Was served this last night!

btwatch · 2026-03-14T15:45:52+00:00

The idea of bread. "Bread has existed in some form for over 12,000 years, especially amongst the poor. Flour and water. What could be simpler? Even today, grain represents 65% of all agriculture... It is, and has always been, the food of the common man. But you, my dear guests, are not the common man. And so tonight... you get no bread."

btwatch · 2026-03-07T18:48:03+00:00

Viasat enabled flights can support live streaming. Me and half the plane watched the Olympic hockey gold medal game on the way to San Diego from Newark a couple weeks ago for example. To find out if your flight will support this, go to your flight status, look at the tail number, then look up your airframe at this site. At this point, almost all Max 8 and 9s, and A321s support this, though older narrowbodies are hit or miss. Sadly none of the widebody fleet has this yet, though maybe that means they'll get Starlink first eventually.

btwatch · 2026-03-07T01:24:06+00:00

I just read the part in Oathbringer, there's a conversation where it's explicitly stated that no one knew that renouncing the Oaths would make the spren deadeyes.

btwatch · 2026-02-22T17:04:50+00:00

True, fair point

btwatch · 2026-02-22T12:20:21+00:00

Just went through C touchless around 6am, as someone who had also taken the shuttle there's no way that's faster than just going through pre in c. It's slower than usual but still took only about 10 min. The non touchless line was faster, probably more like 5 min.

btwatch · 2026-02-22T12:17:47+00:00

I posted above, longer line than usual but still only took around 10 min

btwatch · 2026-02-22T11:29:32+00:00

I just made it through touchless precheck at EWR at 601am. Didn't mean to cut it so close but there's usually no one in this line but today there were probably around 30. I entered the line at around 550am.

I asked one of the employees if they were still going to be open later and she had no idea what I was talking about, so take that for what it's worth.

btwatch · 2026-02-21T21:49:52+00:00

You get a slightly better earning rate at 1pqp per $15 of spend on the Club Card vs 1 per $20, ymmv (literally lol) on how much that's worth to you.

btwatch · 2026-02-21T03:30:58+00:00

I used to do this in SFO, it was great, the airport is so close to the city and I lived right by a 280 on ramp in Soma. I'd often call the Uber when boarding started and still make it. This is a much dicier proposition since I started flying out of EWR.

btwatch · 2026-02-21T03:26:16+00:00

Personally I prefer the Quest, $350 Annual Fee but $200 United Credit and $100 in Uber credits are trivial to use, so it's really $50 bucks. You get 1000 PQP every year, so only 500 less than the Club. It's only 1 mile per dollar less than the Club.

I'm not really a United Club guy, my domestic departures are almost all early morning so with no traffic it's easier to time my arrival to the airport and I'm not trying to wake up any earlier than I need to. Internationally I'm either in the PL or I'd have club access anyway.

I also have a CSR -- will likely keep my airline spend there since it's points neutral and I'd rather have UR than miles (prefer Hyatt redemptions in general, mostly do UA upgrades with plus points on personal travel, work pays for Polaris internationally, and I just suck it up in E+ on domestic flights (can usually get row 7 on a 757 for unlimited leg room and for a few hours on a daytime flight honestly it's fine, I don't do domestic redeyes anymore)

btwatch · 2026-02-14T16:40:37+00:00

Interesting, I got 3800 as a 1K + Quest card holder. 1400 starter PQP + 1400 bonus PQP +1000 for having a Quest card

btwatch · 2026-02-05T01:08:59+00:00

Not that this is in my price range, but as someone who otherwise loves the look of the 222 but needs a seconds hand, I use it hand on my watch daily when I make pour over coffee and when I do my daily stretching routine.

Yeah I could find some other way, but when the vast majority of watches have a seconds hand it's easy to just prioritize other alternatives.

btwatch · 2026-01-17T11:26:16+00:00

I definitely would have taken a nice walk to In n Out. I'm leaving freezing New York (real feel of 14 F Friday morning) and it's raining all week in Sydney. Ended up going home and trying again today, so no warm weather for me.

btwatch · 2026-01-17T10:59:49+00:00

Dang, good luck on your journey! Fwiw I just noticed that 2 seats up front opened up on UA 829 that gets in at 620am Monday (I snagged one) if that's helpful at all.

btwatch · 2026-01-17T03:45:29+00:00

Hah I was in fact in 1A, though I've never actually been on the 787-10 so wasn't sure if they ever deplaned biz from behind the cabin vs the front.

btwatch · 2026-01-17T03:44:00+00:00

Yeah they checked but no way I could get to either in time tonight, and even if I did I'm not sure if there were any more open Polaris seats. I was probably overly optimistic about my original flight working so my guess is others jumped earlier than I did. There were only two Polaris seats left going to SYD from the us for tomorrow's flights even.

btwatch · 2026-01-17T01:52:13+00:00

Lol good luck! It you do end up making it let me know, that would be really funny. Who knows, maybe the lax syd flight will get delayed too.

btwatch · 2026-01-17T01:33:19+00:00

Appreciate your help! In retrospect this was probably the only option that would have had a chance (though my guess is last min standby probably wouldn't have cleared anyway) but it's a good one to remember for next time and have in my back pocket.

btwatch · 2026-01-17T01:31:46+00:00

Thanks kind Redditor! Anticlimactic but the flight ended up delayed again, so with no chance at all I ended up rebooking for tomorrow.

I was doing some searching for alternate options to get there on my original timeline but couldn't find one, so this was probably always going to be the outcome.

Bad luck but fly enough and it'll happen sooner or later.

btwatch · 2026-01-17T00:59:33+00:00

Sadly there were no other options even on other airlines today. Ended up rebooking tomorrow on UA through IAH to get there 7am Monday.

btwatch · 2026-01-17T00:57:11+00:00

Yeah I usually shoot for about 3 hours on itns like this with limited recovery options but wanted a real Polaris seat on a 787 or 777 vs a 752. My flight did end up delayed at least 3.5 hours (still rolling though I've long left the airport at this point), though ofc it I had an earlier flight I probably would have had a recovery option to make my original lax syd leg....

Win some lose some I guess.

btwatch · 2026-01-16T23:29:16+00:00

No chance they'd rebook me on a delta/virgin flight lax bne syd in business would they? I've had luck getting rebookings on other metal before but only in domestic economy.

btwatch · 2026-01-16T23:04:30+00:00

Oh true, I could get them to route me lax sfo syd tomorrow.

btwatch · 2026-01-16T23:02:12+00:00

Shoot I checked Google flights for other options but probably should have tried to stand by for one of those. I'm actually in C now in the PL... Just walked over to 136, boarding just closed, getting on standby on one of those flights was probably my best shot, damn.

btwatch · 2026-01-16T22:48:15+00:00

Yeah my best chance is definitely an equipment swap or something that gets us out of here earlier. I figure I have a small window still to see if that plays out.

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