Holy fuck what is so important that you don't want 10k I'm still kicking myself for passing up $1,500 2 weeks ago.
Amsterdam is now limiting the amount of passengers in or out of the airport. The whole aviation industry right now
We head home from Ireland Monday, and Delta has already emailed us asking us to consider changing our flight to Thursday or Tuesday. My wife and I both have our work shit with us because we expect delays getting home, so if we get offered enough money to take a different flight home, we are pouncing.
I almost always select the 'volunteer for voucher' option when offered on the AA app. 90% of the time they don't need it, but if it's $300 or more and I don't need to make a meeting I'll gladly sit in the AAdmirals Club or Centurion Lounge for a bit longer in exchange for the money. I usually use them for my wife and I to fly places in first class.
need more details: Delta would have had to escalate past multiple waves of increases, starting at some small amount like $600 (likely in airline credit first, then switching over to cash), but how does it go from $600 to $10,000 with no one taking the bait in the interim? I find it hard to believe on a 200 person flight, there weren't 8 people moved to accept $800-1000-1200, and on and on. Or, is poor operational conditions driving that much fear to where no one budges for say $5,000? For a family of four, that's $20,000 cash.
WestJet via Delta just cancelled my flight with less than 48hrs till departure update: rebooking to another flight was easy enough due to the abundance of ATL options
From his article, I'd divorce his dumbass. On a recent Delta Air Lines flight, my family and I were traveling to Minneapolis to catch a flight to Alaska. As we sat on the plane waiting to leave the gate, the announcement overhead explained that the flight was apparently oversold and they were looking for eight volunteers. In exchange for their seats, Delta was offering $10,000 cash. "If you have Apple Pay, you'll even have the money right now," the flight attendant said. Ten. Thousand. Dollars. On the one hand, you can certainly make the case that $10,000 is a lot of money to give people for the inconvenience of taking a later flight. I think, for the most part, that's correct. It is a lot of money, and if the later flight still gets you wherever you were headed in a reasonable amount of time, it seems like you'd be silly not to take it. (Spoiler alert: We did not take it for reasons I'm not going to get into because my wife is still not pleased about it.)
Delta overbooked our departure to Ireland by six. A family took the offer of 1k per person to take a flight the same time the next day. In the case it’s probably worth it but I don’t know. What sucked is they checked luggage so it took 90 minutes of us sitting on the runway while they retrieved their bags.
Yeah, I read that. Still mind blowing and possibly some perceived shame in raising your hand to give up your seat. Unless a wedding or funeral, etc. it would be on the table.
walking around montreal and like...half of the streets you want to use are pedestrian only its incredible, big fan, reminds me of paris
It's pretty spectacular. Banff/Jasper and the BC Coast are two of the most beautiful places in the world, and I don't think that's hyperbole. Tofino is next on my list. Want to surf but I'll probably chicken out.
I've told this story a million times, but I don't care. Showed up to Montreal for a bachelor party like 7-8 years ago. Champ says he can score some green, and on arrival also has mushrooms. Hell yea. My Alabama ass, in 10-15 degree weather with one small coat, walks to his apartment where he and his friend are out of their mind on shrooms and, for about 15 minutes, they try to roll a joint to no avail. Eat shrooms, go to a strip club at like 4 PM on a Thursday, get kicked out of said strip club, drive north and go skiing. There was some poutine and french words along the way.
Aside from my friend, nobody can understand how incredible that moment was. Glad you and your friends had fun.
Champ took me to some Osheaga after party where dude from Arcade Fire was DJing. And we got some 3am bagels. Great dude.
Being in 45* water is tough. Lots of constant ice cream head aches. Your biggest warmth generating session is when you piss in your wetsuit. You'll probably lose dexterity in your hands and ~30 minutes after you get out, until you warm up, you will not be able to grip anything.
Champ also hooked it up for me when I was in Montreal for a bachelor party. Had a great weekend in Montreal.
Wish I knew it was going on before I got here so could have made it to more of it Heading home now. Air Canada legit schedules the tightest I've ever seen, my place will have completed 5 segments already before my flight. With narrow layovers everywhere, no wonder operationally they're a mess.
Yep. awesome city. More people should visit there since it is so close. closest thing to going overseas.
let me know if you need any tips. Took a great trip there 2 years ago. Definitely hike to the Plain of Six Glaciers teahouse if it is still open
Champ I am going to Saturday's Osheaga show. How do I get hooked up with this afterparty nonsense? can't wait to eat st. vitaeur's bagels
Going up to Banff also in two weeks. Been reviewing a lot of the hiking options on AllTrails and apparently there is a mother grizzly bear with three cubs tormenting hikers on this trail. I will also be with my wife who happens to be 5 months pregnant so I’m not sure she’ll agree to doing this hike. Otherwise, it looks awesome.
Maybe the grizzly will sense your wife is also with child and welcome y’all with open paws to her sleuth.
Rented an RV with Outdoorsy this weekend. In a continually surprising way, the website/service has been insanely bad. Charging a delivery fee is one thing and understandable, but then all correspondence from the company has been “pick up your RV here.” Sign into the website and it’s clear that it’s being delivered, but emails are silent. Similarly, haven’t received a single email with the all-in price (splitting it with a buddy, so wanted to forward the email). Rental begins today, and zero communication from owner or the company. Had to log in and send owner a message saying, “can you at least provide a window for when this bitch is being delivered?” Owner’s response was that delivery is at 3pm but she doesn’t want to wait in traffic, so she’d prefer to deliver it at 2pm or I Uber to her to get it (notably, I’ve had to pay for insurance that forbids me from driving it - it’s going to be stationary all weekend). Topping it all off, they spam me with text messages unrelated to the rental. 0/10 will never use again.
Anyone often fly to an airport on a separate airline to get a connecting flight abroad? I booked another trip to Nicaragua without looking at flight prices and they are like 1200....which just seems stupid. It's not even 4 hours. I'm toying with the idea of flying ATL->Miami or DFW on Delta with a mix of points and companion passes, then flying from there to Managua. But it'll be on American or a smaller airline. So I'll have to try to get the domestic baggage and get to international. I guess enough layover timing is the main concern.
I do that sort of stuff regularly. Maybe a little stressful because it isn't all connected, but you can do it.
I do it a lot, too. Just risky if that first flight gets delayed, especially with the way things are currently.
I do that all the time because my closest intl gateway is PDX and pretty much any award flight I'm going to take is elsewhere so repositioning is always built into my itinerary. I generally go pretty conservative, allowing for a long layover (delays, claim bag, re-check, re-clear security, lounge hard )... though sometimes I also build the stop-over in, which obviously eliminates the "transiting" game. All of that said, I'd be nervous about doing this right now if I'm honest.
Today I learned you can use global pass to get through customs in Canada on your way out Bypassed at least a 40 minute line
I have done it. But if this trip is in the near future I don't think I would right now. Too many flights are being cancelled, and often with less than 24 hours notice. Normally it would not be a problem, but until airlines start scheduling for their staff or staffing for their schedules it seems like there is too much risk for missing the international flight.
what were your restaurant highlights in MTL? Hoping you did Liverpool House or Joe Beef for nostalgia.
Did garde Manger, Joe beef, au pied de cochon for big meals. Au pied was great but significantly behind the other two. Casual poulet mouille was probably the best bite of food the whole trip. First thing we ate and want to go back. Grabbed a bag of things from olive et gourmand this morning that were all insanely good. Schwartz we did and it was fine but would not really recommend.