Aaron Parecki

#travel

I took the High-Speed Brightline Train from Miami to Orlando with only two hours notice

It was 11am at the Fort Lauderdale airport, an hour after my non-stop flight to Portland was supposed to have boarded. As I had been watching our estimated departure get pushed back in 15 minute increments, I finally received the dreaded news over the loudspeaker - the flight was cancelled entirely. As hordes of people started lining up to rebook their flights with the gate agent, I found a quiet spot in the corner and opened up my laptop to look at my options.
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Fri, Dec 1, 2023 7:38pm -08:00 #travel #train
welp, managed to go a whole year without a major airline snafu until my last work trip of the year. Flight from Miami to Portland was cancelled, and all the other options from Miami were bad. So I'm taking the Brightline train to Orlando and getting on a direct flight to Portland tonight!

Alaska Flight 337 FLL to PDX in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA

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Fri, Dec 1, 2023 11:48am -05:00 #travel
As predicted, it's only 7pm but i feel like I've been up for 24 hours, probably because I have. PRG-LHR-LAX-PDX-ZZZ😴

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Sat, Nov 11, 2023 7:08pm -08:00 #travel
electronic devices are the new smoking

British Airways Flight 288 PHX to LHR in Phoenix, Arizona, USA • 72°F

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Sat, Nov 4, 2023 8:37pm -07:00 #travel
so much Las Vegas airport traffic this afternoon 😅 everyone wants to get out of here

Alaska Flight 683 LAS to PDX in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

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Fri, Jun 2, 2023 3:08pm -07:00 #travel
How do not one, but two people, get a first class upgrade on a flight sitting in seat 1C/1B and not know they got upgraded and walk all the way to the back of the plane looking for their seat and then have to ask a flight attendant where seat 1C is??

Portland, Oregon, USA • 49°F

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Sat, Apr 15, 2023 10:26am -07:00 #travel
This trip is doing a good job of reminding me why I don't check bags. 40 minutes waiting for bags at PDX, and the Lyft pickup went from 1 minute away to 15 minutes away 😭

Portland, Oregon, USA • 44°F

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Fri, Mar 31, 2023 9:16pm -07:00 #bags #travel
I've always thought I present pretty clearly as cisgender male, but this flight attendant just told me "no ma'am" when I asked if they had any sparkling wine on board 🤷‍♂️

American Airlines Flight 176 HND to DFW in JPN

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Fri, Mar 31, 2023 10:43am +00:00 #travel
Premiere Pro ad in the back of this taxi 😅

JPN

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Fri, Mar 31, 2023 2:29pm +09:00 #travel #japan
wow, they're really going for the retro 70s vibe with the new @AlaskaAir Horizon planes!

Alaska Flight 1110 PDX to SFO in Portland, Oregon, USA • 47°F

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Sun, Mar 19, 2023 8:48am -07:00 #plane #travel
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Wed, Feb 15, 2023 11:02am -08:00 #travel #tips
Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Jan 18
I just made a list of all my expected flights in 2023 and I am just *barely* going to hit @AlaskaAir MVP Gold status (40K) by the very end of the year.

How did I fly so much in 2019?? I hit Gold 75K status by April in 2019! 🤯

I am reviewing all my 2019 flights to try to remember why I told myself I didn't want to go back to that much travel anymore.

