Leigh and I haven’t seen our families in over a year. Our plan was to spend the Christmas/New Year’s holidays, however with the way the COVID case counts are going on the mainland, we weren’t confident that going home would even be an option. In lieu of chancing it, we decided to go now, for 12 days. We’ll be visiting my family in Birmingham, Alabama and Leigh’s in Savannah.
Options from Maui are limited, especially getting to the eastern half of the US. While I’m 1K on United, they just didn’t have any options that took less than 16 hours and two stops. I’m still Platinum on American, and they have a one-stop option through Dallas, and it’s on a 777. Further, American has been doing a lot of the web specials (great pricing, only booked on aa.com) and we got business the entire way for 45k miles each. Not bad considering our flight to Dallas is 8 hours!
I’m most focused on sleeping for this flight, however I’m really interested in the level of service on our flight in a couple of hours. Will there be real bedding? Meals? Drinks? We’re doing the same route on the way back, so I will keep you all apprised on both legs. Hoping for some plush Casper bedding but I’m not holding my breath!
