the_traveler
Engineer
A very short report about my trip this week. It's been almost a whole month
since I was on a train, so I thought it was time! Besides, I had to re-qualify for Select!
At the last minute (almost - about 1 PM on Tuesday), I made plans to take the 3:xx PM train KIN-BOS. I had found a bunch of unused tickets, some of which would expire in a few weeks. From BOS-NYP, I took AE #2163!
To my surprise, even for an AE departing at 5:20 PM on a workday, and about 4 hours from when I made the reservation, I still was able to use my upgrade coupon!
When I got on, the attendant took my dinner order. I ordered the chicken, but when they brought it, they brought the pasta entre instead. I notified them about the error, but when they brought the chicken, she said she would leave both. (I had taken one of the fold out tables, so there was plenty of room.) So I got 2 meals from BOS to NYP!
At NYP, I went to the CA to wait the 1 hour for my connecting Regional to WAS.
The AE passed thru KIN "slow" - at "only" 148 MPH!
This train departed NYP at 10:05 PM and was scheduled to arrive WAS at 1:25 AM. I sat in the QC, which is located directly behind the BC car. I noticed that they dimmed the lights in the QC, but not in BC at all.
As I said, the train was scheduled to arrive at 1:25 AM. However, due to the HEAVY rain, we were delayed until almost 2 AM! Just south of BWI, it was so hard in fact that the rain could be heard against the windows AND on the Amroof!
I really didn't mind the delay because of 1) it meant more train time
and 2) it reduced my turn time from 1:25 AM until 3:15 AM down to just over 1 hour.
#190 departed WAS on time at 3:15 AM. I had purchased a $15 ticket from WAS to BAL and used a 3K AGR award BAL-KIN. (I also used a 3K AGR award NYP-WAS.) The point run ended at KIN about 20 minutes late at 10:20 AM on Wednesday morning!
Although using the AGR awards resulted in (a still respectable) 3.8¢/point, all together I earned (between the 100 point minimum, select city pairs, 25% bonus for being Select, 2x points and AGR for Business earnings) over 2,300 AGR points for this point run!
I also received a voucher for the unused portion of my unused tickets that I bought these tickets with!
At the last minute (almost - about 1 PM on Tuesday), I made plans to take the 3:xx PM train KIN-BOS. I had found a bunch of unused tickets, some of which would expire in a few weeks. From BOS-NYP, I took AE #2163!
When I got on, the attendant took my dinner order. I ordered the chicken, but when they brought it, they brought the pasta entre instead. I notified them about the error, but when they brought the chicken, she said she would leave both. (I had taken one of the fold out tables, so there was plenty of room.) So I got 2 meals from BOS to NYP!
The AE passed thru KIN "slow" - at "only" 148 MPH!
This train departed NYP at 10:05 PM and was scheduled to arrive WAS at 1:25 AM. I sat in the QC, which is located directly behind the BC car. I noticed that they dimmed the lights in the QC, but not in BC at all.
As I said, the train was scheduled to arrive at 1:25 AM. However, due to the HEAVY rain, we were delayed until almost 2 AM! Just south of BWI, it was so hard in fact that the rain could be heard against the windows AND on the Amroof!
I really didn't mind the delay because of 1) it meant more train time
#190 departed WAS on time at 3:15 AM. I had purchased a $15 ticket from WAS to BAL and used a 3K AGR award BAL-KIN. (I also used a 3K AGR award NYP-WAS.) The point run ended at KIN about 20 minutes late at 10:20 AM on Wednesday morning!
Although using the AGR awards resulted in (a still respectable) 3.8¢/point, all together I earned (between the 100 point minimum, select city pairs, 25% bonus for being Select, 2x points and AGR for Business earnings) over 2,300 AGR points for this point run!
