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Aug 17, 2014, 12:40 pm
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Aug 17, 2014, 2:26 pm
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Couple interesting things today which played into my ego. Yeah, I'm a DYKWIA at the moment.
Flew ATL-MIA today and an announcement was made at 10k feet: "We'd like to extend a special welcome to our Skymiles members and our Diamond elite on board."
That was me! Only my fourth flight as a DM.
Flew ATL-MIA today and an announcement was made at 10k feet: "We'd like to extend a special welcome to our Skymiles members and our Diamond elite on board."
That was me! Only my fourth flight as a DM.
Aug 17, 2014, 3:26 pm
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Aug 17, 2014, 5:34 pm
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Aug 17, 2014, 7:17 pm
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Aug 17, 2014, 8:19 pm
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Aug 18, 2014, 6:14 pm
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Aug 18, 2014, 7:18 pm
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Aug 19, 2014, 11:22 pm
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Couple interesting things today which played into my ego. Yeah, I'm a DYKWIA at the moment.
Flew ATL-MIA today and an announcement was made at 10k feet: "We'd like to extend a special welcome to our Skymiles members and our Diamond elite on board." That was me! Only my fourth flight as a DM.
Yesterday, I was sitting next to a FO, who got the UG... his BP read RU class. He was up in the overhead mid-flight and I asked him to stow my bag for me (I was window seat). I received the proper KM treatment from a FO for the first time!!
Now I get to celebrate for a couple days with my girl here in SoFla. Hope everyone is having a nice weekend.
Flew ATL-MIA today and an announcement was made at 10k feet: "We'd like to extend a special welcome to our Skymiles members and our Diamond elite on board."
That was me! Only my fourth flight as a DM.Yesterday, I was sitting next to a FO, who got the UG... his BP read RU class. He was up in the overhead mid-flight and I asked him to stow my bag for me (I was window seat). I received the proper KM treatment from a FO for the first time!!
Now I get to celebrate for a couple days with my girl here in SoFla. Hope everyone is having a nice weekend.
PS. I'm flying out tonight. I sm going to RSW. I will earned more miles. I will became FO again and then Gold Medallion. I still wait for the ticket price. I am going to BSL in December, but I wait the ticket price will come down. I will keep eye on it.
Aug 20, 2014, 7:04 pm
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OMG, just realized I'm flying tomorrow without status. 
DL SGF-ATL-PHX on an AS award. So far, the only thing open is back of the bus, middle seat. I'll have a rollaboard that I won't check, but I'll be a kettle with boarding group 99 and fighting for space in the overhead bin.
This'll be the first time I've flown in coach as a non-elite since probably 2007. Wish me luck...
DL SGF-ATL-PHX on an AS award. So far, the only thing open is back of the bus, middle seat. I'll have a rollaboard that I won't check, but I'll be a kettle with boarding group 99 and fighting for space in the overhead bin.
This'll be the first time I've flown in coach as a non-elite since probably 2007. Wish me luck...
Aug 20, 2014, 7:18 pm
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OMG, just realized I'm flying tomorrow without status.
DL SGF-ATL-PHX on an AS award. So far, the only thing open is back of the bus, middle seat. I'll have a rollaboard that I won't check, but I'll be a kettle with boarding group 99 and fighting for space in the overhead bin.
This'll be the first time I've flown in coach as a non-elite since probably 2007. Wish me luck...
DL SGF-ATL-PHX on an AS award. So far, the only thing open is back of the bus, middle seat. I'll have a rollaboard that I won't check, but I'll be a kettle with boarding group 99 and fighting for space in the overhead bin.
This'll be the first time I've flown in coach as a non-elite since probably 2007. Wish me luck...
Aug 20, 2014, 7:37 pm
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Aug 20, 2014, 8:11 pm
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You haven't accepted that seat yet, have you? In a full flight situation, the DL computer tends to throw the unassigned into whatever non-EC coach seats they've got left at airport check-in, whether preferred or not, and if you let the computer spin that roulette wheel, you'll often end up with something better than the middle back coach seat.
Aug 20, 2014, 9:37 pm
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Well, Guys!
I'm Silver Medallion again. You can say congratulations to me. I have a few more trips for this year and then I will fly to Switzerland in December. I will became Gold Medallion.
I'm Silver Medallion again. You can say congratulations to me. I have a few more trips for this year and then I will fly to Switzerland in December. I will became Gold Medallion.
Aug 20, 2014, 10:21 pm
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You have the required MQMs to be Silver and may well get the required number to get Gold Medallion, but will you have spent the required MQDs?