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Old Sep 9, 2014, 10:23 pm
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What date are you flying?

jchilders September 24, 2014 DTW RT

1stclassFashion, su9062, kyunbit, redtigeriii September 27, 2014 DTW RT

1stclassFashion September 30, 2014 DTW RT

jchilders October 1, 2014 DTW RT

su9062 October 4, 2014 DTW RT

su9062 October 7, 2014 DTW RT

su9062 October 8, 2014 DTW RT

PDXPremier +1 October 10, 2014 DTW RT

WikiHNL, su9062, kyunbit, LauraBlum, charliew24, Mr_Tudball, kwl747 October 11, 2014 DTW RT

dave1013 + 1 October 12, 2014 SEA-DTW

1stclassFashion October 14, 2014 DTW RT

slopeboy40+1 October 15, 2014 DTW RT

slopeboy40+1 October 16, 2014 DTW RT

dgreen12, United757 October 18, 2014 DTW RT

dave1013 + 1 October 19, 2014 DTW-SEA

beckoa October 21, 2014 DTW RT

United757 October 23, 2014 DTW RT

redtigeriii October 25, 2014 SEA-DTW

dave1013, the42ndstate+1 October 25, 2014 DTW RT

slopeboy40+1 October 26, 2014 DTW RT

slopeboy40+1 October 27, 2014 DTW RT, redtigeriii DTW-SEA

United757, redtigeriii. pjleitch October 28, 2014 DTW RT

redtigeriii, pjleitch October 29, 2014 DTW RT

United757 October 30, 2014 DTW RT

SamuelS October 31, 2014 DTW RT,

uaflr Oct. 31 SEA-DTW RT
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Old Sep 30, 2014, 10:47 am
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Originally Posted by croakz
Maybe it's because I mainly do trips up and down the coast, but I was surprised at how much food they served in F on this flight.
From what I've heard, this route is catered as a trans con which gets the menu, 3 courses, and warm nuts....I'll know for sure next month
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Old Sep 30, 2014, 11:03 am
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Sooo tempting. I have NEVER run before but this will tank me off for MVP next year. At a cost of $345.00 RT from PDX it is so tempting. The flight is in my cart. Leave PDX at 7:30 am and home in my own bed by 10pm.
You should do it. It was a pretty easy turn in DTW...same plane, didn't even have to leave the gate area on arrival. It was my first mileage run as well.

Originally Posted by drc1912
Can anyone confirm if there is wifi available on this route?

Thanks!
Yes there is wifi on it.
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Old Sep 30, 2014, 11:06 am
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You should do it. It was a pretty easy turn in DTW...same plane, didn't even have to leave the gate area on arrival. It was my first mileage run as well.



Yes there is wifi on it.
There is wifi but not necessarily power. On wife's and my first DTW turn, we were on a -900 that didn't have the juice. Being in F, though, the digeplayer kept us suitably occupied both ways.

Hope the content is updated for next F turn in October.
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Old Sep 30, 2014, 11:16 am
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I will not be in costume for my first ever mileage run on Oct 31. Here goes nothing... and solid for MVP next year.
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Old Sep 30, 2014, 11:24 am
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Originally Posted by drc1912
Can anyone confirm if there is wifi available on this route?

Thanks!
There was on 9/27. According to http://www.alaskaair.com/content/tra...ravelInfo-wifi the only planes that don't have wifi are some of the 737-400s which I'm pretty sure can't fly that route.
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Old Sep 30, 2014, 12:20 pm
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Originally Posted by drc1912
Can anyone confirm if there is wifi available on this route?

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It's available. But it seemed way more unusable than other flights I've been on. It was even tough web browsing and using work email.
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Old Sep 30, 2014, 4:41 pm
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Originally Posted by drc1912
Can anyone confirm if there is wifi available on this route?

Thanks!
It's available. But it seemed way more unusable than other flights I've been on. It was even tough web browsing and using work email.
How close to Canada did you fly?
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Old Sep 30, 2014, 5:50 pm
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How close to Canada did you fly?
Had a similar experience. Fllightaware for that day says we were nowhere near it.
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Old Sep 30, 2014, 5:56 pm
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I fly SEA->SFO and back most weeks, and the wifi is similarly bad. I guess I know what I will be getting!
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Old Sep 30, 2014, 9:22 pm
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Did anyone purchase a seat on the new SEA-DTW that actually WANTS to go to DTW?
Fwiw, I was on sea-dtw today and the upgrade list was probably 19 for 2 seats, I think. No power and wifi was passable, but definitely slow at times. Wish I had time to do four of them and make 75k.
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Old Oct 2, 2014, 12:42 pm
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Wifi was insanely slow on my 9/26 flight, and no juice either direction (9/28 return). I actually stayed in Detroit for a couple days with some nice weather. Unfortunately my double eqm aren't posting. Le sigh...
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Old Oct 2, 2014, 12:44 pm
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Please allow four to six weeks for miles to be credited to your Mileage Plan™ account.
I guess I should have read that first...
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Old Oct 2, 2014, 1:03 pm
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Mine posted late yesterday, so about four days basically.
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Old Oct 2, 2014, 1:53 pm
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How was the SEA-DTW FTer party on the 27th? (last Saturday)
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Old Oct 2, 2014, 2:48 pm
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Originally Posted by PDXPremier
How was the SEA-DTW FTer party on the 27th? (last Saturday)
Boring

More seriously, I heard some people behind me talking about flying for mileage reason but didn't chat with anyone else. Maybe I don't look flyertalky enough? I don't have an FT hat or anything.

(New shirt idea: "Will fly for miles". Seems like it must have been done before)
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