As soon as class was done on Friday (February 15, 2019), I was out of there. I hopped on the 3pm flight from Kelowna to Seattle, heading towards Salt Lake to meet Hunter. Once in Seattle, I got a drink at the Hudson and was able to pretend to be crew and get a discount. I always love being able to get discounts when I can, the parka really helps! I headed to gate A6 to try the first of 3 SLC options. It wasn't looking great, but since the weather has been messy, I was hoping for some missing passengers. Unfortunately, I didn't make that flight by one seat, but I made the next one and was so happy to get out of Seattle. I had to get out that night otherwise I was probably going to get stuck, the morning flight to Salt Lake had something like 80 people listed for it, so that wasn't going to happen. I finally made it to SLC at 11:45 local and headed to the Hotel to meet Hunter. We stayed at the Four Points and it was lovely. We had a room on the executive floor! I showered quickly and went to bed because we needed to be up in about 5 hours.
We woke up at 5:45 (February 16, 2019), got our things together, and headed to the airport to catch a flight to JFK. Our plan was SLC-JFK-LHR-CDG. We got sat one behind the other in the middles for the 4.5 hour flight to New York, shockingly the person beside Hunter in the aisle and the person beside me at the window knew each other. We asked them if they wanted to move and the woman didn't want to because she didn't want a middle, however, she continued to yell across the seats at him and when asked again still refused. Some people are very weird!
Four hours later and we landed in New York. We had about 3 hours before we needed to go to our gate, so we decided to check out a lounge with our new Priority Passes. Hunter and I signed up for a new credit card and one of the perks is access to 1000s of lounges and other airport benefits. Seeing as we fly an incredible amount, having lounge access is going to be amazing.
The lounge we went to was called Wingtips in Terminal 4. It was very easy to get in using the app and showing our boarding passes. It was pretty crowded when we arrived, but it came it little bursts. There was almost any kind of drink available and snacks. Hunter had some sweet potato soup and I had cheeses. I also had this snack mix stuff that was pretty good.
After a bit of debate, Hunter and I decided we were going to spend the day in London and fly to Paris first thing on the 18th. This still gives us plenty of time to see Paris and we both adore London, so it was an easy choice.
It was almost 5pm so we decided to head to our gate. We had to go out of security and take a train to terminal 8, the American terminal. Once there we went through security, found our gate, and began the waiting game. Slowly they boarded the plane and finally, we got called up to get seats. To our luck, we got 11D and 11G in business. It's our first business class flight together on American Airlines which is very exciting!
We took our seats and got ready to depart. This time of night at JFK is very busy so it took about 30 minutes to get in the air. In the meantime, we had our meal orders taken. I decided to go with the chicken option and Hunter went with beef.
We always start off with nuts!
They served breakfast about 45 minutes before arrival. We had egg, potatoes, bacon, fruit, and a choice of bread. It was ok, but not my favorite.
So the 24 hour London adventure begins! Stay tuned to see how it unrolls.
Date: February 15-16, 2019
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