UA4067 BWI EWR 0510 0615 ER4 18A

A bright and cheery flight attendant (older, male, with a
Balkan or at least East European accent), a bumpy and
uneventful flight. We arrived at gate 27, with gate 28
being the bus gate to terminal C, where my next flight
departed from.

I didn't know if I was entitled to the Polaris lounge
(though assigned a bed seat, my boarding pass said
business rather than Polaris business, a seemingly
negligible distinction, because all United business
is supposed to be Polaris. Whatever; I just kiped
the club wi-fi, which seems to be available widely
through the terminal.)

UA 497 EWR SFO 0810 1107 772 3F was 2G

As I was about to settle into my seat next to a cute
Asian woman, she stopped me. Might I switch seats with
her mother in 3F (a middle seat). I thought about this
briefly and, being a sucker, said okay. I apologized
in advance to the guy in 3G, who said that was all right,
as he too was on medication that made him get up often.

This configuration has one of the least comfy business
class cabins ever, with 8-across seating (Economy Plus
is 9 across) with 2 middle seats in each row. It wasn't
really worth the upgrade, because it cost me a coupon
that I could have used on a nicer flight, and my status
gives me free alcohol and a free meal even in coach.
Okay, if I'd had my assigned aisle seat, things would
have been better.

Service was pleasant but abstracted, and I got the
benign neglect treatment that no-status mom would have
deserved, while the crew were more attentive to her.
Further, mom was rude to me consistently (hmph, he
tried to sit in my seat by my daughter); the daughter
was okay, though. I should have said no.

WELCOME ABOARD
Boston New York San Francisco Los Angeles
September 2018

START

Fruit and yogurt - fresh seasonal fruit, greek yogurt,
granola served with breakfast breads, butter, and
fruit preserves

The fruit were better than usual - a couple quite good
grapefruit segments, half an orange, four or five sweet Red
Flame grapes, and three slices of almost ripe pineapple.
The granola wasn't too sweet; I ate it by itself, and an
otherwise pleasant motherly flight attendant told me that
it was meant to be sprinkled on the yogurt - it's very good
that way, she said; I replied that I didn't like yogurt
(this was Chobani vanilla Greek, relatively okay for yogurt,
but who needs it). Breakfast breads were a cinnamon roll
and/or a croissant; I passed on these.

MAIN

baked egg white pastry with kale and tomato served
with fire-roasted red pepper sauce and Canadian bacon

brioche souffle with berries served with vanilla
cream sauce, mixed berry sauce and pork sausage

cereal served with milk

I said anything would be okay, but I'd prefer the French
toast thingy, and that's what I got. It was huge, perhaps
12 oz of sugary carbs that actually tasted kind of good.
The brioche was briochelike, soaked in custard, with
blueberries embedded; the berry sauce had detectible
raspberries and blueberries, the vanilla sauce detectible
vanilla. The sausages were double size breakfast sausages
and pretty okay, the not-too-saltiness needed to cut the
somewhat-too-sweetness of the mzin event.

PRE-ARRIVAL

A selection of tasty snacks and freshly prepared wraps

Turkey sandwich or veggie wrap. I had a little envelope
of roasted chickpeas instead.

After a couple hours I felt slightly thirsty and so asked
the cutish matronly FA for a Buffalo Trace on the rocks.
She came back with a triple and said "I poured you what I
pour for myself." I sort of wondered about this, but she
was not at the door as we deplaned, so that indicated to
me that her possible flirtation was not a serious one.
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