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"You’re Flying from Washington to Chicago via Brazil?"

Matthew Klint Posted onMay 22, 2011 3 Comments

You should have seen the face of the United Airlines agent at Sao Paulo last week when I asked for a seat assignment change (moving to an open center section of five seats at the last minute) and she pulled up my itinerary. She noticed that I did not have a departure stamp on my boarding pass and her eyes opened widely when she saw my itinerary. She said a few words in Portuguese to her colleague seated next to her then asked me, "You’re flying from Washington to Chicago via Brazil?"

I smiled and said yes, though I explained I was actually supposed to be in GRU for the 12-hours, but the mechanical delay on the flight I just stepped off changed those plans. The woman laughed and said, "If you say so" before printing my new boarding pass.

Good thing the question came from her and not U.S. immigration authorities.

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Matthew is an avid traveler who calls Los Angeles home. Each year he travels more than 200,000 miles by air and has visited more than 135 countries. Working both in the aviation industry and as a travel consultant, Matthew has been featured in major media outlets around the world and uses his Live and Let's Fly blog to share the latest news in the airline industry, commentary on frequent flyer programs, and detailed reports of his worldwide travel.

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3 Comments

  1. Ken Reply
    May 24, 2011 at 12:17 am

    How do you find stuff like that and how much did it cost? If I could get that type of mileage for the same price as the normal IAD to ORD ticket I would jump at the chance.

  2. Matthew Reply
    May 24, 2011 at 7:22 am

    @Ken: This happened to be an exceptionally good deal I found on the Mileage Run forum on Flyertalk. Usually routing rules are much, much tighter!

  3. Carl Reply
    May 28, 2011 at 11:33 pm

    You forgot to mention that Kona was on the itinerary too.

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