Hello and welcome to episode 181 of Avtoc. I am Ian Petchenick back in Chicago and here as always with

Jason Reminorts welcome back and congratulations on completing your

ridiculous flight itinerary with

Thank you sir no issues whatsoever and I mean upgrade

Yeah all of the issues that arose actually ended up working in my favor, even though there were some

delays.

Like I said, both flights on the way there were delayed, similar amount of time, so those

didn't end up costing me much on the way home.

Made it up to Stockholm after we recorded the podcast.

Had a lovely evening in Stockholm full moon rising and very beautiful stuff, made it home on Saturday, connected to New York,

waved as I landed, Jason, I hope you saw me going and then because of the random assortment of

Sky Team flying that I've ended up doing over the past year I have now achieved

what I had never set out to achieve because this trip was the first time I'd ever flown Delta

Let alone the rest of Sky teams I find super difficult to believe I mean I know Delta is not a hub carrier in

Chicago in any way but come on really I know you did a bunch and they don't have a

hub in New York and I ought to confirm that that Newark is not New York. Newark is not New York anymore that's right. I went back after I said because I believe that and so I was like okay let's make sure I'm not mistaken and I can can't find any time, and there were a couple times

that I've flown through Detroit,

so I was like maybe a food delta there,

I've flown up to me,

but no, both of those times were pre-merger Northwest flights.

Hmm, well, you didn't get Delta's best aircraft.

We know that for sure.

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