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Cacafuego posted:Question for you international road warriors - next year, we’re flying NBO-DOH on Qatar in business class, coming in at night (~2300), then flying out in the morning DOH-PHL on AA in business. I had planned on getting a hotel room for the night as they have one in DOH, but how does that work with customs and such? Would we collect luggage in DOH, go through customs/immigration, check in at the hotel, then come back in the morning and go through security? Or is the hotel airside behind security? What time is the DOH-PHL flight? Leaving the airport to go to your hotel and back sounds less than ideal, especially if you want to maximize sleep. I would try to stay airside at the airport, and have your bags checked all the way through from NBO to PHL. For airside sleeping options, you can try seeing if you can upgrade to Al Safwa First Class lounge (I think it's about $150 per person) which has a "sleeping room", make sure to confirm availability before purchasing access. They're not really sleeping rooms, they're basically mini hotel rooms with ensuite bathrooms. There's sleeping chairs in the Al Mourjan Business Class lounge, but these usually get filled and are not that comfortable. The Al Mourjan Garden lounge also has the same sleeping chair but in separate private rooms. These are all first come first served. Note that access to both of these is based on flying Business, but I'm not sure if AA business qualifies the same way QR business does. Certainly since your incoming is with QR you can probably claim that you flew QR biz and the AA biz is a codeshare or connection or something. There's lastly the Oryx Hotel that's airside but is usually quite expensive: like $300+ for a room and they often sell out.
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i fly airplanes posted:There's lastly the Oryx Hotel that's airside but is usually quite expensive: like $300+ for a room and they often sell out. NBO-DOH arrives 2315 and DOH-PHL departs 0845. I was planning on staying airside and paying for the Oryx. We don’t mind paying $300 (currently $308) since we’re spending less than that for round trip business class flights. That’s the big question though - since they’re not linked and on different airlines, I assume we’d need to pick up our bags, clear customs, then some how get airside again to stay at the hotel. Would AA be available after midnight to checkout bags for a morning flight?
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Wife, toddler, and I are flying steerage on a United/Lufthansa flight via Munich. Does Lufthansa have a process for upgrades at a "reasonable" price? Is there a way to be more/less likely to get an offer?
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Cacafuego posted:That’s the big question though - since they’re not linked and on different airlines, I assume we’d need to pick up our bags, clear customs, then some how get airside again to stay at the hotel. Would AA be available after midnight to checkout bags for a morning flight? No, and assuming your bags don't have valuables, I would just push hard to get it through-checked at NBO or have it sorted at the transfer point by handing AA transfer desk/gate agent your baggage tags and making it their problem. Do not clear immigration and baggage claim just for bags.
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Residency Evil posted:Wife, toddler, and I are flying steerage on a United/Lufthansa flight via Munich. Does Lufthansa have a process for upgrades at a "reasonable" price? Is there a way to be more/less likely to get an offer? Pretty much no and no. You can put in an offer but I haven’t seen much reasonable
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Where are the best places to eat around PIT? It looks like I'll be spending my weekdays around there for the next month or so.
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SpeedFreek posted:Where are the best places to eat around PIT? It looks like I'll be spending my weekdays around there for the next month or so. Assuming you mean the city and not the actual airport, Pittsburgh has lots of good food. Here are a few that come to mind. Pusadee's garden - Thai. Make reservations as far in advance as possible. Fig & Ash - Modern American Morcilla - Spanish tapas Gaucho Parilla - Argentinean, grilled meat Scratch & Co. - Brunch here was pretty good Tako - Popular taco spot downtown. I was too drunk to remember how good they were. COBRA - Japanese BBQ / wagyu + karaoke Thyme Machine - absolutely baller breakfast sandwiches Siempre Algo - Modern American If you mean the airport, LOL. LMAO.
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in the airport itself is pretty dire but Michael Symon's joint is passable
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Ooookay so this is a mess: I was gifted Gold on British Airways (OneWorld Emerald - MUCH higher than my lowly AA status). I have a bunch of upcoming flights booked on my American with my AAdvantage number, and I called in to change one of the itins to the BA ff number. Afterwards, that trip straight up disappeared from the AA phone app/website and is ALSO not on my BA account on britishairways.com. I still have the record locator, so not a big deal, but does this mean I can't use the AA app at all for my boarding passes? I don't care about getting AA miles for these flights but is there a way to keep the flight associated with my AA login so I can see the drat ticket and do a same day flight change or anything else like that? Can I leverage emerald for upgrades on American at all? Can I get on the upgrade list? Do I have to call in for that 24 hours in advance? (Should I be calling AA or BA?) If anyone's done this weird AA/BA dance before, I'd appreciate any thoughts or guidance.
