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Jan 17, 2014, 8:31 am
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Sounds like a good deal to me, especially since the connection is on the day-time westbound flights. I'd definitely try to preserve the non-stop on the redeye like you did if I could only have the non-stop in one direction. The new-ish SkyTeam lounge in LHR is supposed to be pretty nice and might not be too crowded on a Saturday.
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Jan 17, 2014, 9:28 am
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Sounds like a good deal to me, especially since the connection is on the day-time westbound flights. I'd definitely try to preserve the non-stop on the redeye like you did if I could only have the redeye in one direction. The new-ish SkyTeam lounge in LHR is supposed to be pretty nice and might not be too crowded on a Saturday.
The connection doesn't "thrill me," but was hard to resist the change in itinerary for a lower price, while booking directly into BusinessElite.
Jan 17, 2014, 10:07 am
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Jan 17, 2014, 12:25 pm
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Jan 17, 2014, 3:25 pm
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UPDATE :
This will be my first time flying through LHR, so I hope it won't be too painful. I'm a bit of a "princess" when it comes to nonstop flights but :
(a) saving €s
(b) saving SWUs for future use
(c) being booked in BE
(d) arriving about an hour earlier in BOS (albeit, leaving earlier from AMS)
was too much to pass up for this short 3 day trip.
This will be my first time flying through LHR, so I hope it won't be too painful. I'm a bit of a "princess" when it comes to nonstop flights but :
(a) saving €s
(b) saving SWUs for future use
(c) being booked in BE
(d) arriving about an hour earlier in BOS (albeit, leaving earlier from AMS)
was too much to pass up for this short 3 day trip.
Jan 17, 2014, 3:28 pm
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Jan 17, 2014, 6:06 pm
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Jan 17, 2014, 6:21 pm
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Jan 17, 2014, 6:58 pm
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I'm hurriedly working on some stuff now as I'm trying to leave for NYC tonight. My goal was to leave at 10...not sure how feasible that will be, and if I push it much beyond that, I'm not sure I can stay awake long enough to make it up there tonight. Might have to postpone until tomorrow...
Jan 17, 2014, 9:45 pm
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DL had better give me ORC for this.
Jan 18, 2014, 7:54 am
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I was the last to clear into F on my delayed flight last night. Since it was delayed no PDBs. Once the door was closed the pilots announced an ATC delay of 30 minutes due to traffic into ATL. PDBs were served! One round on the ground and one round (a double) in the air isn't bad for a 271 mile flight.
Jan 18, 2014, 8:53 am
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No. In fact, I didn't make it out until 8pm last night. I'm up here, now, and what a weekend to come up...it's blowin' and snowin'...
So I went to my doctor the other day for a travel consult, only my doctor doesn't do them, so I saw one of the two other doctors in the practice that does travel consults. I told him I was heading to India for two weeks, and he prescribed Malarone. Only he prescribed four pills.
Apparently he misread the dosing information and thought it was a weekly pill, not a daily dose. Oops.
Fortunately, an email to him resulted in a fixed prescription, although now I have to find time to get over to Costco after I get back home and before flying out next week. Still, if he's one of only two doctors in the (rather large) practice who is authorized to do a travel consult, that means he should do a lot of them and be relatively knowledgeable about travel medicine...and you'd think he'd know his malaria pills a bit better...
So I went to my doctor the other day for a travel consult, only my doctor doesn't do them, so I saw one of the two other doctors in the practice that does travel consults. I told him I was heading to India for two weeks, and he prescribed Malarone. Only he prescribed four pills.
Apparently he misread the dosing information and thought it was a weekly pill, not a daily dose. Oops.
Fortunately, an email to him resulted in a fixed prescription, although now I have to find time to get over to Costco after I get back home and before flying out next week. Still, if he's one of only two doctors in the (rather large) practice who is authorized to do a travel consult, that means he should do a lot of them and be relatively knowledgeable about travel medicine...and you'd think he'd know his malaria pills a bit better...
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Jan 18, 2014, 10:18 am
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No. In fact, I didn't make it out until 8pm last night. I'm up here, now, and what a weekend to come up...it's blowin' and snowin'...
So I went to my doctor the other day for a travel consult, only my doctor doesn't do them, so I saw one of the two other doctors in the practice that does travel consults. I told him I was heading to India for two weeks, and he prescribed Malarone. Only he prescribed four pills.
Apparently he misread the dosing information and thought it was a weekly pill, not a daily dose. Oops.
Fortunately, an email to him resulted in a fixed prescription, although now I have to find time to get over to Costco after I get back home and before flying out next week. Still, if he's one of only two doctors in the (rather large) practice who is authorized to do a travel consult, that means he should do a lot of them and be relatively knowledgeable about travel medicine...and you'd think he'd know his malaria pills a bit better...
So I went to my doctor the other day for a travel consult, only my doctor doesn't do them, so I saw one of the two other doctors in the practice that does travel consults. I told him I was heading to India for two weeks, and he prescribed Malarone. Only he prescribed four pills.
Apparently he misread the dosing information and thought it was a weekly pill, not a daily dose. Oops.
Fortunately, an email to him resulted in a fixed prescription, although now I have to find time to get over to Costco after I get back home and before flying out next week. Still, if he's one of only two doctors in the (rather large) practice who is authorized to do a travel consult, that means he should do a lot of them and be relatively knowledgeable about travel medicine...and you'd think he'd know his malaria pills a bit better...
Jan 18, 2014, 1:10 pm
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Happy with my flight redemption today.
CVG-YYC September 5-8, cheapest showing on ITA is $811, or $925 for Delta with 1 stop each way, more stops are not desirable to me. Especially since I'm not going to pay.
Went to check the award space and I show 40k miles as the only outbound options I like, and 40k for the return, so I pick my flights and it sums that total to 32500....winning! OK, not a hugest of scores, but 32500 miles for $900 worth of paid flight makes this totally worth it to me. I see lots of anecdotal evidence of Delta.com showing a lower level then advancing to a higher mileage total, so I just wanted to report that it actually happens in the other direction, occasionally.
Add in my 2 free nights at the Fairmont Banff Springs, and I am excited for my value
CVG-YYC September 5-8, cheapest showing on ITA is $811, or $925 for Delta with 1 stop each way, more stops are not desirable to me. Especially since I'm not going to pay.
Went to check the award space and I show 40k miles as the only outbound options I like, and 40k for the return, so I pick my flights and it sums that total to 32500....winning! OK, not a hugest of scores, but 32500 miles for $900 worth of paid flight makes this totally worth it to me. I see lots of anecdotal evidence of Delta.com showing a lower level then advancing to a higher mileage total, so I just wanted to report that it actually happens in the other direction, occasionally.
Add in my 2 free nights at the Fairmont Banff Springs, and I am excited for my value