickens before they depart, or something like that.

About 10 minutes after I posted, the WC paged me and told me they didn't need my seat after all. ****. BUT, since I was nice enough to volunteer they were going to give me a "better seat". I waited breathlessly as the machine spat out my new boarding pass...2J.

Then when I got to AMS, I was the only person in the ES/Elite line while 100+ waited in the steerage line. My BP was the first seat in coach, 5C, so I wasn't complaining - it was actually an old C seat. My speedy line was of little use when the boarding pass machine promtply choked on it, causing all the gate staff to come over and stare at the offending BP while scratching their various heads. After a minute, one lady said, "Ohhh! alanw! Please wait one moment." Then she handed me a new BP for a Europe Select seat 2C.

This means I got (possibly the first ever?) DOUBLE WHAMMY - two op-upgrades in a single day.

I take back most of the bad things I said about NW after the "incident" in SIN a few months ago.



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-alan in sitges, home of Si-Do