She's Italian?

I have a non-desperate reason for wanting to match on your dots on FM - I really want to go to FMN for a shooting school. Problem is he's such a small-town operation that I worry he'll cancel the class.

I'm actually interested in doing some of Big Sky Airlines' more obscure Montana/Idaho routes.

My other half doesn't even understand what "TravelBank" means. I've tried to explain it but he's like "You're in charge of that stuff." Fortunately he does get the concept of a VDB, and he was quick to tell me that it was fine to get home two hours late last Friday evening to get the $400 Delta was offering me.

He still doesn't quite grasp the concept of airline alliances, to the point that I've explained about three times now why and how our UA flights recently were credited to his existing US account, rather than him opening another frequent flier account with UA. The whole concept of having 15,000 miles in one account versus 10,000 miles in one and 5,000 in the other confuses the poor guy. Unfortunately he's the king of orphan miles; he's got multiple accounts with less than 10,000 miles in them, and in some cases, where if he had understood how alliances work, he could have just a couple of accounts with usable balances. At least we're now able to consolidate his DL and NW accounts into one, making those 2,500 NW miles more useful. But then there's his CO account, opened for a flight he bought on CO last year, that could have easily been credited to his DL account — and had he done that, he would have had enough DL MQMs to have Silver status with DL this year. :rolleyes:

As a result of all that I have a document on my computer with all of his loyalty account numbers and passwords, and have been put in charge of figuring out how to manage it all.

We're both so blond that we could pass for Northern Italian mountain people or rogue Norwegians. (I'm mostly Polish and she's mostly Irish, which basically means that our children won't be able to go out in the sun without incinerating.)

He may not be trainable. You may just have to take over that portion of his life for his own good.

I have mine done too. It sure is tough not spending all that cash on somthing shiny and flashy :p

I need to get mine in order. I wish I could do them myself, but some working interests that I bought in oil/gas wells a few years back (which then went bust :rolleyes:) have complicated my tax returns to the point that I need an accountant.

Kind of reminds me of when I took my then-girlfriend on a MR (well, a day trip) to TUS with me. I tried to explain that a 5:30a departure followed by a redeye was a bit grueling. She just laughed it off and said she would be fine.

She ended up completely passed out on a row of chairs in the gate area about two hours before our red eye was scheduled to depart. She now understands why I am tired after getting home from a multi-transcon MR. :)

Twitter = everyone thinks they're important. :rolleyes:

Um, yeah, good luck with that, my friend. Their last flight was on March 8, 2008.

However, Great Lakes did take over most of their routes, and is flying their little Beech 1900s all over Montana out of BIL now.

re: VDB - I finally got mine to understand that, and there are three open seats on our BWI-IAH flight, and another option does exist that will get us to SEA if we bump in BWI (praise to the Bump Gods!)...but the voucher amount has to be good in order for her to be in the airport for another 2 hours. :rolleyes:

We too have a shared document with all of the passwords and such, but ours thankfully is much easier. We're both, for the moment, only CO and HH whores.

Wait, I'm not important?! :mad:



:p

OIC. :o