Kudos to American Airlines.

After spending almost 9 hours in the Las Vegas airport last weekend, I was pretty pissed. I went standby on a flight to get out the city earlier and home to get some sleep. The plane I flew standby on had mechanical issues. Something about a malfunctioning alarm. 

They kept pushing back the flight, so I called my travel agent and she rebooked me on the next available flight…which was 6:15pm the next day! Talk about unhappy. American Airlines finally found another plane to fly everyone back to Dallas. The bad news was that it left at 9:30pm, landing in Dallas at 2am. I know shit happens so I didn’t complain to American Airlines. I just rolled with the punches.

Today, I got a surprise in my inbox. American Airlines gave me 5,000 miles on my account! Kudos to them.

Plane ticket for my cousin’s wedding….

Booked…almost.

I reserved the ticket so I had some time to call my mom and let her know that I ended up getting on the same departing flight as my dad and the same return flight as both of them and now Continental won’t let me actually purchase the ticket. At least I have it on reserve for 24 hours, but I am going to have to call customer service in the morning. I despise dealing with customer service, especially when I have to call. Hopefully, it is painless since the ticket is technically just sitting there waiting for me to buy it.

The good news about having to deal with this…I had enough miles on Continental, which I never fly anymore since I moved to Dallas, from my trip to South Korea last year that I only had to pay the $5 fee for my ticket. And…since I didn’t use my American Airlines miles, I have tons of them to use either later in the year or save until next year and hopefully go on some amazing trip. Maybe Mexico…or back to Napa…or Aspen or Taos for a ski trip in the winter.

A real vacation would be nice, but for the time being, I am going to Las Vegas for work (and staying a few extra days for a mini-vacation) in March, possibly LA for work for a day or two in March and New Jersey in both April and May.