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fozz Jun 25, 2009 6:49 am


Originally Posted by icurhere2 (Post 11965485)
I told my friends about the $300 BNA-ZRH RT available a couple weeks ago AND the new route bonuses (I will earn 45,000 RDMs for the trip); not one of them acted ...

$300 BNA-ZRH? Is this from the DL mistake filing?

Xyzzy Jun 25, 2009 6:50 am


Originally Posted by jrzyshawn (Post 11965686)
We will both be *Gold for this little HNL trip. I wonder if we can have E+.

Right now UA only gives E+ to its own elites, and even they can only put a single companion into E+.

fozz Jun 25, 2009 6:52 am

I realized that I already booked a HNL run for Feb during the last round of insane pricing.

Now i'm considering doing another one in April since it will cost me a whopping $106. That works out to be a penny a mile.

uncertaintraveler Jun 25, 2009 6:52 am


Originally Posted by photog72 (Post 11963949)
Where are you?

Sitting on a chair, in a rather spacious office, located in Houston.

sbm12 Jun 25, 2009 6:53 am


Originally Posted by fozz (Post 11966648)
$300 BNA-ZRH? Is this from the DL mistake filing?

Yup. Folks in NYC actually got the short end of the stick on that deal as the add-on fares from most other cities were trivial (~$50) adding many more miles over the non-stops from JFK.

Originally Posted by xyzzy (Post 11966659)
Right now UA only gives E+ to its own elites, and even they can only put a single companion into E+.

Officially true, though having *G and asking nicely if there are any better seats has seen me get the E+ for free ~50% of the time. And one of the oft-proffered theories is that CO elites will get E+ as part of a bilateral reciprocity but who knows.

ConciergeMike Jun 25, 2009 6:54 am


Originally Posted by ssullivan (Post 11962522)
It can't be any more bare-bones than other terminals I've been too. And certainly no worse than the temporary facilities at BPT and LCH.

Enjoy getting the dot and line. Book an immediate turn...my turnaround time was nine weeks. :rolleyes:


Originally Posted by belynch (Post 11962635)
I originally wasn't going to touch this with a 10 foot pole, but for some reason I feel compelled to point the following out --

It's an internet forum.

Come here to revel in your joy of travel with fellow posters. Enjoy a laugh and a healthy dose of :rolleyes:. But don't ever let it get under your skin and don't take it seriously.

It's an internet forum.

I hope walking away from this for a little bit helps put all this back in perspective. It's not worth getting angry over, or jeopardizing friendships and contacts you've developed along the way.

Good point. This is probably all the Box I'll be doing today.


Originally Posted by Phudnik (Post 11962730)
To keep this remotely CO-related, I did see Claudio Reyna in the old EWR C PC with the rest of the New York :rolleyes: Bulls a couple of years ago.

Anyone else think the new Red Bulls Stadium looks vaguely like the new one in Beijing?


Originally Posted by belynch (Post 11963193)
My auto insurance just went up 8% vs. last year with the only change to the policy being moving from a renter's insurance to homeowner's with the same company. You'd think it would go down with the increased business, not up. Poo.

That is well and truly a$$-backwards.


Originally Posted by Steph3n (Post 11963243)
Hrm....I am seriously thinking about going to Oshkosh this year..anyone in the Box ever been?


Originally Posted by KNRG (Post 11963270)
That's actually a place and not just a children's clothing brand?

Next you'll tell me there's a real hidden valley..


Originally Posted by Steph3n (Post 11963300)
Oshkosh is in Wisconsin, it is home to one of the largest airshows in the world.
BTW there is a Hidden Valley, PA too...

Oshkosh is from what I understand something that any aviation nut has to do once. I wish I could have been there for the 100th anniversary of powered flight - almost every national jet demo team was there and IIRC in the air together. Probably the only time that will ever happen.


Originally Posted by CO 1E (Post 11963510)
Good luck.

+1


Originally Posted by kingalien (Post 11963512)
Thank you Sir.

It's why he's The Wizard.


Originally Posted by fozz (Post 11963959)
Wow, the ACES train is advertising on tv.

I'm personally amazed that it's still running.


Originally Posted by fozz (Post 11964025)
There should be, we recorded one last week and are recording another tonight.

I'm going to finish the new one on the ride out to my appointment later. I have This Week in Photography for the ride home. ^


Originally Posted by sdm1130 (Post 11965068)
Yeah, as soon as a good employment opportunity presents itself in a warmer climate... I'm done with the cold winters.

Can't say that I disagree. Would love to be in a year-round golf and watersports climate.


Originally Posted by baglady (Post 11965342)
Survey says yes. I was very happy when I had my plates/screws/pins removed to expedite security. I still have a small amount of metal left in my ankle and a tiny bit in my shoulder. Rarely, it sets off the detectors.

My mother has had a titanium rod running the length of her upper left arm for a few years now. Not one ping at TSA or at any metal detector ever that I can recall. She carries the medical metal card that the surgeon gave her just in case, but she's never had to pull it out.


