TUS/LAX,
Just missed several flights, but undaunted - opted for the bigger pool…. PHX.


TUS/PHX
Didn’t realize there is no airside connection between A & B concourses at TUS (so much for AA/US one big happy family)
Didn’t realize I would be going through TSA again.
PreCheck CLOSED
Logjam at security
Got a placard, chosen for extra screening.
One mad dash later, I’m on my way to PHX.


PHX/LAX
I make it, a nice aisle seat too, the non-rev gods are smiling, but there was a dark cloud coming my way, a very apologetic GA. I pick up my gate checked bag and it’s back up the jetway.
BUT, in a stunning turn of events, a few minutes later I get a second bite at the apple; back down the jetway, this time I make it only half way before being called back -
seems security at PHX was a real ‘wildcat’. The pax and I cross, she smiles and nods…“I’m so sorry”, I smile and nod back…“c’est la vie!”
On the bright side I set a new NR record - bumped twice off the same flight in under five minutes - I’ll bet you didn’t even know there was a category.
Flight closed.


PHX/LGB
Checked my options and saw there was a flight to LGB, finally things were starting to go my way…..just not very fast, the PHX moving walkways are broken.
I join the walking masses, the only ones making good time are two kids on those electric hover boards (nice 360 turns).
I made the flight, but uneasy lies the head that’s just set a NR bump record. I exhale only with wheels up.

LGB
There are no jetways at LGB, this comes as quite the surprise for a few of my fellow pax. Down the ramp we went, a small group of us wait near the bottom for our ‘valet checked’ bags. Several are just overjoyed with being on the tarmac, take selfies with the plane, the ramp and the luggage cart - new school meets old school.