You forgot about all the drinking during the day. The travel is the easy part. :p

I will be like Caesar in History of the World, More wine, more wine….

Not criticizing you or your grammar, but how did "Airbi" get started on FlyerTalk as the plural of "Airbus?" The plural form of "bus" is "buses," not "bi," so shouldn't it be "Airbuses?"

Afternoon Box. At ORD now, after a pretty darn good (for UA and Shuttle America) DFW-ORD flight on an EMB-170 in F. Only thing wrong with it was the plane was full of families with hyper little kids. They were cute, but rather loud. Of course that's to be expected when traveling at Thanksgiving I guess.

Next flight is ORD-CLT on a UA 735. I'm sure this flight won't be nearly as nice as the last. I seriously doubt that mainline UA can come through with a clean 735, working seats, and a happy, friendly crew that's in a good mood. Normally you'd expect a better experience from mainline than an express partner, but with UA, I've generally found to expect the opposite. :rolleyes:

Easy answer: it's probably not correct, strictly speaking.

But, the New England Patriots are known as the "Flying Elvii" because of the helmet graphics, and "Airbii" probably came somehow from that.

Try to use every component of your seat (including the audio jack). If anything's busted, you might as well get an Ecert out of it.

Two users to go until the new FM is complete - back to painting.

It is one of those things that happened on FT one day. No one knows why or how and few probably remember even when it started, but it gets propagated and people always ask. I think there was a discussion of it in the bmi forum a while back where they had a lot of Latin in the discussion, too.

On a slightly different note, www.ContinentalDO.com is now updated for DO IV. :cool:

I tried. And tried. And everything was working. Nothing was busted this time! And the crew was nice! And we were not only on time, but early! The 735's interior wasn't even really that busted up either! Where's the usual UA I've come to know and hate?

I had forgotten how much I liked the CLT atrium area between the concourses. I haven't set foot in this portion of the CLT terminal since this week in 1997, when my family and I traveled to the DC area for Thanksgiving on a US mistake fare (IAH-BWI round trip all in for around $95).

I've got a four hour layover, and plan on spending it here, since there's not anything but US lounges here, and I'm not forking over $40 for a day pass to a US lounge. This is probably much nicer anyway, with the trees, pianist, view of the planes (looking at the Piedmont 319 for the third time on this trip) and the mobile over the bar with the different flying machines.

Do/Thing/Meet IV FM is done, to date. The link, username, and password are in the other thread.

First college football post of the day: I had never seen a player hydroplane until I was surfing past the Florida-FSU game. One of the Gators gained about five yards that unfortunately didn't count.

If you are not going into one of the lounges, check out one of the rocking chairs. I really liked those when I was a US flyer and sometimes did not even go into the Club but just lazed in one of them.

Yep, I'm right by the rocking chairs. I'm not in one, since I'm on the laptop and have crap spread out all over the table (updating FlightMemory and a few other things) but it is nice over here. There's a very good pianist playing and she's helping to drown out the usual airport background noise.

FlightMemory is finally up to date again. I've been flying too much, and too busy, and haven't kept up with it.

Tonight's last flight will be flight number 725, and will add a new route (CLT-ATL) and a new plane (EMB-190).