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Originally Posted by colpuck (Post 13976165)

Cheaper than SEA-ANC which is around $575.00 for the fare dates. AS is the poster child for what happens with no competition.

Yuppers... And there are 20 flights/day on the route still in the summer!

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Originally Posted by Hartmann (Post 13975669)

Any Box recommendations for what to do with two days in ANC? I'm thinking of driving the Anton Memorial Tunnel to Whittier, but that's all I've come up with so far. Of course, there are a few breweries in ANC ;)

Denali is cool!! Talketna is a great place to get a ride to a Glazier! The railroad can be fun from what I saw of it! Glazier Bay is a nice drive and there is a famous steak house in the area. One of the new AS Boxers sould be able to provide name!

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Originally Posted by Hartmann (Post 13975801)

Thanks!! ^ Would you recommend the cruise or is driving enough?

Also, how late does the sun stay up this time of year? 10:30? I'd like to do some nighttime daylight driving range stuff, just for laughs.

Late and it is exhausting... also there is a famous fish house on the water in an office building that I cant remember.

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Originally Posted by FT Lurker (Post 13976223)

All I can say about teh AS folks is that they are good peeps. ^^

Finally made it back to my apt, and I am completely exhausted!

Sounds like they were!! I need to get up there and visit a friend!! May use my DL miles and do the milk run this year!!

Weekend specials on CO suck!

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Originally Posted by bdjohns1 (Post 13975934)

Collect your winnings and send me a cut:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vws16IsnW_g (edit: your payout is confirmed at 0:20 into the video)

You're exactly right - he said American was less dense than Whiz.

He pulled it up on his phone right after I posted this, and there was a witness to the loss. It has also been mentioned on Facebook.

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Originally Posted by colpuck (Post 13972046)

How to solve a united problem

1. Call.
2. Realize the person on the phone isn't going to help you.
3. Hang up.
4. Call back.
5. Finally solve the problem.

You have learned much....

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Originally Posted by jrzyshawn (Post 13974794)

What a :rolleyes: day at work today. I am just getting to check FT now :-:

I feel you :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by bdjohns1 (Post 13975940)

Exactly - even if you get all FTers, it's still not a statistically valid subset of the population. The only way to get meaningful data would be from UA. Of course, it wouldn't be scraped or anything. :)

It might be biased (over-abundance of TransCon and SFO-origin flights would be my intuition). You could clean that up by treating it as a non-response problem and weighting by route type, equipment, time, date to the known population values of UA flights. Then you'd still have to worry about whether there is a response bias due to getting/not getting the upgrade.

Which is why I don't worry about the :rolleyes: and just get on the plane.

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Originally Posted by colpuck (Post 13976030)

Is it crazy to fly half...well all of the way across the country to hang out with a person you've had a crush on for the last five years or so?

I can't answer the question, but I can help think about the problem.

TV(trip)=f(CPM,P(sex),Annoyance(if no sex))

Presumably it is everywhere decreasing in the first and third terms and increasing in the second, so form is easy. The parameters could be estimated sample of previous trips to see crushes, their outcomes, and a rating of your satisfaction with each. Can you provide such data?

Bet that post was helpful :cool:

Finishing the second glass of a relatively :rolleyes: white wine that was left over from the weekend. Must be time for sleep @:-)

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Originally Posted by Driving by DCA (Post 13976367)

Which is why I don't worry about the :rolleyes: and just get on the plane.

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Originally Posted by Driving by DCA (Post 13976367)

I can't answer the question, but I can help think about the problem.

TV(trip)=f(CPM,P(sex),Annoyance(if no sex))

Bet that post was helpful :cool:

We found another passable UA person. :cool:

Succumbing to pure exhaustion....

Gnite Box

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Originally Posted by adelauro (Post 13975889)

Private Benjamin?

Good evening, Box

Ding ding ding. :-:

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Originally Posted by Phudnik (Post 13975899)

Like "defatigable"? That's the best I can do now.

That'll suffice too. ^

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Originally Posted by beckoa (Post 13976295)

Yuppers... And there are 20 flights/day on the route still in the summer!

Very :rolleyes:.

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Originally Posted by FT Lurker (Post 13976379)

Succumbing to pure exhaustion....

Gnite Box

Evenin' :D

Looks like I'll be taking a breather from the BR for a night :D

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Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 13976377)

We found another passable UA person. :cool:

I wouldn't go that far quite yet...;)

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Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 13976389)

Ding ding ding. :-:

Yeah... FT Lurker's phone kept buzzin in the BR from teh box's bb program. :p

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Originally Posted by Driving by DCA (Post 13976413)

I wouldn't go that far quite yet...;)

64 posts... hasn't been completely corrupted yet ;)

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Originally Posted by colpuck (Post 13975778)

Your :rolleyes: of the day.

http://www.airliners.net/aviation-fo....main/4812451/

The linked conversation is one that took place between human beings who are, unless I missed a memo, still allowed to procreate.

That is a depressing fact to see in print.

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Originally Posted by Driving by DCA (Post 13976367)

You have learned much....

I can't answer the question, but I can help think about the problem.

TV(trip)=f(CPM,P(sex),Annoyance(if no sex))

Presumably it is everywhere decreasing in the first and third terms and increasing in the second, so form is easy. The parameters could be estimated sample of previous trips to see crushes, their outcomes, and a rating of your satisfaction with each. Can you provide such data?

Bet that post was helpful :cool:

I have a very low CPM, TY AS, I can't really speak to the 2nd, The third is quite low as I am doing something I have been really into doing for a while. So I am thinking this is going to be a positive event.