{"id":281,"date":"2005-05-18T11:39:26","date_gmt":"2005-05-18T11:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=281"},"modified":"2005-05-18T11:39:26","modified_gmt":"2005-05-18T11:39:26","slug":"guess_it_pays_to_be_nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/guess_it_pays_to_be_nice\/","title":{"rendered":"Guess it pays to be nice!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, it&#8217;s pretty easy when you&#8217;re treated nicely. Then, you&#8217;re obligated to return the niceness.<br \/>\nI checked in for my flight.  Was pleasant and smiled (and flirted just a little).  They didn&#8217;t have me in an aisle seat.  I asked (with a big grin) if I could be put on the list for an aisle seat.  She said, &#8220;check at the gate&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nSo I did.  And got bumped to <a href=\"http:\/\/intsvc.aspwb.com\/contents\/C\/index_e.html\">Business Class!<\/a> Yeah!<br \/>\nYou can tell right off the bat that I&#8217;m NOT flying United! Although I was treated to UAL hospitality when I entered the Red Carpet Lounge.  I rudely interrupted a UAL &#8220;person&#8221; talking on her cell phone so I could enter the lounge.<br \/>\nI am flying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fly-ana.com\">ANA<\/a> instead.  It was a better deal than UA.  It&#8217;s a flight from SFO-HKG with a 4 day stopover in big fun Tokyo City! So even with identical itineraries, UA was over US$100 more!  And if I wanted to do a stopover, it would have cost even more!!!<br \/>\nSo was it me just being nice to the bijin at the counter? Or was it due to my Star Alliance Gold status?  Don&#8217;t know and don&#8217;t really care !<br \/>\nAnd despite the fact that my flight has been delayed due to weather, I don&#8217;t care lah!<br \/>\nRelaxed, that what I am&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, it&#8217;s pretty easy when you&#8217;re treated nicely. Then, you&#8217;re obligated to return the niceness. I checked in for my flight. Was pleasant and smiled (and flirted just a little). They didn&#8217;t have me in an aisle seat. I asked (with a big grin) if I could be put on the list for an aisle &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/guess_it_pays_to_be_nice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Guess it pays to be nice!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2005-05-nrt-hkg-sin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-4x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}