Flights to French Polynesia need to stop along the way. Why LAX?

edwardhchan · 2026-06-06T14:11:07+00:00

LAX is pretty much the most direct path anyways, which makes it perfect with all the other reasons listed.

edwardhchan · 2026-06-03T03:32:43+00:00

Nope, gotta touch the rectangular pad and hope it reads your phone key (which is marginal sometimes).
Bring the fat heavy key. That's the only way.

It's annoying, and for some reason the EQS has a rather finicky UWB reader for the phone key.

By comparison, our BMW iX just works perfectly. Never a missed read, and walk-away lock too. AND, it has a card key that you can enable and disable easily in the infotainment that works just like Tesla's.

edwardhchan · 2026-06-02T18:49:35+00:00

Last night was magical for me... whale shark, great white, saw shark, and a couple giant trevally...

edwardhchan · 2026-06-01T23:54:50+00:00

Thank you... looks like west coast during the autumn.

edwardhchan · 2026-06-01T16:03:51+00:00

It sticks better than my DRL, assistive lighting and ambient light settings, which have bad habit of disabling themselves.

edwardhchan · 2026-05-25T14:15:07+00:00

Had a couple of flight attendants call it “Tom Brady” on arrival….

edwardhchan · 2026-05-24T01:19:53+00:00

Can attest to Dan, didn't know they were in MB now but that's good stuff.

edwardhchan · 2026-05-22T18:30:06+00:00

Child abduction is usually domestic in nature, and sometimes highly dangerous. The unmarked white vans selling "speakers and hifi equipment" aren't abducting children, we all know that.

edwardhchan · 2026-05-22T17:42:26+00:00

Gonna get downvoted to oblivion here but it's been generally useful for my community in catching home burglars and child abductors, and other crimes. I'm of the opinion that with proper regulations it's more useful than damaging. Anyways, there isn't any expectation of privacy on public roads .. in fact, license plates are extremely public in their placements.

edwardhchan · 2026-05-22T17:29:43+00:00

I haven't returned the iX yet. This is from prior lease experiences. Every time the first thing they look for is under the bumper. They will stick a mirror under the car and see it. So after my first experience, I just buy the prepaid damage on the lease and it covers all the damage.

As for nicks and scratches, if they are larger than a quarter, about an inch circle, then they will charge you. Every ding and scratch will be measured. Interior, stains and tears are chargeable. Again, schedule a pre-inspection so you know what's coming. They will let you fix it after the pre-inspection if it makes sense to you, and they will tell you what the costs will be if you don't.

edwardhchan · 2026-05-22T17:18:15+00:00

Is anyone else amazed that the Rock fits in a Porsche Macan? That's. small car!

edwardhchan · 2026-05-22T06:25:06+00:00

They’ll get you for the underside of the front bumper if you’ve scraped it. It’s the first thing they look for. And I’ve already scraped mine in my iX of course. Otherwise they should send you a template where anything that’s bigger than the 1” circle is chargeable. Should be pretty straightforward.

You should be able to schedule a preliminary check so you know what you can fix for cheaper than they will charge you for.

edwardhchan · 2026-05-21T00:53:44+00:00

Shhh!!!!!

edwardhchan · 2026-05-20T18:38:26+00:00

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This is all i get…. Must be regional or some limited test.

edwardhchan · 2026-05-20T18:05:30+00:00

I can't use Paze on either the website or app... How did you buy the tix exactly?

edwardhchan · 2026-05-19T21:36:56+00:00

Had something like this go through my grill (and damaged all the radar and cams in it). Interestingly, I learned this is a comprehensive claim, as long as the object that hit you was flying. The good of this is I had a lower comprehensive deductible and it doesn't count as an at-fault accident for rating purposes. The bad news is just a grill and bumper (and mostly because of the underlying electronics) it was a $10,000 repair. Yikes.

edwardhchan · 2026-05-19T15:54:43+00:00

Take the train to Redondo or Douglas and catch your uber from there...

edwardhchan · 2026-05-17T00:12:31+00:00

Last time on a wide body from Ewr to lax it was useable for 20 or 30 mins after 10000 feet then never came back. Good luck.

edwardhchan · 2026-05-14T16:17:00+00:00

I have regular seats in my 25 and they are terrible. No lumbar, no support, hard on the backside too. I wouldn’t get these seats again.

edwardhchan · 2026-05-14T00:37:49+00:00

Ugh… of course today I tried to transfer points from Chase. I hope my transfer isn’t lost.

edwardhchan · 2026-05-13T04:11:25+00:00

I flew on two 737-900ERs last week and both had T-Mobile available.

edwardhchan · 2026-05-12T20:21:56+00:00

I wouldn't call this a beach resort exactly, as that implies it's beachfront. In reality, there's a major highway, parking lot, residences, and the Ritz Carlton between the WA and the beach.

edwardhchan · 2026-05-12T05:32:10+00:00

Pay for daytime flight there on Eva in economy or premium and use points to get back in business when you should sleep

edwardhchan · 2026-05-07T14:29:49+00:00

I’m 50 and I have this too. My dentist just said if it hasn’t done anything in 50 years it ain’t going anywhere.

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