Mileage Running for Air France New First Class/La Première
Feb 12, 2015, 8:17 pm
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For a brief moment before I switched to UA, I was doing IAH-ATL-GSO and back on DL for work every week, and found myself in that stupidly tiny SC a lot. Haven't been in that one in years, I normally seek out one of the ones on the 2nd floor if I have the time.
Feb 13, 2015, 12:03 am
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Feb 13, 2015, 12:03 am
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Feb 13, 2015, 1:16 am
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And off we go again for another day of "going nowhere" on Delta.
February 5th
• Denver-Salt Lake City
• Salt Lake City-Portland
• Portland-Seattle
• Seattle-Salt Lake City
• Salt Lake City-Denver
I left home just after 7AM and amazingly arrived at DIA only 30 minutes later. Pre-Check was a breeze and I was in the A concourse Admirals Club by 7:40AM.
Headed for the train and the C concourse 30 minutes later.
Denver-Salt Lake City
DL 4848
CRJ-700
8:53A-10:30A
February 5, 2015
Another great crew this morning on the return leg of their early morning SLC-DEN flight. And naturally open bar PDB, #7 of 7 DL flights. Multiple passes of the breakfast snack basket.
Sunny morning and beautiful views on our descent.
With an on time arrival, I headed to the SLC Sky Club for 30 minutes between flights.
Pretty nice food spread although I arrived during the transition from breakfast to lunch.
Salt Lake City-Portland
DL 1741
737-800
11:30A-12:38P
February 5, 2015
Good crew and now 8 for 8 on PDBs. But it was clown central this morning as the guy across the aisle watched a video without a headset. Yeah, we all want to hear your stupid party.
And the doofus beside me that brought on a full Starbucks and then proceeded to fall asleep. Had to wake him just before take-off to tell him he may want to hold onto his coffee on take-off.
Another on time arrival in Portland where I had nearly two hours to kill before my SEA flight.
The old PDX carpet that they are apparently replacing.
Off to the Sky Club.
And the lunch time food spread...
Much of which I sampled...
At T-30, I headed out to the gate next door.
Portland-Seattle
DL 4790
CRJ-700
2:27P-3:14P
February 5, 2015
Another great crew with PDBs and inflight drinks despite the quick flight of only about 20 minutes.
Boeing Field.
And the lovely weather continued in the Pacific Northwest.
Ramp Control Tower with 12th man flag, despite the last minute choke.
And the trek over to the S Gates.
And the S Sky Club.
My SEA-SLC was running 20 minutes late and left the Sky Club arriving at S4 as the inbound was still deplaning. Nevertheless gate lice were standing in line, the most obnoxious of which was a POS who yapped on her cell phone the entire time.
Seattle-Salt Lake City
DL 1457
737-900ER
4:22P-7:15P (sked)
5:05P-7:44P (actual)
February 5, 2015
OMG, what did I do to deserve this. The loud mouth POS is my seat mate.
On with the Bose and up with the volume.
Nice new plane with large seat back screen and power outlets.
Another great crew with PDB #10 of 10 so far. IFE worked great as I watched the Cavs pummel the Clippers on the way to Salt Lake.
We pulled up to D4 at 7:44P which should have still given me 26 minutes to make my connection. But for some reason, the 8:10P SLC-DEN departure time was moved up to 8:00P and from a different concourse, C5. Yikes. Fortunately, I was the first off the plane and hustled my butt over to C5 arriving at 7:49P. A couple more boarded and the door was closed at 7:55P. OK, that was close.
Salt Lake City-Denver
DL 939
A320
8:10P-9:38P (sked)
7:55P-9:10P (actual)
February 2, 2015
Another open bar PDB makes it 11 in a row for Delta on this run. An old dark A320 means reading and surfing the web on Gogo. With the early SLC departure, and a direct route into DEN, we arrived nearly 30 minutes early. Unlike UA, a GA was waiting at the jet bridge and I was at home by 10PM.
Up next:
February 9th
Denver-Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City-Las Vegas
Las Vegas-Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City-Denver
and the beautiful new LAS Centurion Lounge.
