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gbryan84 Sep 20, 2009 8:11 pm

If any of you are going to ZRH on the DL mistake fare beware that you may spend more money on food while you are there than you paid for the ticket :eek: Soda's were $5 just about everywhere. Also, if you have facebook look at my lunch and tell me how this buffet style food was worth 16 CHF? Rolov posted the link above.

sbm12 Sep 20, 2009 8:13 pm


Originally Posted by gbryan84 (Post 12411175)
Oasis Lounge Bathroom JFK

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pi...51&id=16714640

Let me know if you can see this. You might have to log into facebook? I suck at adding pictures....:o

Yeah...you've got your profile set up to require logins. FB sucks for sharing photos outside of it.

This is the actual image:
http://photos-c-0.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._6839082_n.jpg


Originally Posted by monitor (Post 12409030)
few extreme mileage running nutcases.

You rang??

I actually respect DL for excluding the cheap fares from their initial DEQM bonus.

Originally Posted by Anglo Large Clawed Otter (Post 12409243)
A W is a W. :-:

I keep telling myself that after the fiasco in the Swamp yesterday. It was rather strange to walk out with a 10 point victory and the losing team's fans were happier than the winning team's.

gbryan84 Sep 20, 2009 8:14 pm


Originally Posted by Scott6067 (Post 12411278)
Sounds like a great trip home.

Question for the box even though I think I know the answer. If an elite is on a paid ticket and companion on a reward ticket can you companion upgrade said person. I assume not but that I would seek wisdom here.

Companion must be on paid $ ticket.

ConciergeMike Sep 20, 2009 8:15 pm

I have a philosophical quandary. For some reason, wedding details were the talk of the weekend despite that the plans are still on hold.

I am bothered by the concept of the sweeheart table. I believe that it is on some level wrong that the bridal party isolate themselves. I'm a much bigger believer in the bridal party table. My fiancee knew this earlier, but asked me to restate my argument. She then proceeded to bring up valid objections that I couldn't really come up with ways around with regard to seating and splitting up couples and such.

I then asked the following: is the sweetheart table, distatasteful though I think it is, what society has come up with as an answer to family/friend seating problems?

sbm12 Sep 20, 2009 8:15 pm


Originally Posted by Scott6067 (Post 12411278)
Sounds like a great trip home.

The CO service was honestly just meh. Pre-departure drinks didn't come until after scheduled push-back, which is late IMO. And the service during the flight was OK, but not great. Not the best flight crew I've had lately by a long stretch.


Originally Posted by Scott6067 (Post 12411278)
Question for the box even though I think I know the answer. If an elite is on a paid ticket and companion on a reward ticket can you companion upgrade said person. I assume not but that I would seek wisdom here.

Nope. Supposedly you can be on an award and upgrade them on revenue, but that is one I haven't really seen in action.

Xyzzy Sep 20, 2009 8:16 pm


Originally Posted by CO 1E (Post 12410883)
I might have to visit this "Nines."

I want to schedule a trip to PDX before the end of the year...

Xyzzy Sep 20, 2009 8:18 pm


Originally Posted by Scott6067 (Post 12411278)
Sounds like a great trip home.

Question for the box even though I think I know the answer. If an elite is on a paid ticket and companion on a reward ticket can you companion upgrade said person. I assume not but that I would seek wisdom here.

Not on CO. Coach Award tix are not eligible for elite upgrades.

sbm12 Sep 20, 2009 8:19 pm


Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 12411291)
I am bothered by the concept of the sweeheart table. I believe that it is on some level wrong that the bridal party isolate themselves. I'm a much bigger believer in the bridal party table. My fiancee knew this earlier, but asked me to restate my argument. She then proceeded to bring up valid objections that I couldn't really come up with ways around with regard to seating and splitting up couples and such.

There are always ways around it. At our wedding we didn't have one. We had my family, her family, my friends, her friends and then another handful of "other" folks, including the officiant+1 and some other friends that didn't really fit in any of the other groups. So we sat with them. We weren't there all that much anyways but it helped get that table started in conversations. And we didn't have to bother with a bridal party table, which would have been a bad mix I think, or with a table just for us.

Eff the "traditions" and do what you two are comfortable with.

Brituchenite Sep 20, 2009 8:21 pm


Originally Posted by Steve GadFly (Post 12411236)
Brituchenite, I was in your neck of the woods at a BBQ in Metuchen. The owner of a local music store has all his friends/customers over every year and it always turns into a big jam session in his back yard.

We live so close....we should get together one of these days for a double-date (as long as there's a vegetarian option for Ms. GadFly)



PM me who it was. I may know him.

sdm1130 Sep 20, 2009 8:23 pm


Originally Posted by sbm12 (Post 12411305)
Eff the "traditions" and do what you two are comfortable with.

The best advice to follow when planning a wedding... ^

We chose to do the sweetheart table mostly because that's what fit best in the room. The other tables fell in to place just fine and no one seemed to be left uncomfortable.

Brituchenite Sep 20, 2009 8:23 pm


Originally Posted by Steve GadFly (Post 12411243)
So which one of the Fantanas are you?? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ntanas2006.jpg


Ha! Ha! Don't I wish I looked like one of these ....:D

Brituchenite Sep 20, 2009 8:30 pm


Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 12411291)
I am bothered by the concept of the sweeheart table.


What's a sweetheart table?

gbryan84 Sep 20, 2009 8:30 pm


Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 12411291)
I have a philosophical quandary. For some reason, wedding details were the talk of the weekend despite that the plans are still on hold.

I am bothered by the concept of the sweeheart table. I believe that it is on some level wrong that the bridal party isolate themselves. I'm a much bigger believer in the bridal party table. My fiancee knew this earlier, but asked me to restate my argument. She then proceeded to bring up valid objections that I couldn't really come up with ways around with regard to seating and splitting up couples and such.

I then asked the following: is the sweetheart table, distatasteful though I think it is, what society has come up with as an answer to family/friend seating problems?

Do what she wants and dont argue. Trust me, if she is happy you will be happy ;)

Olton Hall Sep 20, 2009 8:33 pm


Originally Posted by ssullivan (Post 12410421)
Slow afternoon in here. Took me all of 30 seconds to read posts from the last five hours.

That made it easy for me to catch up on things. So what's happened here in the box since Wednesday late afternoon?


Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 12407551)
Talk like a Pirate Day ends on a sad note for me. Had to run out and shop for dark dress clothes tonight; friend and ex-boss of mine from the old USAF office died of cancer earlier this week, and no one reached out to tell me until tonight. He was all of 52. :(

Sorry to hear that.

ConciergeMike Sep 20, 2009 8:35 pm


Originally Posted by sbm12 (Post 12411305)
Eff the "traditions" and do what you two are comfortable with.

Amen. But her sisters are going to be her bridal party, and she has this concern that I guess normal people have about family. Her family is a source of love and inspiration. My family annoys me. I guess being a child of divorced parents and an only child makes me unable to comprehend a sibling relationship and a nuclear family.


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