The Consolidated ANC Meet-Up Thread
 

***Records Moved to Wikipost Above***

Since so many people visited ANC due to the cheap East Coast-ANC fare on UA and expressed interest in gathering for drinks or even just airport atrium-dos, and I couldn't keep track of them in my head (and would have otherwise forgotten about one or two, leaving those people sitting at the airport waiting for me), I created a list of those coming so I could keep everything straight. And I figured I'd publish it here so people can post changes or corrections (or additions!).

Thus was born the Consolidated ANC Meet-Up Thread. You'll find we're a friendly bunch who love to find any excuse to get together, and the steady stream of people visiting Alaska on mileage runs or--gasp--even real vacations provides ample opportunity to converse over a drink or Moose's Tooth gourmet pizza.

(Please join us so I can list you in my List of FlyerTalk Members You Have Already Met In Person!)

Please note that I, jackal, have since moved out of ANC (although I do return frequently). I still monitor this thread, but if you need to contact a local, please consult the wikipost above or send a message to FlyerTalk Ambassador and local ANC resident beckoa.

Thanks for posting this ANC meet up thread!

If this Do is for Saturday June 7, I'd like to be added to this one, there will also be two other FT'ers on the same run as I, I can only assume they too will be up for a drink.

I Arrive: ANC 21:30 Depart: ANC 23:40 so I think I could squeak in a drink or two^:)

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I'm commandeering my second post in this thread to handle the older material so as to avoid cluttering up Post #1. The original material remains at the bottom of this post. Here we go:


Historical Record (so people can remember who they met!)

