The citizens of PHL and PEK will not be waived off any longer. DOT denies US's request to delay service.

http://www.centreforaviation.com/new...us-china/page1

You shoud have questioned the $12 charge just to mess with them. :rolleyes:

They have operations outside the Nugget ;) Plus1 and I had a nice discussion about this at Central NJ Mini Do.

Actually, DoT says that it's too early to request another waiver. If I were an administrator with the DoT, I would be asking where are the multiple aircraft to fly this route ...

I like your style.

Night, b:rolleyes:x ... I need a sleep!

Both booked in "E" bucket- which is about as low as you can go. What I find even more interesting is that having done this trip a few times now is that only one segment ever seems to clear for an upgrade.

Essentially it's TPA-IAH-SNA. Anything involving SNA never clears and is usually full a week or so out. Coming from SNA also causes the IAH-TPA portion to be booked solid, but going the other way, TPA-IAH is usually wide open. I cleared as silver at EUA and there's still 3 seats left.

As for aircraft, they occasionally swap in a 752, but otherwise it's 737 700/800's with me chanting "no whammy, no whammy" as far as having any sort of IFE is concerned.

I think looking at how far out they sell out and the number of standby pax etc... that SNA-IAH-SNA is full of rev pax FF's while TPA-IAH-TPA is full of non-rev using their freebies to a Florida as a leisure destination.

Ipod...laptop, zune, media player of any kind, or good ole book :D

Now I'll get the choice between netbook, book, Sudoku book, writing ...

The fun of this Holiday Inn Express just grows. Now the AC in my room is barely functioning. For some reason it switched over to heat on its own and wouldn't switch off heat while I was out to dinner with my parents earlier. I've now managed to get it back blowing cold air, but it doesn't blow very much, so it is taking a long time to get the room comfortable again. We're slowly making progress though; over the last three hours the temperature has dropped from 79 to 74.

I can't wait for Holiday Inn to e-mail me their guest satisfaction survey next week on this one. I really do try to be open minded with them and give them a chance, but it seems like that chain still suffers from a serious lack of attention to minor details and consistency. I don't expect a hotel of this class in a smaller place like this to be perfect, but come on, is a properly functioning air conditioner and a little bleach to kill any signs of mold or mildew in the bathroom before it gets out of control too much to ask?

Stop taking all the fun out of my posts. :P

It was a first for me.

It was also a suggestion, request, hint, implication, er, demand from baglady.

Cool! I guess this shouldn't be that surprising, given that we have more than the average number of metro-CLE people on this board. :) Where did you go to school (CCIS/public/other?)

I seem to have issues with every HI/HIE I stay in. Though did perform an emergency heart transplant after staying in the HIE-BHM once.

We'll be better than Ethel. :D (It will be tiny though)

Yes, just off the main lobby at Nugget.

Setting up my instant Ikea apartment with just 2 people required multiple trips through the warehouse to get everything - so we swapped out filling up/checking out/dropping off at the delivery station. This resulted in about 4 or 5 trips through the register at around $800-$1200 each.

AMEX decided to decline the $136 delivery fee once we got everything assembled at the delivery area.

Their logic never ceases to amaze me.