Entries tagged with "united airlines"

In which I call shenanigans on United Airlines

posted by srah on April 19, 2008 12:52 PM

Tags: airlines, california, food, san francisco, travel, united airlines

Tuesday, March 25 - Wednesday, March 26 When I woke up on Tuesday morning, I checked my flight status and discovered that my flight from San Francisco to Chicago was delayed something ridiculous like 4.5 hours. So I called United and asked them to change this in some way, even if it involved putting me on a different airline. "Okie doke," the operator replied (although perhaps not in those words), and she booked me on a US Airways flight leaving slightly earlier that would take me through Charlotte instead. However, she told me, I would have to stop by the...

'I've taken this boat many places. Miami. Tokyo. Denver.'

posted by srah on April 3, 2008 5:30 PM

Tags: airlines, california, driving, san francisco, srahtown, travel, united airlines

I had a whole lot of stuff to write about my wonderful trip to San Francisco (a bajillion years ago) and the not-so-wonderful travel in order to get there, but there's just too much to say and not enough time to write it all. I will try to do it bit by bit rather than writing it all in one go, and return to the land of the blogging. Jday, you win! Thursday, March 20 I set off for the airport several hours early, with the idea that as long as I was going for a long drive to the...

Let us all take our pennyfarthing bicycles to the aero-port!

posted by srah on June 4, 2007 12:39 PM

Tags: airlines, airport, cincinnati, dayton, delta airlines, propeller planes, travel, united airlines, us airways

I am equidistant from the Cincinnati and Dayton airports, but I usually prefer flying out of Dayton. Dayton Airport: ProsCincinnati Airport: Prosflights are always cheaper than Cincinnatiyou can walk from the parking lot to the airport rather than waiting for a shuttleit's too small to get lost inyou can get some steps in walking from one end of the airport to anothershorter security/airline waits (usually)smaller and cuterfree wireless internetcheaper parkingmore frequent flightsmore airlinesmore to do and see in the airportmore to do and see on the way to the airportbigger and fancier (note: this is only true of the Delta...