• Date: 5/10/08 Visitors: rwk32882, kkjay77; Hosts: jackal, BOB W
• Date: 5/23/08 Visitors: PVDProf Hosts: jackal
• Date: 5/24/088 Visitors: GoingAway, SeeYa, ironmanjt, rtarbuck, JohnSydney2000 Hosts: jackal, BOB W, rwinn
• Date: 5/24/08 Visitors: GoingAway, FlyinHawaiian, anc-ord772, bk3day, as219, ironmanjt; Hosts: None! (We were all stuck at the Bear Tooth)
• Date: 5/25/08 Location: Henry's; Visitors: SeeYa, FlyinHawaiian; Hosts: BOB W
• Date: 6/1/08 Location: Double Musky; Visitors: iflyfish; Hosts: jackal
• Date and time: 6/3/08, 5:15pm Location: Peanut Farm; Visitors: aSiAnRiCk +1; Hosts: jackal, BOB W
• Date and time: 6/3/08, 8:30pm Location: Humpy's; Visitors: superscot; Hosts: jackal
• Date and time: 6/7/08, 1:30pm Location: Orso Ristorante; Visitors: superscot; Hosts: jackal, BOB W
• Date and time: Saturday, 6/7/08, 7:30pm Location: ANC South Terminal--Upper One bar; Visitors: Global_Hi_Flyer, steve32, superscot; Hosts: jackal
• Date and time: Saturday 6/7/08 9:40p-11:55p Location: ANC South Terminal--Upper One bar (to right of UA ticket counter); Visitors: Ripper3785, Sweet Willie, g_leyser, Mikey likes it, ORDflyr, Plainsman, SeeYa, cordelli +1 (on the way out); Hosts: jackal, BOB W, BillScann
• Date: 6/8/08 5pm Location: Double Musky Inn, Girdwood; Visitors: bk3day; Hosts: jackal
• Date: 6/9/08 7pm Location: Simon and Seafort's (just for the halibut!); Visitors: jan_az, bk3day; Hosts: jackal, beckoa
• Date: 6/10/08 early morning Multi-Meet-Up Breakfast Edition; Visitors: jan_az, Ingy; Hosts: We were all sleeping...
• Date and time: 7/6/08, noon Location: F Street Station (for Eggs Benedict)...they were good!; Visitor: rtarbuck; Host: jackal
• Date and time: 8/24/08, 4pm Location: Moose's Tooth Pizzeria (mmm...Blackened Halibut pizza and a Hard Apple Ale...); Visitors: Nicholas; Hosts: jackal, beckoa
• Date and time: 10/15/08 Location: AS MP MVPG Breakfast, Costco #63, AS MP MVPG Lunch, & ANC BR (yes, beckoa is an AS nerd... :p); Visitors: missydarlin; Hosts: beckoa, akdude (some events)
• Date and time: 10/18/08 Location: Bear Tooth; Visitors: davew-krdm; Hosts: beckoa
• Date: 11/14/08 Location: Long Branch Saloon; Visitors: sc flier; Hosts: AKronin, BillScann, BOB W
• Date: 11/20/08 Location: Moose's Tooth; Visitors: sc flier; Hosts: AKronin, beckoa, BillScann (briefly), jackal (briefly)
• Date: 12/22/08 Post-Winter Solstice "The Days Are Getting Longer!" DO; Location: Casa de BOB W (PM for directions); Hosts: BOB W, beckoa, jackal, AKronin, ANC RED-EYE, BillScann; Visitors: None
• Dates: 3/13/09-3/19/09 Alaskan Spring Break Do; Location: ANC/FAI; Hosts: vysean, jackal, BOB W; Visitors: monitor + Frannie, SeeYa
• Dates: 6/21/09 (lunch at Glacier BrewHouse) http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/commu...ravaganza.html; Hosts: jackal, BOB W, AKronin, Seat 2A; Visitors: mersk862
• Date: 10/14/09 http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/commu...ob-w-7p-m.html; Hosts: BOB W, jackal, beckoa, AKronin, ANC RED-EYE, alphaeagle; Visitors: missydarlin, Rick Rasmussen, Eric Dunham
• Date and time: Saturday, 11/28/09, 12:00-3:00pm Free Admission to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center! Itinerary: lunch at Club Paris or ORSO (the latter has a phenomenal budget-priced, gourmet-quality lunch menu!) Muse, the Marx Bros. cafe at Rasmuson Center followed by a tour of the newly remodeled Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, which is having free admission that weekend during a local arts show); Confirmed: jackal, BOB W, Seat 2A
• Date: 12/22/09 Up In The Air screening; jackal, Major G, stellertony, Ruthalaska +1
• 12/31/09 7:30pm 2009-2010 Fireworks Under the Midnight [Lack Of] Sun Do; dinner of Beef Bourgignon a la Julia Child, accompanied by toasted soy nuts, potatoes, a cheese platter, dinner rolls, cheese puffs, sun-dried tomato and mozzarella salad with vinaigrette, teriyaki meatballs, rice krispie treats, lemon pie, liquor-filled chocolates, and, of course, a flight of fine red wines from the Columbia River Valley and Maui. (There may have been a shot of Kirkland Signature tequila añejo 100% blue agave in there. ;)). Attendees: BOB W, jackal, beckoa, AKronin, Ruthalaska, golfingboy +1, AKscotty
• Date: 3/12-3/14/10 2010 Spring Break Do II!, Anchorage and Homer, Alaska; jackal, vysean, SeeYa+1, lili, KLC, aviationkiwi, CDKing, aanswer, hausrath+1; part-time participants: beckoa, BOB W, AKronin (plus a longer-than-normal visit from BillScann)
• Date: 4/13/10, black bean and caribou soup at Casa de Bob W with vino de Rioja y Salamanca, compliments of beckoa. Attendees: BOB W, jackal, beckoa, AKronin, alphaeagle
• Date: 5/15/10; location: ANC post-security; visitors: FT Lurker, Steve Gadfly; hosts: jackal, beckoa
• Date: 5/16/10; location: ANC Board Room, Casa de AKronin; visitors: FT Lurker; hosts: beckoa, AKronin, jackal
• Date: 5/18/10; location: Casa de BOB W; visitors: Jazon256; hosts: jackal, BOB W, beckoa, AKronin, BillScann
• Date: 6/25/10; location: Casa de BOB W; visitors: Valveman +1; hosts: jackal, BOB W, beckoa, AKronin +1, ANC RED-EYE, Jazon256
• Date: 7/1/10; location: Glacier BrewHouse; visitors: name withheld +1; l'etoile, ORDGuy79; hosts: beckoa, jackal, ANC RED-EYE
• Date: 7/18/10; location: ANC Board Room; hosts: beckoa, BOB W, jackal, ANC RED-EYE, AKronin
• Date: 7/25/10 Salmon Spectactular ANC Meetup; location: Casa de BOB W; visitors: SeeYa, MXS, FortFun; hosts: beckoa, BOB W, jackal, AKronin +1, Jazon256 +1, alphaeagle
  
  (The following needs some clean-up--apologies)
  
  http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/commu...7-29-30-a.html
  See thread for details
  
  August
  8/17-8/17: lucky9876coins: UA xxx at 1:15pm, leaving UA xxx at 2pm
  8/17-8/18: HeathrowGuy: CO 407 at 6:53pm
  8/17-8/19: bk3day: UA XXX at 10:30pm
  8/18-8/21: UAPremierExec gets more sleep at the Mattress Ranch! ;)
  8/20-???: tmartazu arrives at 7pm; BOB W proposes dinner Friday night
  
  September
  9/3-9/4: cova
  9/?-9/?: Labor Day Weekend "Teh CO Fare" Visitation; visitors: Anglo Large Clawed Otter, FT Lurker, Hartmann, sdm1130, Steve GadFly; hosts: jackal, beckoa
  9/13-9/21: starlanet
  9/18-9/18: FriendlySkies: UA xxx at 6:33pm, departing 8:08pm

Date: 12/3/10; location: ANC and Leroy's Restaurant; visitors: travelingsalesgal, EasternTraveler, thomas3633; hosts: jackal

October 2011:
MsEverywhere, nytracon, and honeytoes all in town the first couple days of October (apparently all three ended up meeting)

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Duly added! Please spread the word about this thread to others coming to ANC. I also need to send PMs to the people listed here to tell them to check this thread and make any necessary corrections, too--will try to do that this evening.

