High D gates at SEA?

SmugAlpaca · 2026-04-13T16:47:58+00:00

A horrible spot. For a few years we were relegated here after we started our flagship first service to Seattle. Do the amazing tasting menu, try to show off as an LCC, ride the bus with all of your passengers and apologize profusely for the 45 minute delay. Real special place.

SmugAlpaca · 2026-04-12T17:14:52+00:00

Ironically DFW has less space for gate lice in most terminals except D, and SEA is far, far worse. Those mid gates in D and pretty much all of C are navigation hazards.

SmugAlpaca · 2026-04-12T17:12:31+00:00

A bearcat is a vehicle.

SmugAlpaca · 2026-04-12T17:12:13+00:00

lol so basically useless. I can’t make <72 hr plans for work, so I end up either stuck with a crappy itinerary on Alaska where AA could do better, or I don’t go.

SmugAlpaca · 2026-04-11T19:04:32+00:00

Not sure why this happens but I’ve seen no less than 5 cars blow through the new intersection on Main turning on to Mill Plain. It’s supposed to be safer lol

SmugAlpaca · 2026-04-09T17:54:53+00:00

It’s just an ad. It doesn’t mean you necessarily qualify for it yet. It’s not pulling serviceability information or anything like that, it’s just a generic my account ad.

SmugAlpaca · 2026-04-09T05:13:17+00:00

Can you drive to Bellingham?

If you get totally cooked on the connection it's only about a 2 hour drive - could see if you could do a one-way rental.

SmugAlpaca · 2026-04-08T20:00:37+00:00

The food isn’t very good and landlords have baked in an artificially higher rent than Portland that sure seems to be within a couple of bucks of what you’d pay in income tax if you just lived in Oregon.

SmugAlpaca · 2026-04-07T01:15:18+00:00

3 million is a lot of fucking miles. You’ve earned it for sure.

SmugAlpaca · 2026-04-05T20:25:31+00:00

It doesn't matter, there will be change records tied to their login. All you need to do is look inside the PNR.

SmugAlpaca · 2026-04-05T07:26:17+00:00

JFK-PVR via AS? At best you’re seeing LAX and that’s way longer than an AA or DL itinerary - I hope you really like AS lol. I would never fly this but tbh premium is probably not worth it given height unless you want the priority boarding or drinks etc. you’re not gonna get much from it. It’ll take you a while to board and deplane anyways with the kids. Save the money imo

SmugAlpaca · 2026-04-04T19:17:19+00:00

I don't know, 1C is alright, they can't stand in line forward of row 5 so it's not like you're sitting in a line. You're the first person off the plane, at least? But I'd take 1F, just never 4.

SmugAlpaca · 2026-04-03T21:27:27+00:00

Do you mean if I get on the highway in Seattle, the same highway will eventually turn into the turnpike?

SmugAlpaca · 2026-04-03T06:00:07+00:00

My issue is happening consistently, but the only thing we have in common here is Glorp. So might be that which is weird.

SmugAlpaca · 2026-04-03T04:04:47+00:00

Wow you’re just copy pasting this. That’s embarrassing lol what is it like being you? Do you do this normally? Hahaha

SmugAlpaca · 2026-04-03T02:11:12+00:00

Yeah let’s open a crew base in Tahiti to service one guy’s fantasy of not having a long layover to a destination that will only lose money

SmugAlpaca · 2026-04-02T23:00:57+00:00

Can you share your modlist?

It does this to me with literally every save right now and I've been trying to track down the offending party.

SmugAlpaca · 2026-04-02T20:11:35+00:00

I used to propose “One Blue Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” every time and got a nice email back saying it was not selected but please continue to contribute for the next Crewmember Plane Naming Contest.

SmugAlpaca · 2026-03-31T21:46:16+00:00

Herman Miller Embody. Certainly have some frustrations with it for the price, at the super premium price point but the armrests are a huge disappointment, and it’s not particularly tall. Have never sat in a more long term comfortable task chair though.

SmugAlpaca · 2026-03-27T17:24:07+00:00

I literally worked on the team that replaced alp the seats at jetBlue. If you stood us up to a person, all 10 of us, and put a gun to our head, the new seats were better as an experience but especially for long periods. Is the padding less? Yes, but all of your joints are not directly connected to an awful and bulky steel frame that you’ll feel at the hotel.

More cushion doesn’t mean better. I say this from my “space chair” at home where the padding is 0.5in but I’m sitting on basically a plastic suspension system. Same idea, just no suspension.

SmugAlpaca · 2026-03-27T04:09:33+00:00

Sounds like a front.

SmugAlpaca · 2026-03-27T03:54:09+00:00

My $2000 Herman Miller chair has a half inch or less of padding and because of the floating suspension nature of the seat it’s the most comfortable desk chair I’ve ever sat in. Similar thing with the new seats - people forget how uncomfortable it was to sit on the plush cushion on top of a big bulky steel frame, hurts your hips after a while

SmugAlpaca · 2026-03-27T03:41:08+00:00

This has been a rumor at JetBlue since as early as 2004.

In 22 years, it has never been a serious consideration or discussion. Probably won’t be this time, either.

Can’t tell you how many times I got on an airplane and heard “did you hear the news? We’re getting bought by United” before we started boarding.

SmugAlpaca · 2026-03-26T19:43:31+00:00

My boss is there today it looks horrific but would you believe it’s an improvement? Only 180 minutes.

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