superangrypenguin

What did the guy call it in the video again? You were cheating on AC by flying UA?

Stranger things have happened in life, but if I go to AC, it wouldn't be voluntary. You know, unvested stock, a huge salary cut etc. I have Mrs. SAP to pay for (OK I jest to the last part b/c she's awesome, but one gets the premise...I have "life" to pay for)

24left

Hilarious.
Anyone placing bets?

YOWgary

I'm going to have to come off the road eventually...

yultraveler

Well I think most of us here work in IT. It would be the perfect occasion to improve AC IT.

But I think a more likely scenario if we all end up on Dateline is something along those lines.

Interviewer: "Can you explain how a bunch of AC frequent flyer all ended in a Mexican jail?"

"It all started with AC's EYW contest awarding a lot of wings for travel to Mexico City and Cancun. One of us found a mistake fare that allowed for cheap travel between those two cities via Toronto. Apparently this was considered cabotage and the authorities got involved at the airport. The agent in charge of explaining the situation confused cabotage with sabotage and that's how we all ended up in jail."

canadiancow

I didn't pay for the UA flight.

tracon

Starting at 18:40, did he say "altitude members, those that we've been downing and dumping?"

okazon69

No. He said those that would be "Medallion on Delta".

I find his speech and the message it broadcasts to be very condescending, but that, I suppose, goes along with all the recent changes to the program.

100,000miler

I do not get it either and it does not get me. Just registered giving them all my vital info and it did not even recognize my SE status which should have started me off with 500 wings.

I think this is just crap. I have far better things to do with my life.

alc

Spend last 2 days making all the bookings (total 9) and end up spending $500 more than I planned.

Found a major error in my calculation/formula during the planning phase in the middle of all my bookings, thought about call in and cancel them all and re-calculate. But decided to continue, hence, I hope I will be rank between 11 to 20. So for those of you calculating all these manually on Excel - Triple-Check all your calculation/formula!!!

But the major problem was that links of the itineraries that I build on Google Flights were not bookable. All of them got an error after entering the credit card numbers. I was be able to re-produce this error with BMO Rewards booking site as well. It will show up a very cheap itinerary, but when you click to book it, it will tell you the flights are no longer available.

Used up all my Air Canada gift cards collected via various promo in recent years, all my BMO Rewards points, and a 10% AC discount code that I got earlier this year.

I am not in my early 20s any more, so I know I can't do one big trip like CC & DC did. Therefore, I have 2 trips. Trip 1 starting with a late flight from YYZ on Tues and return to YYZ early morning on Sat. Spend the weekend at home to recharge. Trip 2 will start with a early morning flight at YYZ on Mon and return to YTZ mid-afternoon on Fri and take Go-Train home.

I will re-qualify for dDiamond with this promo even if I am not top 20 and with all the planned Business trip, I should be able to make SE for the 2nd time. In time to book my EU trip next Summer, i.e. SE no YQ mean AC direct flights. This is one of the major reason for me to do this Wings Run, save on YQ with AP bookings.

Now, I need to work on my lists in Altitude Community

yvr76

You forgot to mention how you are a long standing SE and MM like you do every other post.

The badges don't show up immediately. The next time they sweep, you'll get it. Keep in mind this promo is restricted to Altitude members so everyone will get the Altitude badge.

biglinguist

I think you're reading it right. You would also have two extra YXEs toward your next prairie badges.

biglinguist

Oh, okay, I thought it was just me. It worked fine a few days earlier, but since Thursday, no luck. Hope they fix that soon!

canopus27

How frequently (and rapidly) are others seeing their flights, post to EYW? I'm used to AC flights taking 3-4 days to show up on the Altitude site, but I was kind of expecting flights & badges to show up on EYW at about the same rate & pace.

Right now, my only flights showing on EYW are from April 27/28, despite the fact that I've taken 8 flights since then, 4 of which *are* showing on Altitude. I'm not in a panic, but it seems excessively far behind ...

Are y'all seeing the same thing?

canadiancow

In the past, it's updated roughly once a week.

Geoflying

That was really interesting. So we now know that Cow and Cargo are both Killers