That's me. And Willie has assumed correctly :D

jackal, BOB W, rwk32882, and kkjay77 enjoyed a drink at the Upper One bar tonight. Thanks to those who showed up! This DO celebrated the first time rwk32882 and kjay77 have ever spent 100% of the money they've spent on the ground on a trip on alcohol! (Alaskan Amber, nonetheless!) Bob and I are happy to be known as the enablers of said feat...

See you guys around--keep an eye out for my FT luggage tags!

I'm the third, along with Sweet Willie and g_leyser. And I'm in.

Looking forward to meet you bro ^

ps: ... and thanks again for you know what ;)

Hi jackal, and thanks for all the coordinating! ^

I'm in for the 5/24 "Post Mileage Run Do #2 Lobby DO" :D

And I'll be back on 6/14-15, scheduled to arrive at 11:51 pm, leaving next morning at 7:30 am. My hope is to standby for the earlier flight out of SFO so that I'll have a real evening in ANC, but we'll see.

Anyone else on #123 on the 14th? :cool:

Hey, just noticed this! Thanks for putting it together Jackal!

Since it looks like a number of us are on the June 9 outbound, maybe we should meet up at a bar or lounge pre-departure on the 9th? We're on the 2PM flight to SFO.

I'm personally +2, my wife and 3 y/o son are joining me and we're making a mini-vacation out of it. We don't have any serious plans yet, so we would also be up for dinner one of those nights...

OK, well, I'm packing (last minute, natch) for my flight to DEN right now and have to head off to work soon (leaving straight from work), so I'll have to coordinate everything later. Feel free to make any executive decisions without me--I'm extremely flexible and will just post whatever you guys want to do.

As far as airport meets, keep in mind UA flies into the A concourse, which has its own security gate and nothing of note behind security. Outside of security (and just down the hall from the A security) is the Upper One bar, which is where Bob, rwk32882, kjay77 and I met. Then, a three-minute walk away is the B/C concourse security gates, behind which is the AS Board Room, which Bob can get to (and maybe me, if I spring for a BR membership in the near future), and also Chili's--however, no one's tested out whether the wonderful, happy folks at TSA will let UA ticket-holders past B/C security, as there are no longer any UA gates there.

jackal, what a good idea to consolidate the list. ^

As for the following:
Unconfirmed Mileage Run Do #2.5 Dinner
Date and time: Sunday, May 25, TBD
Location: TBD
Visitors: SeeYa, FlyinHawaiian (unconfirmed)
Hosts: TBD (jackal will be out of town)

FlyinHawaiian and I are driving back from Seward that evening, so did consider stopping for dinner along the way(as per your suggestion).
If no one else is available, we may very well do that instead of rushing back to the airport.

Ah--didn't know you were driving back from Seward that day--I was operating on what GoingAway had said about you two potentially doing something Sunday because you would still be here (and it would be less rushed than the Saturday night gig we're doing). But if you're coming back from Seward, it would probably be better to go ahead and stop for dinner on the way than to rush back for what would in effect be a duplication of Saturday night.

...unless you wanted to combine the two: do dinner at the Double Musky in Girdwood (spectacular Cajun-influenced food) or one of the other good restaurants down there and turn it into a DO! I'm sure an ANC FTer or two (or even some of the Girdwood-based FTers we have!) would be thrilled to join you there. I sure would if I weren't going to be 2,500 miles away!

Post back with your ideas/plans and I'll update the thread as needed.

Thanks for the help.

SeeYa and I will probably be leaving Seward around 6 p.m., I think. What time does it get dark this time of the year; after 9?

Another ^ for putting this together

If my plans hold, I get in late on June 5th, and wil drive down to Seward on June 6th after breakfast (unless you tell me there's a better eatery on the road ;) )

I'll be back in ANC late Sun night June 8 (probably staying at the Marriott Downtown) and will be taking in sights close to town and flying out late on Mon June 9th (11:30 or 50ish??? PM).

So I'm definitely up for a June 9th dinner or whatever :)

looking forward to seeing AK and fellow FTers

p.s. For all you on MEM Weekend ANC runs, don't forget to join us at the May 25 SFO mini DEQM Do :D
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...378&highlight=

It gets dark around 10:30. You should be back long before that. The Double Musky in Girdwood is great. I highly recommend it also.

When are your flights out?