Cogito ergo scribo

Am sitting in the lounge of United Airlines, having some snacks and sipping orange juice. This is the first time i'm inside any of the airport lounge.

Uh huh, i'm taking United Airlines this time, the "high risk" airlines that is a likely terrorist's target. The route i'm taking this time is SG-Chicago-Philadelphia. There will be a stop in HK during the SG-Chicago leg for refuel, and the new regulation requires everyone to get down the plane. This means that i'll not be able to sleep all the way through.

According to big boss, if we were to arrive at our destination one day earlier, then we should take economy class rather than business. If we were to take business class, then we should arrive at the destination on the morning of the first working day itself. His rationale is that we can sleep well on board the plane if we are taking business, so we should save one day of hotel charge. As for return flight, we can take business class.

But then, for United Airlines, the way they price their ticket would actually cost more to travel on different classes for a round-trip flight. It turned out to be cheaper to take business class for both journeys than one-way economy and one-way business.

And for some reasons that i wasn't aware of, we are being upgraded to first class for the Chicago-Philadelphia leg. Even though it's just a short journey of about 2 hours, it will still be my first time (and probably the only time) flying first class.

I wonder if the business class on United Airlines is gonna be as pampering as that for SIA. I think i've not blogged about my first-time experience on board the SIA business class, and i guess when i finally get to writing it, it's probably be a comparing the business class between the two airlines.

This time, big boss is not going and leave it entirely to us. The team member who's going with me is the pretty girl. The other staff on our department seem to be envious of her to be able to travel to USA when she has only joined the company for such short time. The one who went with me last time will not be on the USA project anymore due to her weak English. I'm putting her for the other Asian projects, which for sure she would be more comfortable communicating with the users.

Anyway, this is gonna be the first major project the pretty girl is gonna do since she joined the company. She joined us at our slow period where there weren't any active projects going on, and hence she had only been given some tasks to do so far and her performance has been good. Since the start of this year, we've been given tight deadlines on three projects, one for Asia and the other two are USA and Libya. I've assigned this pretty girl to handle the latter two, and i will sure be assessing her performance as we go along.

Labels: travel, work