The Trip Home

Just another note about the messed up flights that they have been booking us on.

To go home after my hitch, they put me on United. Well, no fault of United – I have frequent flier miles with them. But, I do not have any preferred status like with NW and their partners. Where I am Platinum and well deserving I might add.

So I go to check in at the airport. I am not familiar with their touch screens, which immediately irritates me. I put my card in, and bring up the information. Ohhhhh now they want $15 to check a bag…. Ohhh and if I want to upgrade, well that would be $325 and no guarantee a first class seat. Hell with that ! ! ! Here is my $15 and my bag to check. So the lady comes back by. She had been by about two times before “you doing ok?” Yeah Yeah…. I got it. So I give her my bag and say. “Corporate is booking flights differently, looks like I don’t have a platinum status and will be paying for my luggage and no first class upgrades”. She gives me a somewhat of a dirty look, but mainly perplexed look and takes my bag.

As I whine to Pepe about this, he says “what did you think they would do”. Well, if they had any customer service – I wouldn’t have been paying for my bag and would have been given a seat in first class ! ! ! And that is what I completely expected…
The first leg of the trip into Denver, there was no first class seating on the air craft, and I was in row 25. Then from Denver to Portland, there was but this time I was in row 31, oh and the young couple that were sitting in the same row with me. Had a baby on their lap…. I SLEPT ! ! ! !