PDX-SJC-PDX
PDX-SFO-PDX
PDX-SEA-MSY-SLC-PDX
PDX-EWR-SEA-PDX
PDX-SEA-ORD-PDX
PDX-SFO-AUS-PDX
PDX-SFO-PDX
PDX-SEA-BOS-NRT-LAX-PDX
PDX-LAX-LHR-PRG-LHR-PHX-SFO-PDX
PDX-EWR-LHR-CDG-BCN-FRA-HAJ-LHR-SFO-PDX
PDX-DCA-IAD-ORD-SFO-PDX
PDX-SNA-PDX
PDX-SFO-SJC-PDX
PDX-FRA-FRA-DUS-AMS-DUS-FRA-PDX
PDX-ORD-YYZ-ORD-PDX
PDX-SFO-PDX
PDX-SFO-LHR-KEF-PDX
PDX-ORD-PDX
PDX-OMA-PDX
PDX-SNA-PDX
PDX-SAN-MCI-DEN-PDX
PDX-EWR-LGA-BOS-YUL-EWR-PDX
PDX-SEA-BOS-PDX
PDX-SLC-PDX
PDX-AUS-SEA-PDX
PDX-ONT-PDX
PDX-SNA-PDX
PDX-OAK-PDX
PDX-DEN-TUL-DEN-PDX
PDX-LAX-SYD-BNE-MEL-LAX-PDX
PDX-ORD-FRA-AMS-FRA-ORD-PDX
PDX-DCA-PDX
PDX-SFO-LHR-ZRH-IAD-PDX
PDX-SEA-OKC-IAH-MEM-ORD-CPH-SFO-PDX
PDX-LAX-SIN-SEA-PDX

214,000 miles

Portland, Oregon, USA • 42°F

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Wed, Jan 18, 2023 4:20pm -08:00 #travel
I just made a list of all my expected flights in 2023 and I am just *barely* going to hit @AlaskaAir MVP Gold status (40K) by the very end of the year.

How did I fly so much in 2019?? I hit Gold 75K status by April in 2019! 🤯

Portland, Oregon, USA • 42°F

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Wed, Jan 18, 2023 4:07pm -08:00 #travel
Takeaways From The Alaska Airlines Flyer Forum 2022 (www.travelcodex.com)

Wed, Jan 18, 2023 3:51pm -08:00 #travel #alaskaair
eCFR :: 14 CFR 250.5 -- Amount of denied boarding compensation for passengers denied boarding involuntarily. (www.ecfr.gov)

Tue, Dec 27, 2022 9:50pm -08:00 #travel
Dr. Julie Gurner https://twitter.com/drgurner • Dec 19
Realize that traveling for work is usually a massive time waste & cut it by 80% for next year. The best way to recover, is not to continually put yourself in the same cycle.

At the end of 2019, after 40 cities and 97 days on planes, I told myself I was going to significantly cut my travel down for 2020. Turns out that plan kind of made itself 😂😬

Portland, Oregon, USA • 41°F

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Mon, Dec 19, 2022 3:05pm -08:00 #travel
Alaska Airlines https://twitter.com/AlaskaAir • Nov 4
Ugh, I am sorry for the mess! It sounds like this would be sorted out best by our experts on our reservations team. You can reach them at 800-252-7522 or by texting 82008.
-Annie

Thanks, but I think there's literally nothing anyone can do. I can't even get my boarding pass from SEA-LHR until the American gate agents arrive at the gate. At least the British Airways lounge was able to find my ticket by looking up my seat number.

Seattle, Washington, USA • 41°F

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Thu, Nov 3, 2022 7:19pm -07:00 #travel
I need to figure out what shenanigans @TripActions pulled with my itinerary that caused the security check to reject my ID, and the @AlaskaAir lounge agent to have an extremely confused look on her face after scanning my boarding pass.

Portland, Oregon, USA • 45°F

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Thu, Nov 3, 2022 2:29pm -07:00 #travel
Weekend plans:

🚊 PDX➡EUG
🚲 EUG➡#ResolveCon
🚗 EUG➡Ashland
🚲 Ashland➡Medford
✈️ Medford➡PDX

Despite having my folding bike for almost 5 years, this will be the first time I've actually traveled with it!

Portland, Oregon, USA • 57°F

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Fri, Sep 30, 2022 9:56am -07:00 #brompton #bike #travel
Turns out if you buy someone an @AlaskaAir flight with your airline miles, it gets added to your own Alaska account, and then you get push notifications when their flight starts boarding and have a mild panic because you thought you were supposed to be at the airport

Portland, Oregon, USA • 69°F

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Wed, Sep 14, 2022 7:23pm -07:00 #travel

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Aaron Parecki

#travel

I took the High-Speed Brightline Train from Miami to Orlando with only two hours notice