Safely ensconced in the lounge after breezing through a painless immigration (no more cash departure tax) and negligible security line.
It’s equivalent to a renovated United Club, with the addition of free Bailey’s to make the coffee drinkable.
Flying to Georgetown, Guyana today, also upgraded.
One of my 2 return flights on Friday is also upgraded, I’m surprised the last one hasn’t yet 
I should have eaten more in the lounge, as I left home without eating, and lunch on the flight won’t be until 11:30 (on a 9:30 departure) and no pdb (pre departure beverage) either – need some coffee with Bailey’s, stat!
Biz class on Cops is like domestic biz on United, which is to say old school barcaloungers and no individual entertainment or power ports. At least they call it business and not “first” (it’s a B737-800).
One hour in and have coffee, watching Maleficent..
Feeling rather unprepared for this trip, with all the crazy work hours lately. Even had to squeeze in a last minute data fix before heading to the airport thus morning, where in my foggy state I misread one request (and passed it on to someone else instead of doing the wrong thing)
Biz lunch after selecting entree from a printed menu… And I guess the salad counts as “veggies” (oh wait, and there’s a bit of spinach under the steak)
I might pre-order a veggie meal on the way back since its actually an option
Cheese melted on the mashed potatoes, and blue cheese sauce for the steak, mmm!
And now I’m glad I didn’t over indulge at breakfast.
Oh well, might as well have the sundae too
Side note: after seeing an article about CATSA (the CDN TSA) being inefficient and over zealous, i found it amusing that they inspected my carryon to look more closely at my nail clippers… And but I was literally the only person at that checkpoint
These early flights (9:30) are killing me
One night stop on way to Guyana…
Have my free status upgrade on Cops Air (they use United Airline’s frequent flyer program).
Will be 30C with daily chance of thunderstorms in both places (and 80-90% chance of rain), even though it’s not the rainy season yet.
I accidentally packed mine in checked luggage and paid the price.
In the plus side I did get upgraded on 5 of 6 legs this trip.
Here is the biz meal from today’s flight to Chicago where I’ll catch up with a friend tonight before continuing to Toronto tomorrow to see my beloved.
That’s the AC lounge on T2 before going outside of security to get to T7 and the lamer but larger UA lounge.
Trial started recently… this is like 1990’s security. No taking off shoes, no laptop and liquids out of the bag (though liquid must still be in 3oz bottles), walk through metal detector.
Sweet!
And you don’t have much time because your inbound flight in terminal Cancer was late… Which way do you go?
If you said left, #fail
There’s a sign for a shuttle just past thete that I missed too.
More on this story later…
I had read that AA and DL were trialing this, but now UA and WS are also allowing it. Finally, no more silly “powered down your devices, not just airline mode”
Also, a refreshing shower in the lounge in EWR sure felt nice (the lounge near C101/C120, not the one by C74)
Biz lunch (dinner?)
Colourful sky with bright contrails forming an X
Gave up my upgrade on a RJ from YYZ to EWR (1hr flight) to go earlier and use an upgrade certificate on EWR to SEA (6hr flight). Booyah!
I was trying to use the upgrade on my original flight but it was looking hopeless
Legend:
HUACA = hang up and call again
SDC = same day change
Upgrade queue jump – taking advantage of flaw in UA’s upgrade process to grab an upgrade before the automated process gives it to a (more) eligible member