February 5th
• Denver-Salt Lake City
• Salt Lake City-Portland
• Portland-Seattle
• Seattle-Salt Lake City
• Salt Lake City-Denver
I left home just after 7AM and amazingly arrived at DIA only 30 minutes later. Pre-Check was a breeze and I was in the A concourse Admirals Club by 7:40AM.
Headed for the train and the C concourse 30 minutes later.
Denver-Salt Lake City
DL 4848
CRJ-700
8:53A-10:30A
February 5, 2015
Another great crew this morning on the return leg of their early morning SLC-DEN flight. And naturally open bar PDB, #7 of 7 DL flights. Multiple passes of the breakfast snack basket.
Sunny morning and beautiful views on our descent.
With an on time arrival, I headed to the SLC Sky Club for 30 minutes between flights.
Pretty nice food spread although I arrived during the transition from breakfast to lunch.
Salt Lake City-Portland
DL 1741
737-800
11:30A-12:38P
February 5, 2015
Good crew and now 8 for 8 on PDBs. But it was clown central this morning as the guy across the aisle watched a video without a headset. Yeah, we all want to hear your stupid party.
And the doofus beside me that brought on a full Starbucks and then proceeded to fall asleep. Had to wake him just before take-off to tell him he may want to hold onto his coffee on take-off.
Another on time arrival in Portland where I had nearly two hours to kill before my SEA flight.
The old PDX carpet that they are apparently replacing.
Off to the Sky Club.
And the lunch time food spread...
Much of which I sampled...
At T-30, I headed out to the gate next door.
Portland-Seattle
DL 4790
CRJ-700
2:27P-3:14P
February 5, 2015
Another great crew with PDBs and inflight drinks despite the quick flight of only about 20 minutes.
Boeing Field.
And the lovely weather continued in the Pacific Northwest.
Ramp Control Tower with 12th man flag, despite the last minute choke.
And the trek over to the S Gates.
And the S Sky Club.
My SEA-SLC was running 20 minutes late and left the Sky Club arriving at S4 as the inbound was still deplaning. Nevertheless gate lice were standing in line, the most obnoxious of which was a POS who yapped on her cell phone the entire time.
Seattle-Salt Lake City
DL 1457
737-900ER
4:22P-7:15P (sked)
5:05P-7:44P (actual)
February 5, 2015
OMG, what did I do to deserve this. The loud mouth POS is my seat mate.
On with the Bose and up with the volume.
Nice new plane with large seat back screen and power outlets.
Another great crew with PDB #10 of 10 so far. IFE worked great as I watched the Cavs pummel the Clippers on the way to Salt Lake.
We pulled up to D4 at 7:44P which should have still given me 26 minutes to make my connection. But for some reason, the 8:10P SLC-DEN departure time was moved up to 8:00P and from a different concourse, C5. Yikes. Fortunately, I was the first off the plane and hustled my butt over to C5 arriving at 7:49P. A couple more boarded and the door was closed at 7:55P. OK, that was close.
Salt Lake City-Denver
DL 939
A320
8:10P-9:38P (sked)
7:55P-9:10P (actual)
February 2, 2015
Another open bar PDB makes it 11 in a row for Delta on this run. An old dark A320 means reading and surfing the web on Gogo. With the early SLC departure, and a direct route into DEN, we arrived nearly 30 minutes early. Unlike UA, a GA was waiting at the jet bridge and I was at home by 10PM.
Up next:
February 9th
Denver-Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City-Las Vegas
Las Vegas-Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City-Denver
and the beautiful new LAS Centurion Lounge.
Last edited by SFO777; Feb 15, 2015 at 3:59 pm
Feb 13, 2015, 1:33 am
#20
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Thanks mike&co.
LOL. Thanks worldtraveller73.
Thank you krazykanuck. Yeah, I think that's the last time I'll be visiting that Sky Club.
Feb 13, 2015, 5:05 pm
#29
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: CDG
Programs: A bit of this and a bit of that
Posts: 777
Ahh, another outstanding trip report by SFO777. We absolutely love them! Good thing AF doesn't require you to fly them for their Elite Status. The new F looks very similar to QR's a380 First class, doesn't it? At the moment, I'd say AF offers a better product since QR didn't even open a FC lounge yet..