Off to Vancouver

How far will I go to avoid Air Canada's crappy A320 and service? LOL.

I'm off to Montreal this afternoon for meetings and a quick family visit, then to New Orleans for SFO777Jr's significant round number birthday.

Mrs. SFO777 is flying solo to NOLA and I'll meet her there Saturday afternoon. Getting to Montreal from the west coast by lunch time is impossible without a redeye the night before. Resigned to a redeye, my options narrowed since JetBlue, DL and AA all wanted an arm and a leg for lie flats to New York. Then I remembered Cathay Pacific's YVR-JFK 77W and the best North American transcon flight. Mileage seats were indeed available on my date and I used some orphaned AsiaMiles to seal the deal.

I used Amex Pay with Points and the 50% rebate for my LAX-SEA-YVR First Class flights at a net cost of less then 10,000 Amex miles. And with these flights, I requalified for Flying Blue Silver into 2018. Not a lot of traffic this morning and I made it to LAX in just over an hour.

Since we're returning on Sunday on AA, I parked in the T4 garage.

And a couple minutes later was at T5.

With 30 minutes to spare, I headed to the Sky Club which was really quite nice.

And a food spread that puts the Admirals Clubs and United Clubs to shame.

At T-45, I headed to the gate where, despite the On Time note, the delayed LAX-JFK 767 was still occupying our gate.

Delta 1232

B717

1:00p-3:50p (sked)

1:20p-3:45p (actual)

January 11, 2017

Lunch

Pleasant SLC-based crew today and the usual DL pre-departure beverages.

For lunch today, a choice of BBQ chicken sliders or chicken quinoa, both with tomato bisque soup. Think I should have gone with the sliders as this salad was pretty tasteless.

As always, Dancing Deer is the best part of any DL meal.

Despite the late departure, we arrived pretty much on time at SEA.

I headed for the A1 Sky Club. Wow, for a domestic lounge, this one is very nice. And again much better food offerings than AA or UA clubs.

Then there was this guy. Oy, back and forth and back and forth yapping on the phone. Jeez, just sit in one place so we know where to go to escape you.