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Sea Orchestra

More new commercials from my favorite airline!

United Services – San Francisco, CA

Members of Flyertalk were given the opportunity to tour United Services’ San Francisco Maintenance Base last Friday.  It was an outstanding event, showing the inner workings of what it takes to support the 460 airplanes in United’s fleet.  One of the cool things, besides walking beneath a 777 as shown above, was to meet the [...]

Palo Alto, CA

  With CNBC TV’s Silicon Valley Bureau Editor Jim Goldman outside the Palo Alto Apple Store on Thursday.
Here’s a rather scary shot, and another.

Topic B Weekend on Fox News Channel

Here’s a YouTube version of my interview on Topic B Weekend with Trace Gallagher on Fox News Channel.

So far, I’ve flown roughly 66,500 miles since the beginning of January (paid + award/voucher). Normally I fly anywhere between 100,000 to 110,000 in a year. Business travelers scoff at this, but it’s all personal (sans [...]

Latest YouTube video for Beijing

Here’s the YouTube version of my latest video from the Beijing Inaugural flights. Enjoy!

More Coverage

The Washington Post has run an update in Saturday’s edition on the front page of the Business section. Registration required.
This morning at 10:30am I was interviewed by local news radio station KCBS. Hopefully I can get permission to post a sound clip on that.
Tomorrow, I will be on Topic B Weekend with Trace [...]

Wow, it’s THAT interesting?

I’ve never gotten 20+ emails and texts when I’ve turned my cellphone on after a flight. Well, at least not from anything but the work server monitoring system. As UA898 taxiied down the Dulles runway, I chuckled as I read through a couple. There was one other thing on [...]

Washington Post

Inaugural Flights Draw Airline ‘Geeks’
After 3 hours in Beijing, it’s time to fly again…
I’ll have to read this on the plane.
(edit… This story appeared on the front page of the Washington Post print edition)

IAD-PEK… here we go!

Here we go, I’m onboard UA 897, ready to take off. So far, I’ve seen many folks I saw on my Kuwait flight (that were at or on one of the flights). One of the Flight Attendants in my cabin recognizes me from the flight from Kuwait. Here are some preliminary shots [...]

Destination: China

The adventure continues, as I join United Airlines on their Inaugural “Capital to Capital” services from Washington D.C.-Dulles (IAD) to Beijing, China (PEK). I will also be flying their Inaugural flight back. When I return, I’ll post another YouTube video…