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https://www.aa.com/i18n/travel-info/partner-airlines/oneworld-airline-partners.jsp Emerald doesn’t get complimentary upgrade privileges. https://www.aa.com/i18n/plan-travel/extras/same-day-travel.jsp Anyone can standby for an earlier flight, but only AAdvantage® status members can confirmed standby for a later flight the same day Confirmed change is only for AA status. sellouts fucked around with this message at 06:20 on May 9, 2024 |
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taco show posted:I still have the record locator, so not a big deal, but does this mean I can't use the AA app at all for my boarding passes? You can use the AA app without logging into your account and find your trip via the PNR. Boarding passes and whatnot should work normally. OneWhirled is pretty lovely when it comes to partner benefits outside of the top tier. I flew QR last year and credited to BA because I had an account and use Avios to book cheap awards on AA metal. $7k ticket netted me 16k Avios. Total horseshit.
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Man I dunno, even sapphire gets extra baggage, biz class lounges, biz class check in, and better boarding. It all rocked when I was staring out and barely scraping by getting Platinum. But I also accept that more money = better than and reciprocity in terms of earning miles or status on other airlines / flight numbers should not really be 1:1 to crediting the operating and ticketing airline. I also stopped expecting poo poo from mile redemptions when the 180k RTW J redemptions went away.
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Maybe right thread for this since many of you fly a lot and maybe fly business class. I'm flying Business Class on United into Changi Airport from the States so I'm going to be arriving at the airport a day later than my departure date. Will they allow me access to the Business Class Lounge at arrival? I'll be arriving in the evening and plan to book either a late evening/red-eye or early morning flight out and would rather save some money going into Singapore and then coming back to the airport. I read United does allow this for anyone who is arriving but I also hear conflicting things.
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Strong Sauce posted:Maybe right thread for this since many of you fly a lot and maybe fly business class. If I'm understanding correctly, you're seeking to air side transit Singapore instead of actually going through immigration and going into Singapore proper. If so, this is common and they have air side hotels in the airport for longer layovers. I'd recommend that over worrying about a lounge. That said, lounge access would be based on your outbound ticket from Singapore because it will be separate from your inbound on United.
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Had a longer layover than usual because I'm traveling with family. Showering in the Munich airport right now after a long flight and holy poo poo i feel almost human.
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It is amazing how a shower and brushing your teeth helps with jet lag.
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Beef Of Ages posted:It is amazing how a shower and brushing your teeth helps with jet lag. I'm flying AF business through CDG later this year and I'm kind of curious to try out their lounge sauna if it's available Ten years ago, just that idea would have sounded absurd to me
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EricBauman posted:I'm flying AF business through CDG later this year and I'm kind of curious to try out their lounge sauna if it's available The whole of Terminal 2 is a goddamn sauna. Adding one to the lounge is wholly redundant and something AF would do.
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Beef Of Ages posted:That said, lounge access would be based on your outbound ticket from Singapore because it will be separate from your inbound on United. it explicitly says you are allowed to enter lounges for departing, connecting and arrival flights. my question is whether or not the day change makes a difference.
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Strong Sauce posted:it explicitly says you are allowed to enter lounges for departing, connecting and arrival flights. my question is whether or not the day change makes a difference. The day change does not make a difference.
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My travel is insane and even I can’t fathom flying to Singapore and not wanting to leave an airport lounge. I can’t wait to even have a few hours free there again.
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Going to be in Burlington, MA next week for work. Used to go to Lowell a lot, but haven't been in 5+ years. Anywhere in particular I should hit up for food / drinks? The Mrs. is coming, along with some work people I actually like.
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I think there is virtually no reason for me to keep paying for my Platinum Delta AmEx, outside of not wanting to go update a bunch of accounts / auto-bill things. I have never used the companion certificate, it does gently caress all for lounge/etc, and I'm DM on spend alone from work travel. If you change any card, you get a new card number, right? I know AmEx shares your account age with oldest card, regardless of changes which is really nice. Thinking I'll just switch to the regular Platinum card.
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movax posted:I think there is virtually no reason for me to keep paying for my Platinum Delta AmEx, outside of not wanting to go update a bunch of accounts / auto-bill things. I have never used the companion certificate, it does gently caress all for lounge/etc, and I'm DM on spend alone from work travel. Do you want to stick with Delta cards? If so, you could probably downgrade to the gold or even the no annual fee Blue card, and I think your number would be the same? movax posted:I know AmEx shares your account age with oldest card, regardless of changes which is really nice. If you mean on your credit report, I thought they stopped doing this for new cards.
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I just changed my Delta Amex level and the number stayed the same but the expiration and security code changed.
