What a trip to round out the year, here to St. Louis, MO on Frontier! I completed my minimum program status for Frontier, and rounded out three airline miles program achievements for 2009 (Hotel program status was met earlier in the 4th quarter for those of you tracking my revenue and booking numbers). Concluding a good business meeting with Dave Robb here in St. Louis, we drove to the airport in rain. Dave got on his somewhat delayed flight to Atlanta and should be arriving about now at 10:25pm Atlanta time. I, on the otherhand, am still in lovely St. Louis, waiting for that LAST business flight of the year.
The 'one hour delayed due to snow in Denver" Frontier flight landed, and we were told "there's a mechanical issue and we'll keep you posted".....That was about 7:30pm Central. It's now 9:30pm Central as I watch the rain POUR outside at 30 degrees F, just about freezing.....Frontier is deadheading a plane here with parts from Denver. It is scheduled to land at 10:20pm Central with the "parts" for the other plane, and the flight crew will take the "good plane" and whisk us back to Denver yet tonight - in theory. Tomorrow and Saturday are "green days" and apparently all flights are booked with a big thank you to our troops as the various airlines are flying military folks all over the country (I assume my tax dollars are providing this free flight situation in some fashion -not really the airlines, right? How can they afford that? Lower gas prices or something?)
Of course, after sitting on hold with my work travel agency for well over 55 minutes, I booked one flight for a high dollar at noon tomorrow if everything doesn't work out tonight...... Maybe I can take a flight to somewhere WARM if I can't get to Denver.....I was telling Dave over dinner last night about the blog and how I needed something bloggable from my trip. Wish Dave well and provide him happy thoughts next Tuesday as he's having his shoulder "done" under the scope. Here's to a speedy recovery for Dave and a hope that I will be in Denver sometime before sunrise!
3 comments:
You're always welcome to come to the HC!
Do you guys still use Travel Inc.? Gosh I despised that company!
I really don't miss doing what you do! LOL
GLY
Unfortunately we don't use Travelinc anymore - I loved them, understand you had "issues"; we are now with another company based in San Antonio, TX where our parent company is based. This new company "hires out" after hours support and it's simply "amazing and NOT fabulous in any sense of the word" - they are not used to our division type of daily/weekly travel.....ok - better stop, or I'll have coal in my stocking!
Since you did the status update on 'last trip of the year' I will do my tally of 'unexpected Q4 travel for Sales'....drum roll please! 1 - yes you read it right - only 1 unplanned trip in December and it wasn't even for Sales! Word must have been out that I was not in the 'mood' to travel the globe for anyting not certain to close in 2008. Happy days!!!
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