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Originally Posted by Olton Hall (Post 11794478)

I think every Hilton and HGI I've stayed at in the past year has sent me an e-mail in the past 24 hours trying to get me to come back.

Don't go to Hilton AMS. :mad:

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Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 11794494)

Don't go to Hilton AMS. :mad:

are you going to share with us what the issue with the place is, or have you already done so and in the box blitzes that occur I missed it ;)

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Originally Posted by Steph3n (Post 11794522)

or have you already done so and in the box blitzes that occur I missed it ;)

That one.

My dad also has horror stories about the Hilton AMS. Not going there.

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Originally Posted by Steph3n (Post 11794522)

are you going to share with us what the issue with the place is, or have you already done so and in the box blitzes that occur I missed it ;)

I posted some of it from the BB while I was there. I'll look for the answer I received from the GM and post it.

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Originally Posted by Steph3n (Post 11794296)

hrmmmm middle seat........$100.....drink chits.....um no :)

Sorry I would not have taken it, because it would punish me AND my two seat mates. ;)

I usually don't ask men since there are size issues with middle seats. But the two that I had to move had no choice in the matter. I had to get this mother and her three kids together. I just told the two that we were moving that they had a choice: take the voucher outside of the plane or board, get moved by force and receive nothing.....they were both smart and took the voucher before getting on.

I hate doing this stuff but this woman had three kids under the age of 5.

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Originally Posted by CO 1E (Post 11793551)

The Amtrak I am on hit a deer and we have been stuck for 20 minutes while they have been checking for damage.

I didn't know Amtrak trains were fast enough to be damaged by deer (or cause damage to deer).

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Originally Posted by jrzyshawn (Post 11793579)

NEWARK, May 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Global Century Airways (NYSE: GCA) today announced that it will temporarily cease its daily nonstop flights between its Newark hub at Newark-Liberty International Airport and the following destinations: Jacksonville, Houston, Orlando, Las Vegas and San Francisco.

Need to tell your PR firm that a EWR hub is necessarily located at EWR. ;)

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Originally Posted by CO 1E (Post 11793884)

Today is an unbelievably Kettley day to be flying, by the way. In fact, DL 752 flights in coach provide for a very Kettley overall experience.

I'm not getting on another DL/NW 752 until I am a plat - they "hurt" my upgrade percentage.

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Originally Posted by sfogate (Post 11794259)

The Kettles starting flying this week. Had a very difficult time finding volunteers to take a bump Thursday night. Only one person jumped at the chance to fly First Class (24hrs later) with a $300 travel voucher.

24 hours is (unfortunately) a long time for a $300 TCV and an F seat.

It is time for a mojito. I got the stirrings mix, rum, and club soda. The one good thing about DL is their signature cocktails.

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Originally Posted by colpuck (Post 11794891)

The one good thing about DL is their signature cocktails.

I'm not sure I agree with that assessment.

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Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 11794431)

But are you drinking diet or zero-cal soda and such instead? The same high might be able to be achieved on a basis of sugars or artificial crap.

I don't drink soda at all (except club soda). I'm not into sugar or artificial sweeteners.

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Originally Posted by sfogate (Post 11794259)

Two lucky or unlucky people got $100 travel voucher and two drink chits for moving.

IMO, it's not woth $100 for me to sit in a middle on a transcon at all. $400 or 500 and now were talking. ;)

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Originally Posted by icurhere2 (Post 11794773)

Need to tell your PR firm that a EWR hub is necessarily located at EWR. ;)

Century Global Airways currently operates out of Terminal B in the B-3 concourse, which is located wholly within the city limits of Newark. ;)

Terminal A is the one located on the line. When you check in at the AA counter, you are in Elizabeth, but once you enter the TSA security line for the A-1 concourse you are in beautiful Newark.

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Originally Posted by icurhere2 (Post 11794773)

24 hours is (unfortunately) a long time for a $300 TCV and an F seat.

Depending on what I have going on, I can usually change my schedule very easily, but $300 is usually not enough for me to delay for 24 hours.

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Originally Posted by colpuck (Post 11794891)

It is time for a mojito. I got the stirrings mix, rum, and club soda. The one good thing about DL is their signature cocktails.

We have a new Bahama Breeze that opened in Wayne, NJ and they have some good mojitos, a little sweet, but good.

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Originally Posted by xyzzy (Post 11789501)

I looked at the criteria used to generate the rankings. What exactly is, "Are there move-over laws in the state?" My guess is that's a "keep right except to pass" law. NJ has such a law but nobody seems to either follow or enforce it. That's one thing I wish they would enforce. The double fines/points for tickets in a 65mph zone are absurd, though.

Try CA, it's by far the worst place of this. They have a law, yet all the slow drivers insist on squatting in the left lane. I finally figured it out though. In the minds of the idiots, the left lane is the HOV lane... even when there is no HOV lane. :(

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Originally Posted by sfogate (Post 11791019)

This morning he looks like a chipmunk. :D

Is he going to follow in Larry's footsteps? :)

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Originally Posted by sfogate (Post 11792110)

The cheating customer:

He booked himself into F using a postive upgrade certificate. Shows up at the ticket counter to get checked in. He is asked to turn over the certificate and claims that CO told him to mail it in. :confused: That isn't our policy and never has been so the agent calls reservations help desk to see if they know more than we do. The ticket counter advises the customer that he must turn in the certificate or we would have to downgrade him back to his original class of service: Y. He storms off and now I get to deal with the problem, as the GA in charge of the flight.

He should know that trick only works with paper tickets. Not that I would have any experience with it.

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Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 11792318)

My mother and cruisr seem to think that they are going to the Mini-Do next week. Pity for them that they did not post to that effect.

This is news to me. ;)

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Originally Posted by CO 1E (Post 11793863)

I was stranded on Amtrak today for 1hr 45 minutes because the train hit a deer and damaged a break line. We had to wait for the next train to come along and then transfer to that train. The delay caused me to miss my EUA'd NW flights, but the NW non-elite desk transferred me to the DL desk and forced open an oversold flight with no change fees or penalties. I currently am in a middle seat on a DL 752 for the first segmeht, but I am arriving at my destination within 3 hours of my originally scheduled arrival on a day when many flights are oversold. er

I flew on DL for the first time yesterday and I have to say, I was kind of impressed. The service was nice, everything was on time and I couldn't complain since I made $400 on Thursday and almost managed to make $1200.

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Originally Posted by CO 1E (Post 11793884)

Today is an unbelievably Kettley day to be flying, by the way. In fact, DL 752 flights in coach provide for a very Kettley overall experience.

It is prime Kettle season. Flying SFO-SLC-EWR-PHX on the first day of a long weekend was not the smartest of ideas. At least most of it was in F.

I am alive folks, just slammed. Details were posted which I imagine everyone has seen. I'm taking payment ahead of tiem to make it easy and people should just bring cash for alcohol.

It's 5pm and i just woke up... and that's only because someone called to invite me to do drinks/movies with friends in a few hours.

I need to goto Target. I dunno why, I just do. Target has everything I "need."

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Originally Posted by fozz (Post 11795223)

This is news to me. ;)

cruisr has been awesome to me for many years now, and I think they are talking about going just to give me a case of the :rolleyes:. If that's the case, it's working.