Update on the Trip
I mentioned a couple of my favorite Philippines travel sources. A few months back, Spouse and I had planned to go to the Philippines about this time for a vacation and family reunion.Â
 Because we’ve been busy with our business (www.satviz.com) and because Spouse is waiting everyday to hear from the USCIS (formerly the INS) about her US citizenship application, we put the idea of the trip on the back burner. Well a little over a week ago when I cranked this idea for a blog up and posted about travel sources, we made a hasty decision that Spouse would go. All her sisters will be back there at the same time, something that may never happen again for years, and we knew how happy it would make Mom, so we decided to “do it”Â
Spouse emailed Ed Mabunga and he came right back with a very decent price on travel from Denver via United and China Air. We snapped it up, had tickets in hand in less than 72 hours and started packing. Â
United started the rip out pleasantly with a really helpful check in fellow at DIA. He pointed out that her Philippine passport …new last year … didn’t have a machine-readable bar code strip on the title page and pointed out that according to United’s info (I believe he got it here, United, for some reason, doesn’t want to let passengers look up their own info, but Northwest has this entry page to the Timatic system which is used by most ICAO carriers) and that entry to the Philippines without the code strip would be restricted after January 2007. Good to kno2, although I hope to goodness we’re living there full time long before next winter.Â
OK, bottom line, flights went well, luggage was checked from Denver through to Manila and arrived fine and all flights were on time … the Denver to Los Angeles segment actually left 4 minutes early.Â
Spouse arrived at Manila a little more than 22 clock hours from the moment she left Denver. Good service from United, China Air and Ed Mabunga, thanks to all of them for treating my mahal well, I miss her a lot, already.Â
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