Subj : Re: Change of pace
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Digital Man
Date : Fri Dec 06 2024 10:25 am

  Re: Re: Change of pace
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Digital Man on Fri Dec 06 2024 06:50 am

 > -=> Digital Man wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
 >
 >  DM> Hey, your schedule sounds like mine! Southwest A-lister? You get the
 >  DM> free booze-drinks (which my wife enjoys when she flies with me). --
 >
 >  I've been working from home since my company sent everyone home during
 >  the lockdown in 2020. Our lease expired in 2020 and I moved all of our
 >  stuff to a new office. We never occupied that office and closed it down
 >  in 2022. Traveling and being in an office are new to me!

I definitely paused travelling (for work) for a couple years there, but as a result of the pandemic I went from travelling for work 5 days a week to only 2 days (most weeks). I mostly just go back and forth from ONT to OAK.

 >  Does Southwest still do those coupon books? I used to fly from OAK to
 >  SAN every week for most of 2002. I ended up with a stack of those books
 >  and handed out all of my coupons to the other passengers on my last
 >  flight home.

They stopped sending the physical drink tickets a year or more ago and now it's just a QR code on your boarding pass (phone app) that expire after your flight. So you can't really collect unused ones any more or give them out. I used to do the same when I heard (nice/cool) people trying to pay for drinks near me on flights. Can't do that anymore. :-(
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