Originally Posted by sfogate (Post 11966164)
I don't know it the plate/screws are surgical grade steel or titanium. Another question to ask on the post-op office visit next week.

cruisr's plating in her shoulder should not ding either, or so I've been told. I would think that titanium does not ding and surgical steel does. Where is COFlyerCLE when we need him? He'd probably know.

Off to the contract medical clinic for the substitute teaching place, then to the substitute teaching place to drop off my PPD test results. Then I have to (shudder!) do some real work and errands. Later on.

belynch Jun 25, 2009 6:56 am


Originally Posted by xyzzy (Post 11966659)
Right now UA only gives E+ to its own elites

... confirmed in advance.

If you're :rolleyes: elite, don't reserve a seat. The back half of the Y section will fill up and when you get to the aeropuerto they will try and sell you an E+ seat. Say, thanks, but no thanks to their bridge to nowhere and then go to the gate and say "ohhh, lookie here, I don't have a seat and I'm a :rolleyes: Gold, can you please help me out."

And the agent will clackity clack clack clack, :rolleyes: at you, and then give you an E+ seat. Without fail.

In other news, I followed a pick-up truck across the Tap this morning with a "Happiness is Owning a Pig" bumper sticker. Needless to say, I don't think he was from around here. But it did have me thinking about my dear, dear Hamlet. He was such a wonderful pig, in life, and after.

Morning box.

fozz Jun 25, 2009 6:57 am


Originally Posted by xyzzy (Post 11966659)
Right now UA only gives E+ to its own elites, and even they can only put a single companion into E+.

Incorrect. You can bring up to eight people up to E+ with you.

Hartmann Jun 25, 2009 7:06 am

Anyone know if the retro jet is coming in as a scheduled flight? If so, which one?

Steph3n Jun 25, 2009 7:15 am


Originally Posted by belynch (Post 11966690)

In other news, I followed a pick-up truck across the Tap this morning with a "Happiness is Owning a Pig" bumper sticker. Needless to say, I don't think he was from around here. But it did have me thinking about my dear, dear Hamlet. He was such a wonderful pig, in life, and after.

Morning box.

It said owning, or eating? I have seen a bumper sticker like this about eating a pig...

AMF in NJ Jun 25, 2009 7:18 am

Hidey ho, Box.


Originally Posted by ssullivan (Post 11963176)
TThe Impala is the most :rolleyes: car I've driven in a long time. Sure, it's fine if you don't mind the fact that the steering wheel is ridiculously loose and you can turn it about 10-15 degrees out of center while the car continues to go straight (and it's so loose it will do this as you're cruising along and hit a bump in the road). And it's not bad if you don't mind the basic, ugly interior and craptastic radio that most rental Imapalas seem to have (we're talking circa-1988 clock radio sound quality here). And it's not bad if you don't mind the awkward grandma-esque driving position that the base model's unpowered seat forces you into. Oh, and then there's the brakes, which is usually ridiculously soft, but hopefully you'll stop before you hit someone.

I hate the Imapala. The Malibu is 1,000,000 times better. Hopefully you'll get one of those instead. I don't understand why GM hasn't killed the Imapala, which really drives like the cars they made in the 1970s and 1980s. The Malibu isn't without its faults (lack of interior storage, no grab handles, no rear center armrest, ridiculously tiny trunk opening), but it's one of the best driving mid-size sedans on the market today. The Imapala, on the other hand, just screams "driver who didn't do his/her research or is over age 70."

Thanks for the info. Here's hoping that it's a Malibu or a Taurus in the lot/stall/whatever. :rolleyes:

photog72 Jun 25, 2009 7:18 am


Originally Posted by belynch (Post 11966690)
In other news, I followed a pick-up truck across the Tap this morning with a "Happiness is Owning a Pig" bumper sticker. Needless to say, I don't think he was from around here. But it did have me thinking about my dear, dear Hamlet. He was such a wonderful pig, in life, and after.

George Clooney misses his pig too. So much so, that he contacted a psychic.:rolleyes:
http://www.examiner.com/x-964-LA-Cel...about-dead-pig

Hartmann Jun 25, 2009 7:19 am


Originally Posted by belynch (Post 11966690)
In other news, I followed a pick-up truck across the Tap this morning with a "Happiness is Owning a Pig" bumper sticker. Needless to say, I don't think he was from around here. But it did have me thinking about my dear, dear Hamlet. He was such a wonderful pig, in life, and after.

:D

Pigs actually make pretty decent pets. They are extremely intelligent and some of them like to have their foreheads rubbed. We used to have a few when I was growing up and they played with the dogs like they were one of them.

Me, I've always wanted a monkey. Wife said "no".

belynch Jun 25, 2009 7:19 am


Originally Posted by Steph3n (Post 11966778)
It said owning, or eating?

Definitely owning.

The condition of the pick-up truck was consistent with this statement too, which was amusing in itself. Red Fox visits Westchester Co. NY.

belynch Jun 25, 2009 7:21 am


Originally Posted by photog72 (Post 11966787)
George Clooney misses his pig too.

This, my friends, is why the Box is Awesome.


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