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To: Vision
I wonder if the purpose of the flight was to get the dog up there or did the aid take him along?

Does it matter. The aide could have flown coach, like the little people do. The only time2 I've flown first class has been when the flight was overbooked and they gave me a free upgrade. Even though I've been flying on business, mostly as a military contractor and a few times as military, off and on for 35 years, I can count the number of times that has happened on one hand.

31 posted on 07/17/2010 7:41:35 AM PDT by El Gato ("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
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To: El Gato

In 1968 I was working for a small company in Garland, TX. We had an urgent contract deadline to meet. I had subcontractors in both northern and soothern California and also in Connecticut. I planned a trip to the west coast and then to Connecticut. I had never flown nonstop coast to coast, so I thought it would be an excellent idea to save time and take a redeye from LA to New York overnight. I found myself on a fully loaded DC-8, surrounded by hippies. My seatmate had a bandage around his head, probably covering injuries inflicted in some street riot. I was at the Connecticut subcontractor next day, looking forward to a real night’s rest, when I got a phone call from my office instructing me to hot-foot it back to San Francisco ASAP. They had arranged for me to ride first class, gov’s funded of course. So the guy who had never flown coast-to-coast nonstop, got to do it two nights in a row.


44 posted on 07/17/2010 7:53:55 AM PDT by 19th LA Inf
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