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| Holocaine | Ah, the wonder that is a good shower. | 00:34 |
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| chrisjrn | Also a mediocre shower after a flight | 00:36 |
| Holocaine | The goodness of the shower is adjusted based on the length of time you've just spent in the air. | 00:36 |
| Holocaine | Grading on a curve, somewhat. | 00:37 |
| Holocaine | And when it's been 2.5 hours, then 3 hours on the ground, then 1 hour sitting at the gate while they futz with paperwork, and then 13:50 in the air, then an hour and a half on the ground mostly spent in a queue to get your luggage on to your connecting flight (because see above delay) followed by another hour sitting at the gate because reasons and then finally getting home, any shower would be good. | 00:38 |
| Holocaine | Well it was probably more like 13 in the air since they made up about 45 minutes of that hour spent sorting out mismatched paperwork. | 00:39 |
| chrisjrn | yay | 00:50 |
| Holocaine | But yeah. SYD T2 was a train wreck this morning. | 00:55 |
| Holocaine | Every counter had monster queues. | 00:55 |
| chrisjrn | I'm not surprised | 00:55 |
| Holocaine | People standing in the Flight Closing queues nearly missed their flights. | 00:55 |
| chrisjrn | eeek | 00:55 |
| Holocaine | I was all set to be bumped on to another flight (given my departure time was 07:45 and I was still standing in the queue at 07:25). | 00:56 |
| chrisjrn | but I'd imagine substantial delays | 00:57 |
| chrisjrn | wait./.. queuing at T2? | 00:57 |
| Holocaine | So what screwed up the runway? I only heard about that after I got here. | 00:57 |
| chrisjrn | What about domestic transfer | 00:57 |
| chrisjrn | Oh, UA840 blew two tyres on takeoff | 00:57 |
| chrisjrn | had to do an unscheduled landing at SYD once it had dumped all the fuel | 00:57 |
| Holocaine | VA2 got to the gate about 6:30, plus immigration, plus waiting for my baggage (which had somehow gotten de-prioritied despite being tagged as such) == missed cutoff for transfer checkin. | 00:57 |
| chrisjrn | And this happened to the runway: http://t.co/THTX9ecahR | 00:57 |
| tpb | Title: Twitter / BrendenWood: The two blown tyres on United ... (at t.co) | 00:58 |
| Holocaine | Had to take my luggage on the transfer bus. | 00:58 |
| chrisjrn | Oh right. VA people rip priority tags off incoming bags at LAX, the fuckers | 00:58 |
| Holocaine | Yeah, that'd hack up the surface a bit. | 00:58 |
| Holocaine | No, the tags were there. | 00:58 |
| Holocaine | Both the VA one I'd left on from my trip over and the DL one they put on at SEA. | 00:58 |
| Holocaine | But my bag came out well after the other priority bags had finished. | 00:58 |
| chrisjrn | interesting | 00:59 |
| chrisjrn | Send in a complaint about it :P | 00:59 |
| Holocaine | gold@velocity? | 01:00 |
| chrisjrn | yeah | 01:00 |
| chrisjrn | "luggage delay made me miss the transfer deadline" | 01:00 |
| chrisjrn | "Toll DNata contractors are incompetent" | 01:00 |
| chrisjrn | "fruitcake" | 01:01 |
| Holocaine | "I demand that you remedy this by giving me the last 30SCs I need to make Platinum." | 01:03 |
| chrisjrn | Eh, get a flight credit :P | 01:04 |
| chrisjrn | Thanks to various complaints + my Flyer credit card, I only paid ~$270 out of pocket for my SYD-PER J flights :) | 01:04 |
| Holocaine | How do you normally finish up your complaint emails? Do you ask for flight credits specifically or do you leave it open? | 01:18 |
| chrisjrn | Oh, I enumerate very precisely how the delays/incompetence affects me, and then leave it ambiguous as to what I want | 01:20 |
| chrisjrn | i.e. stupidiy at a domestic transfer desk meant I missed a flight connection, which meant I missed a morning in Melbourne once, so I mentioned it cost me an extra itinerary's worth of flights | 01:21 |
| praetorian | 5 + 21/10 [Virgin Australi] Congratulations, You Have Been Upgraded! | 01:59 |
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| chrisjrn | WOO | 02:27 |
| praetorian | 1A | 02:28 |
| praetorian | best. | 02:28 |
| praetorian | fyi, paid upgrades are also a Z | 02:28 |
| praetorian | but not ZUPGD | 02:28 |
| praetorian | well actually. maybe it is | 02:28 |
| praetorian | but mine was ZUPSV | 02:28 |
| praetorian | (i'm guessing because i came rom a saver fare?) | 02:29 |
| Holocaine | praetorian: How much was it to upgrade? | 02:29 |
| praetorian | i bid $350 | 02:29 |
| praetorian | and it wasaccepted | 02:29 |
| praetorian | i probably would have lowered it in hindsight. | 02:29 |
| praetorian | ($350 was on their "poor" rating | 02:29 |
| praetorian | i think $425 or something was the suggeted | 02:30 |
| chrisjrn | nice | 02:30 |
| Holocaine | praetorian: What's the segment? | 02:30 |
| praetorian | SYD->PER | 02:30 |
| praetorian | i.e. A330 dinner at it's premium. | 02:32 |
| Holocaine | Which flights do they do dinner service on? | 02:39 |
| chrisjrn | Holocaine: Anything after 0930 | 02:40 |
| chrisjrn | and before 2300 | 02:40 |
| chrisjrn | iirc | 02:40 |
| chrisjrn | (i.e. Lunch & DInner are the same) | 02:41 |
| Holocaine | *nod* | 02:41 |
| chrisjrn | So I have an 0920 departure and a 1030 departure | 02:42 |
| Holocaine | MEL-PER is dep 0930 arr 18:45. | 02:42 |
| Holocaine | Erm. | 02:42 |
| Holocaine | dep. 1730. | 02:42 |
| Holocaine | PER-MEL is dep 0930 arr 16:05. | 02:42 |
| chrisjrn | 0930 should arrive 10:00ish | 02:43 |
| Holocaine | I should start roughing out my presentation. | 02:45 |
| chrisjrn | for Perth? | 02:45 |
| Holocaine | Yeah. | 02:45 |
| Holocaine | I know the kind of things I want to say but I want to have a better idea. | 02:45 |
| Holocaine | This is the biggest thing I've presented at, y'know. | 02:45 |
| chrisjrn | yeah, fair enough too | 02:47 |
| praetorian | hrm i should find what the current J menu is | 02:56 |
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