Jan 14 2008
But Where’s My Luggage Tags?
Dear American Airlines,
I received my shiny new AAdvantage Platinum card in the mail. Thank you so much for recognizing the continued patronizing you’ve given me patronage I’ve given you since I started all of this business travel in 1999. It’s nice to know that I can count on American to get me where I want to go eventually better late than never.
The upgrades to first class are very welcome. The seats are comfortable even though you no longer give pillows except there’s always sitting someone behind me so I can’t recline and the flight attendants are welcoming. They serve swill coffee and stale cookies granola bars with a smile. Even on the first flight out in the morning.
Speaking of the first flight out, I’m assuming that since you’ve changed the time of your first flight from Detroit to Chicago from damned early 7:10 a.m. to Oh mah holy hell early 6:50 a.m. that we will be less likely to encounter delays due to ground stops at O’Horror O’Hare. That will be great news - on time arrivals are much more relaxing for business travelers rushing to get downtown for their first meetings. It fuckin’ better happen too, because I’ll have to get up at 4:00 a.m. to get to the airport now instead of the leisurely 4:30 a.m. I’ve been getting up to make that flight.
I look forward to another peaceful and stress free flight tomorrow. Thank heaven I saved some of Shortman’s leftover post-surgery Vicodin.
See you then!
Love, The Hotfessional
HOT LOVE
I love to fly. I hate to fly. The convenience is great, the hassles suck big time. Mixed messages, I know.
Jen on the Edge’s last blog post..I am neither preppy nor tanned
Hate airlines. Hate them. See post about lost luggage on latest flight. Argh.
Heidi
Heidi’s last blog post..I’m A Survivor…
In Dallas, I fly out of Love Field, which is like Meigs (sp?).
I fly Cattlecar ailines, aka Southwest, but they are ontime, courteaous as a cattle prod and they dont loose stuff like bags.
So I like them.
If you want a real trip, when I was working for Marathon oil, they would fly their corporate jet to pick up people coming into Findley Ohio by meeting people at Meigs. You would fly commercial into Ohairy, walk past where the hare Krishna’s would be camped out, right at the HUB of the terminal, go down a flight of stairs to the tarmac, and there was an ex Korean War pilot in a old bubble copter. The exact kind used on MASH. You would give the guy your bag, he would toss it into the OUTDOOR rack, secure it with a web bungee thingy, and you would get into the front seat with him at the controls. You would look down and see NOTHING under your feet except for two feet straps like the ones you wommen use at the docs office for that annual thingy you do, that and a plastic shield that looked like it wasnt there when you were flying. Then you would take off, fly about 10 feet driving between jest turbine wash back and forth it seemed for 10 minutes until you got to a place where you could go up. Then at tenement level you would fly to meigs, go out past the field over the lake, then do a tomahawk turn and come back in and land. When you were flying 20 feet over the apartment buildings you swore that a kid with a brick could take that old copter down with a girly toss.
i loved it!
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There are a couple of shows on UK TV that basically consist of cameramen standing in the departure lounge, filming everything that goes wrong. One of them is rather unimaginatively called “Airport”. Watching 5 minutes of that show convinced me never to fly.
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There you go setting yourself up again…
Ooh I hate flying American. Now Alaska Airlines, me lurvs them so much I’ll pay an extra $100 a seat to fly them.
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The JOYS of flying.
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American is better than United. At least when you leave out of Chicago. Despite being a hub and based out of Chicago.
Good luck!
Kristabella’s last blog post..Party-Free Weekend
You crack me up.
As a business traveler myself, I feel your pain.
Hank’s last blog post..Blast from the Past
I’m lucky enough to fly on the corporate jet most of the time. But one time I got uppity and decided to fly commercial so I wouldn’t be a “slave” to the CEOs schedule. Boy am I fucking stupid. I ended up missing my connecting flight and staying in a crack whore hotel room with no luggage. I got home 12 hours after the corpoate plane. It was god’s way of telling me to appreciate the damned jet.
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Hi-LAR-ious! Hope this flight is better than some of the last
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Fabulous! Simply Fabulous.
Hopefully, they will hear your pleas. Then maybe they will make certain that you have a heated seat with a freshly fluffed pillow and a nicely warmed blanket the next time you fly in an effort to make up for all the b.s. that they have passed along in the past.
I love first class. It instantly turns me into a snob, pitying all the “little people” in coach. Of course, I’ve flown first class exactly twice in my life, but still.
Hope it goes smoothly for you…
Sue’s last blog post..It’s Official…
Just keep going and come here. I have the ice already. Margaritas baby.
Have a nice flight.
Kelley’s last blog post..It’s all about you…
I don’t mind flying per se but that sounds like altogether too much trouble for my blood. Maybe being the Avon lady doesn’t suck after all…..lol.
Gypsy’s last blog post..Lazy days…..
Does first class actually make flying bearable?
I hope it does. Two hours before a flight leaves. That is a wait I do not love.
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So now you’re Fancy Cattle instead of just part of the general herd like the rest of us who fly!
Melissa’s last blog post..The Fun Never Ends!
Hahahaha! I’ve flown between O’Horror and Detroit. The only good thing about it is that the flight’s so short, the plane climbs and immediately starts to land.
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Waiting patiently for reasons why we dislike and updates from meeting with Abhorrent Person.
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My grandfather used to call United - untied because nothing went right with them. I don’t fly often enough, but O’Hare was crazy when I was there a couple years back.
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