ARGH. Just popped on my work email (dorkitis) and I have to be in ABQ the week after SFO. I'm sure blondie is going to love this...

I seem to recall a certain individual with my name posting right here in the box back in May about how this summer looked "light" with travel. :rolleyes:

Oh. Looks like the flight 90 min. before mine to SFO is wide open in first. Looks like I might be showing up to EWR a bit early...

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The mushrooms were for a 60th Birthday Party for tonight (7/11) that were bought from local food service company who in turn bought them from a PDX based farm. It almosted looked like the mushrooms may have been in the non-conditioned bin of the airplane and thus the reason for them not being the best. I should have ripped off the sticker and seen if I could track on co.com

Or if you're in a 16-seat 738, you can hope for a change in gauge to a 20-seat version. That's happened to me a few times. :)

So is anyone from the box jumping on the Copy JFK-TGU fare? Having never been south of Florida in the western hemisphere, it sounded like a fun quick jaunt.

I saw it, but decided to pass for now.

Last night at ATL my NW flight pulled up to a DL gate on the D Concourse, since NW's gates were all taken. We waited about that long for a gate agent to come move the jetway.

I've usually the opposite happen — 738 with 18/20 F seats turns into a 738 with 16 F seats. At least the few times it's happened my upgrade had already cleared, and I wasn't in row 5.

The really nice treat at ATL is when a 735 gets substituted for a 738, which was happening quite often back in the Spring. That's usually a winner for everyone. More elites get upgraded at the gate (usually all of them) and the passengers in Y get to spread out and have empty middle seats between them.

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I really want to but am having trouble finding a weekend that I can do it without annoying my wife or chancing issues with work. The guy I'm supposed to be starting a venture with keeps delaying the actual start making it very hard to plan things. :(

I had a 738 get cut to a 735 for my Sept. MCO trip - I was already sweating my odds with having an upgrade instrument that falls between Gold and Silver, and now my chances got cut in half....but only 1 of 4 legs is an ERJ, and those exit rows are open. We're both tall, and it's her first RJ flight.

So if I end up getting to EWR early and try and standby for the earlier flight to SFO. How does that work?

What are the fees, where do I go on the upgrade list? Is there a way to strategically do this?

sbm12's post HERE might help a little. It looks as easy as calling ahead and there was another poster in that thread who specifically said to use the verbiage of "I'd like to standby for an earlier flight", as opposed to just asking for a seat on an earlier flight.

The verbiage doesn't matter anymore since there are no more free upgrades.

It will cost $50/person to switch to the earlier flight, half price for golds and platinums (which you are but she isn't, right, so $75 for the two of you). And you have to clear onto the earlier flight in Y before you get on to the standby list. If there are a lot of seats in Y and/or you make the change 12 hours out from the departure that isn't a big deal. If you get stuck actually standing by rather than confirming a new seat, however, you'll likely only clear into Y as someone else gets upgraded, freeing up a seat. That someone could've been lower than you in the order, but they would get it since you weren't even in Y yet. If you are able to confirm onto the new flight you'll be added to the list in the order noted in the above link, so as a platinum on an H fare you'll be pretty high up there. No guarantees, but if the flight has a lot of open F seats 12 hours out it might be a worthwhile chance to take.

Witnessed something I had never seen before LAX-IAH tonight.

At LAX I get on the plane and take my seat (2A). Coach starts boarding and everything looks like we're going to push back early. The PDA site says that all the seats are filled with a battlefield going to 2F.

The GA comes on-board and they make an announcement for the guy to come forward. No one does. Then some guy sitting a few rows back in coach walks up and proclaims that he'll take the seat because he's Gold.

Eventually, the GA upgrades another person but is dumbfounded, the person who was upgraded had boarded the flight but they couldn't find them :confused:

This is why some of the outstations need the scanners rather than the tearing of the tickets upon boarding.