^ Enjoy!

It would be an honor! ;)

Goede avond, Doos.

I have been in the Netherlands for three days and have asked many questions in the hopes of eliciting the response "is not possible." So far I have been disappointed, as everything has been possible.

Their E70s were sold to Republic several years ago, but Republic operates them as well as some E75s as an Express carrier for US.

Only some of them were. I think they can now be found in MKE pretending to be Midwest Airlines.

Interesting, because they were flying them BOS-PHL and vv for a while but then moved them elsewhere. I guess they're moving them back.

I have been in the Senator portion -- spent a very snowy afternoon there in March -- and can say that it is ausgezeichnet.

Go to the KLM lounge and try to get in with your CO Gold card...

That reminds me... I have a Biscoff catalog here in the stack of Christmas catalogs. Perhaps I need to put in an order :)

I don't think you'll get points off your chauffeur's license for a rear-ender. :rolleyes:v car service must endure! :-:

I just alerted the proper person that the 15Ks weren't posting as needed and they've identified the issue.

Should be fixed tomorrow for the others who are waiting. :D

Cool, thanks.

<groan> I may be 525 miles short to qualify for UA's elite choice at the 175k level where I can get 25k RDMs. Don't really want to do it but looks like I'll need to do a short hop.

UK phone card
 

I just got back from London with a few pounds left on a UK phone card. 0800 and local access codes plus pin, calls the states nicely from a pay phone, some hotels pass the 0800 call free, others charge a fee. (London is the town where you get to roll over twice in your sleep, any more shows up on the hotel bill.)

Happy to email a scan (saves me typing) to the first fellow CO FlyerTalker that PMs me their email address (not a reverse PM, unless you can teach me how to include the image, which I don't believe is possible). Please ask if you're likely to use it, so it doesn't go to waste...

Okay, the debate over the relative hotness between George Clooney vs. Tom Cruise forces me to post this from the "Your own favourite BA picture" thread. :D

Instant "IS NOT POSSIBLE" :D

WOW, Hyatt Dulles is $59 on a Saturday night. Sweet!

I understand it perfectly. Follow me through this: guy who travels for work, obsessed with miles. Guy who travels for work that is obsessed with miles is a subplot, and the trailers give no reasonable indication that there is any other large subplot. FlyerTalkers are, to paint with somewhat of a broad brush, people who are obsessed with miles. Further, many are people who travel for work. That is enough resonance for the prototypical (note I did not say stereotypical) participant on these boards to be interested in the movie. The resonance is amplified to women because it's Clooney we're talking about. He's not exactly an unattractive guy. Further, no one knows what dramatic or creative license has been taken with the adaptation for the screen.

Guy who travels for work also happens to fire people for a living. Many people on these boards have direct reports that they may have had to let go in the last year or two, and some of them even may have been shown the door by their boss. And far too many people have had unpleasant HR experiences in the last two or so years, regardless of their place on the ladder.

Add to both of the above that there is a significant chunk of people out there who harbor that dream of building the miles and one day cashing them in to do something life-altering for themselves and their family. "I'm gonna cash those miles in and take everyone to Hawaii" is what most people think about their miles, not what we think about our miles. "Ten million miles" is the "arbitrary" goal that is being set in the movie, but the movie would not play to a mass audience if the stated goal was something that we know to be real and tangible, like lifetime Plat or 1K. That would take too much explanation, and Hollywood believes all of us to be stupid.

In closing, there is also that subset of FlyerTalkers who appear to the rest of us as nothing more than status chasers. The people who I have lamented; the ones who think that EQM's are more important than the correct function of vital organs. Those people who will stop at nothing for a new piece of meaningless wallet candy. That's where it appeals to the douchey personal struggle. The flyer doesn't think it's a douchey personal struggle, for any number of reasons. But those around the flyer fail to understand how that schmuck could enjoy being on planes so much...and more than that, what could he possibly get out of that, the dumb pursuit that it is in their minds? They don't get it, so they assign a negative label to it.

The movie is, to a large extent, a commentary through a rarely utilized prism on the recession. And that's why even if the film is cinematically a flaming hunk of turd, it will do well on the awards show circuit.

I just stare at goats to get miles.