I heard it in the distance but it never got too bad over by me.

"Why is the flight to Newark so delayed?! I called my friend who lives in Pittsburgh and he says the weather is fine! I'm never flying this airline again!"

I never said I was bothered on a personal level. I'm bothered on a business level. Being part of an alliance in the game carries with it the expectation that you won't drive down pricing on a route that fellow members have as hub routes...I wouldn't be cheesed in the least had you kept a higher fare and not forced mine down. I'm sure if I caused your loads to drop on something like JFK-LAS you would think the same.

Thanks. I'm going in with the explanation that both trips are non-refundable and were planned well in advance. Every time I've said that I have run into hardly any :rolleyes:.

Roxy is going nuts here tonight. Running all through the house barking everytime it thunders.

"And I fully understand that it will be unpaid time."

I wrote a part about early the next day and me passing out in Rolov's room.

G'night all....Ms GadFly and I are off to go watch last Thursday's CSI

YHPM

I wonder if we heard the same ENORMOUS thunderclap...the house definitely shook, and I could have sworn I heard something go "pop" (in the electrical sort of fashion) downstairs. Didn't lose power, though. I don't think I've had lightning and thunder so close in a while!

I'm already booked. In a nice low nonrefundable fare bucket.

There is no password.

The name is Italian influenced, but the operation is much more domestic than foriegn - I have 6 A320 and 1 A300 as compared to 16 737's, 6 757's and 3 767's. The A320's were bought cheap to get FCO up and running faster, and I'm not opposed to switching them over to Boeing if someone would mass purchase all 6.

Good add, yeah. Didn't say it but was thinking it.

ALCO's epic failure part VI: The last chapter
 

Where last I left you readers, ALCO had just parted ways from us at the Museum and was headed back to the pulitzer for a nap. The FT crew embeds themselves in the Marriott lounge to spend some time discussing dinner. Reservations are made and abandoned. XYZZY is stuck in bed with some sort of stomach thing.

Apparently Dan was trying to manipulate the marriott points system and has a room in the Marriott, though he is staying with J.ed at the airport. Well the Marriott maids see that room has not been used and check Dan out. Dan complains and gets the room back, which he gives to me.

Finally the FT crew, consisting of yours truly, CO1E, Rolov, Dan, Jonathan, and J.Ed finally make the decision to wander the streets till we see something good. We actually see an Italian place that looks inviting so we go in. Dan starts on about some type of fish, it came out whole and mostly unboned but it looked amazing. Rolov and I had pasta, J.Ed a steak, Jonathan had the same fish, and I can't remember what CO1E had. The place had limited service but free unlimited bread (which from my understanding is rare in Europe).

When walking back to the hotel, we get the text to end all Texts

ALCO
Throwing up in a canal, going back to bed.

WHAT?????, ALCO whimps out of his own party??? TWO WORDS ALCO, MAN and UP.

Well we want to drink and we were in the suburban area of Amsterdam.

First we find a decent belgium beer bar. Beers were 3.5 euro each so fairly reasonable. This guy who looks straight out of ATL walks in. I start talking to him because I want to make fun of him. Turns out he is a rapper and a pretty good freestyleist and very personable. Turns out also I am jerk.

That being said there would be a guy would be even more a jerk. This couple shows up and the guy asks us are "are you all from Nebraska." Ordinarily that seems like a normal question to ask americans on tour, but this dude (who was clearly american was trying to score with the naive american chick he was with. He then proceeded to say something to CO1E, which set him off. Dude do not us my friends or me as way to chase US undergrad tail. Sorry, unless you brought a girl for me, I will not be the butt of your jokes.

J.Ed + Dan split while the rest of us head for Casablanca and some karaoke. I of course want to do my favorite song, Rick Astley's "never going to give you up." Rolov threatens violence to put an end to that idea. Nobody in our group is singing. We keep drinking.

We leave the bar and make our way back to the Marriott. At this point Dan and J.ed split with Rolov heading back to the Pulitzer. It is just CO1E and me. The coffee shops are closed, the bars are closed. I try to do some business on the street. Yeah it fails. CO1E grabs some beers from the mini-bar and we use my room to just shoot the $hit till 6:30am when I have to go to the airport.

Again I spend the night away from my luggage

At 6:20 I get a text from Rolov, leaving for AMS got your .... meet at train
Well I was on my way to the Pulitzer. I head for the train station, I miss rolovs train by about 2 min. I finally make it to the airport and get my bags and my BP.

Eh? I had never heard of Pei Wei until just now and I randomly drove by one this evening.

It's not worth stopping in?

Pappadeux's was stellar this evening. They were out of Fat Tire but the crawfish bisque and pepper shimp were ^. People watching was also first class.

Speaking of first class, I won't be sitting in such flying back across the country. :mad: At least I snagged the reclining exit row on a 752. :rolleyes:

What is with the UA people in that forum? :rolleyes:

AMEX just sent me another letter.

Atrocious grammar aside, AMEX can pound sand. I had an account in good standing and they canceled it because I hadn't used it in the last six months.