Wednesday, January 09, 2013

From Boston to Houston to Dallas... The end of an 16 hours travel day

I ended up #8 on the upgrade list with First class checked in full. Due to the inbound aircraft (that I was on) being 15 minutes late, we had a late departure from Boston of 35 minutes.

The reason we arrived late into Boston was that there was sever weather activity in southeast US so we had to fly north and then east to avoid it causing a late arrival into Boston and we had to wait for them to recalculate to get more fuel as well due to the overflying.

Seeing as my upgrade on the BOS-IAH very unlikely, I went to the United Club to use the Internet/wifi and relax before flying again. I also stopped by Panda Express to grab some food to eat on board.

The new posted departure time was initially 1:13pm but that became 1:36pm because we had to get more fuel since the flight time would be increased to about 5 hours. The weather in Boston was clear.

The service was good even in coach as there were 2 main beverage services, 2 water services, and a coffee service. I even managed to redeem a drink chit from 2010 as well. The subsidiary mainline Continental flights accepted old Continental Currency coupons as well last fall.

The flight was bumpy and the seatbelt sign came on several times for short time periods. The last 40 minutes were very rough. We had to slow down as we got closer to Houston as there was a lot of delays for arriving planes.

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