Gah.
After lacking the fuel to circle the bad weather at Denver for any amount of time, my flight from Texas diverted to pick up fuel then return, by which point my connecting flight had long since departed.
Now, laying over in a very-slightly discounted hotel with nothing but yesterday’s clothes and a standby ticket for the next day and all that is probably standard to business flyers, but some things suck more than they have to.
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[li]The line for the single open “service” counter was 50 people long, and took over an hour to get through. Having only enough people to manage things when nothing is going wrong is insane for an airline[/li][li]It would have been nice of them to upgrade me a class for the inconvenience[/li][li]Despite being printed out 10 minutes beforehand, my ticket out of Texas indicated the wrong gate, as did one of the two sets of overhead monitors. I know some people barely made the flight because of that.[/li][li]I’m going to try to get a picture of it, but United has this ‘Red Carpet’ class program that totally rules. They’ve made a ‘Y’ shape out of those retractable-belt/poles, so you enter the plane through one of two entrances that are perhaps 5’ long. On one of them, there’s the regular floor. But on the other (get this), there’s this red welcome mat! Huh? Isn’t that great? I wish I could walk on it. :rolleyes: [/li][li]There’s no place for me to even plug my laptop in anywhere. Full marks to QWest, the fully connected workspace of which I’m using for free right now.[/li][/ul]
Oh yeah, and today is Thanksgiving, so it looks like I’ll be spending it at the Coffee Beanery instead of with my parents.