United's "Operation North Pole/Fantasy" Flights

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Dec 4, 2011, 10:41 pm

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at iad n the flight usually leaves out of like D5 or a c gate which is not decorated (but the gate at the airport) and Usually arrives at gate D30

The end of D where british airways use to fly out of is what is turned into the north pole and that entire area is decorated as the north pole. United goes all out of this at IAD it is really nice i have seen it a couple of times

Dec 6, 2011, 7:36 pm

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Dec 6, 2011, 7:56 pm

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Here are some pics from Saturday in SFO

Dec 6, 2011, 8:04 pm

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On the monitor it says time difference 8 hours ahead. Wouldn't the exact north pole be in all time zones so no difference?

Dec 6, 2011, 9:04 pm

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Dec 7, 2011, 4:47 pm

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They held the Fantasy Flight from LAX this past Saturday... here was my post & pics on BoardingArea:

http://boardingarea.com/blogs/freque...lax-yesterday/

Haven't read through this thread, so here's the official website and I'll certainly be donating... such a cool event. ^

Dec 7, 2011, 5:32 pm

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Thanks for the link ^ I'll be donating some money towards the next fantasy flight.. And I can use my UA credit card to get miles

Dec 9, 2011, 5:02 am

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at iad n the flight usually leaves out of like D5 or a c gate which is not decorated (but the gate at the airport) and Usually arrives at gate D30

Last year, it was right across from one of the RCCs, maybe the D8 one. It looked really cool, and the flight showed up on all the departure monitors, etc. I did a double-take when studying the monitors in the RCC and seeing "North Pole" listed among the other destinations.

Dec 15, 2011, 5:07 am

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I saw the North Pole flight yesterday (12/14) at Newark. It was at gate C120. I had to stop for second to make sure I read it correctly

Dec 15, 2011, 3:11 pm

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Some of the Arizona State University Sun Devils football players and cheerleaders were on hand for the PHX fantasy flight. They used Gates C and D which used to be UAX/occasional mainline but I believe have now been ceded to Great Lakes and it appears it worked quite well.