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I also downgraded to the no fee blue card and the number didn't change
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Strong Sauce posted:it explicitly says you are allowed to enter lounges for departing, connecting and arrival flights. my question is whether or not the day change makes a difference. asur posted:The day change does not make a difference. follow up to this. if you're on united polaris business class you can stay in the lounge upon arrival. everybody else in the star alliance network can kick rocks apparently. i decided to just book my connecting flight for 2.5 hours later anyways so my plan is to fly in, shower at polaris and then fly out. as a back up though if i can't use the polaris lounge i have priority pass and they seem to have access to nice lounges at changi airport and those have showers as well.
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Strong Sauce posted:follow up to this. if you're on united polaris business class you can stay in the lounge upon arrival. everybody else in the star alliance network can kick rocks apparently. There is no Polaris lounge at SIN, but you should be able to use the KrisFlyer Gold or SilverKris Business lounges.
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Beef Of Ages posted:There is no Polaris lounge at SIN, but you should be able to use the KrisFlyer Gold or SilverKris Business lounges. Thanks, one of the few other times I've flown Business class was out of Singapore and that lounge they had specifically for Star Alliance and Polaris Business Class flyers had a bunch of United Airlines logos so I thought it was Polaris. Looking at pictures it's the SilverKris one. Going to try regardless since the rule on United says it applies to the ticket, not the lounge. But yeah if not I'll try the SATS Lounge or whichever one has an available shower.
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Strong Sauce posted:Thanks, one of the few other times I've flown Business class was out of Singapore and that lounge they had specifically for Star Alliance and Polaris Business Class flyers had a bunch of United Airlines logos so I thought it was Polaris. Looking at pictures it's the SilverKris one. The SilverKris lounge is the better one and there will be showers available. Krisflyer Gold lounge is the one for economy passengers and there's not even a separate toilet in the lounge.
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Head’s up to anyone connecting through LHR: they’re applying the new minimum connection rules automatically to any delays, not just having it apply to bookings. I had a 1h45 T5-T3 (BA > AA) connection, incoming flight arrived a half hour late, and as that left me with less than the now-in-effect connection time of ninety minutes, my ticket was automatically rebooked so I couldn’t even try to make it, like they wouldn’t let me into security. Edit: and here I am boarding five hours late Jean-Paul Shartre fucked around with this message at 13:57 on May 17, 2024 |
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Jean-Paul Shartre posted:Head’s up to anyone connecting through LHR: they’re applying the new minimum connection rules automatically to any delays, not just having it apply to bookings. I had a 1h45 T5-T3 (BA > AA) connection, incoming flight arrived a half hour late, and as that left me with less than the now-in-effect connection time of ninety minutes, my ticket was automatically rebooked so I couldn’t even try to make it, like they wouldn’t let me into security. The airport itself is enforcing it? Or BA/AA/Oneworld?
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That's a function of BA (or whichever carrier the ticket is plated on). And I could easily see such a deeply unfriendly to the customer move by BA, so the shoe fits. Did they rebook you to a BA flight so your new boarding pass wouldn't let you into T3 or was there another issue?
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Beef Of Ages posted:That's a function of BA (or whichever carrier the ticket is plated on). And I could easily see such a deeply unfriendly to the customer move by BA, so the shoe fits. Did they rebook you to a BA flight so your new boarding pass wouldn't let you into T3 or was there another issue? Exactly this. It was “Welcome to London, no, sorry, you’re now on the 2:30 out of T5.” Which left at 3:40 because of the daily runway swap, but that’s another gripe. Hello from Boston, six hours behind.
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KillHour posted:Assuming you mean the city and not the actual airport, Pittsburgh has lots of good food. You just stared that man directly in the face and lied to him without blinking.
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MrLogan posted:You just stared that man directly in the face and lied to him without blinking. I feel bad for you because you either have terrible taste or terrible luck.
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I managed to stay away further from the airport area in Cranberry and found some decent food and one place with decent beer. Nothing but chain restaurants by the hotels closest to PIT.
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Jean-Paul Shartre posted:Head’s up to anyone connecting through LHR: they’re applying the new minimum connection rules automatically to any delays, not just having it apply to bookings. I had a 1h45 T5-T3 (BA > AA) connection, incoming flight arrived a half hour late, and as that left me with less than the now-in-effect connection time of ninety minutes, my ticket was automatically rebooked so I couldn’t even try to make it, like they wouldn’t let me into security. I would be livid. Hopefully you get 600 Eur compensation if it qualifies for that BS. In local Heathrow parlance they call it "conformance"
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Anything I'm Mount Laurel NJ? Do they have, a thing? I'll be there a week for work. Flying into Philly but don't think I have time to do anything there.
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