Now, now...it's just that one agent having a b*tchy day. Promo codes for travel agents is pretty standard stuff. Most of the time the information is on the back of the certificate or you just find an old timer agent to ask. The code should be PR3.

Gross. Kind of makes me glad I'd be in 24F.;) I thought it was bad enough when I watched a woman with a cheek full of chaw at the gate in LAS.

Finally landed and at the P-Club...and only 4 hours and 14 minutes late. I think Jennifer Hudson is sitting across from me but I'm not positive....wouldn't recognize her.

Ask the PClub agents. They can look that up for you. I understand that we wouldn't recognize most Hollywood types without their makeup on.

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My mother sat next to Joey from Sugar Hill Gang on the way down this morning.

Thanks, J. Ed. - it did work in that we got the upgrades, but it was poorly handled, so much so that the service center agents wondered why we left the PClub. When we explained that the agent there could/would not list us because whoever this help desk person was would not authorize her to do so, then it was another 15 minutes there before we were listed. The PClub agent was not informed enough to be able to refute the help desk person, and the help desk person initially refused the upgrade list because my mother and I were on industry reward tickets. When the nice PClub agent who was stuck repeating what the help desk told her, that sucked. What the help desk told her, loud enough for my mother to hear over the phone was "I'm not here to argue with passengers", among others. Uh, fail. Big fat fail.

And yeah, they are PR3 upgrades, just like sfogate taught me. :D. I know that they are subject to all Elites clearing and I have no problem with that. I keep them with me when I fly because I typically do not fly in what one might call peak times. But the point is that whether or not it's a travel agent involved, those upgrade certs come from Houston Sales to industry people in general, not just travel agents. I would find it hard to believe that the ability to process them is becoming a rare skill in a hub. I find it much easier to swallow that someone didn't give a crap and that this nice PClub lady got caught in the middle. Oh well, I have names of all involved except for the help desk biotch, and everyone but her was very nice.

To me, the Playstation 3 was a no brainer. I wanted to play some games and it also plays Blue-ray Discs. More is more.:p

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Night, Box.

PR3s are similar to the companion upgrades and are done in the computer almost the same way.

Lesson 1: How to do a PR3 upgrade

6:flt nbr-last name$PR3#U

In regular English, you would tell the GA or whoever to:
Checkin flight number last name dollar sign PR3 end item U (enter)

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Just got off plane, novice fa cut me off booooooop!!!!

Just curious, what happens when there are multiple folks on the same flight with the same last name?

Sheesh...I didn't think it was that cranky. Sorry. :(

But a $200 player - when a typical DVD player is $30-50 - is way more than I'd want to spend. And I'm more of the $8 version than the $27 version for that film. I'm not sure that there could be enough "special" about the special edition to justify tripling the price.

As it turns out, there seems to be a chance that I will have a meeting in LA on Monday. I'll be flying AA F for that trip if I go. I might also have a meeting in Florida, though I'd fly jetBlue if I end up on that trip. ;)

6:123-Baglady/J$PR3#U

The first initial or complete first name will come after the last name using a slash mark between them.

The person that wrote Shares (ours and all the other airline computer programs) thought in real English. Once you learn the basic format it's easy to learn the rest of the stuff.

If you, as a Platinum, was not added to the standby list, the entry is just the same:

6:123-Baglady/J$PLT#U
6:123-Badlady/J$GLD#U

yep SLV is for silver.

No worries, I still love you. ;)

The price of the player is going down fast. They were $299 in December; which, I guess, is your point.

I'll agree on special editions. The only one that comes to mind that was worth the price was Master and Commander. It had a very playable game, maps, historical info and a lot of other add-ons.

However, the picture quality of Blu-Ray or HD-DVD on an HD monitor is not even in the same universe as SD DVD. (What is interesting is that whatever was on a special edition often gets burned onto the HD version of the film.)

I often find myself watching sporting events that I could care less about on the HDTV simply because the picture is so amazing.

Lastly, at around $80 you can get an upconvert SD player that when paired with an HDTV and proper cables, takes SD DVDs to near HD quality. (HD and Blue-Ray players do the same.) This is good enough for movies I like, but for movies I love, I do lust for the HD version.

Todays WalMart circular had a Blu-Ray player for $124.

I'll be in LA on Tuesday. (And AUS, but that's a long story...)

Do you realize how cool your routing is? :p:D