My United Airlines First Class Flight Experience Orange County To Orlando / Houston Layover Delay
United Airlines First Class Orange County To Orlando
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welcome everyone adam the woo here as
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the recording of this it is tuesday
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september 28
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2021
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i am boarding a plane on united airlines
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with a layover in houston texas i am
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going first class
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window seats on both of them the last
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time i flew from florida to here
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actually technically from atlanta to
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here
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did not do the first class every once in
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a while i do it's because you know i'm
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six foot three i am not thin it's nice
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to have some leg room
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and just
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kind of pamper yourself sometimes so
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that's what i'm doing today this time
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united airlines
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inviting you to join
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shall you the first flight departs at
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1209
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after noon and it's about 10 40 right
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now so i got a little bit of time i
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didn't get here too early but early
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enough and this is this airport's not
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too busy it's not lax's john wayne
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there's a total of four boards two for
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departures two for arrivals in
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comparison to some larger
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airports
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this is pretty moderate and there's not
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a lot of long wait time to go through
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the checkpoints and all that and the one
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i will be boarding is the top one of the
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houston's right there it's like 12 1244
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at 1209 and it's on time
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gate 10.
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now they do have this area where you can
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print out a paper boarding pass i have
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done mine mobley checked in online
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we did it that way so it's just a qr
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code
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that they scan makes it pretty simple
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but you can also use the paper paper
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versions as well if you so choose right
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here should also note there is no direct
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flight
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out of this airport to orlando so there
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always is a layover but the time saved
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not sitting in traffic
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up to the greater los angeles area is
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pretty nice also add in the wait times
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for the checkpoints considerably less
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considerably
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less
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maybe only about 30 people
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from what i'm saying if i had to guess
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and had to say it's you know probably
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about five or ten minutes tops
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wait time i can handle that definitely
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handle that now if i was under 12 or
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over 75 i would still have to remove
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liquids and laptops but i could leave my
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shoes on
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and head wear on but because i'm
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i'm not either of those i have to take
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my hat off and
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my shoes off
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i am not i am not pre-checked yet
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i'll do that one of these days the
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pre-check line is right over there it's
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a few few people shorter
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that was relatively quick
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didn't take too long yeah one of these
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days i'm going to sign up for the
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pre-check it would save me a little bit
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of time especially in the busier
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airports but for now i'm just i just
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take my shoes and belt off
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like everyone else and i put my shoes
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back on
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one at a time
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was that the saying i put my pants on
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pant legs on what it is something like
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that this is gate nine gate 10 is the
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one where my plane will be pulling in to
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the station it has not arrived yet but i
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just wanted to give a look at one of the
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other united airliners that's parked
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adjacent this is kind of like the
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neighboring plane once my arrives i'll
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show that one that's pulling into the
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port as well
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so that's number nine
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number 10
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is right over there so my plane will be
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arriving right there to that little
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little walkway very soon and also
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peeking out this side of the window at
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gate eight is another united flight
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the window's a little a little dirty but
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you can still
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you still see it pretty well now there
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is a ruby diner in
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i'm gonna wait here get a meal on the
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plane i'm hoping they have a meal on the
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plane as well this is a little bit
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better angle so you get gate number
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eight there of course gate number nine
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right over look at that van down there
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that aviation van it's like something
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the a-team
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would drive ea barakas
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might be maybe
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maybe mr t and b.a barakas are have
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i never mind i'm gonna say maybe he's
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working at the airport but
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it's similar kind of looks like my old
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van too
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i guess my old van was similar to the 18
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18 van
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as well i never thought of it that way
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if i still had my van i could get it
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painted like the 18 van
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you know what's one thing that's funny
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though mr t's character b.a barakas
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hated to fly
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so it's kind of a nice tie-in right they
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have this artwork here which makes you
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feel as if you're on the side of a hill
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in the meadows and in reality you're in
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the hustle and bustle of an airport oh
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goodness there's a helicopter landing
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look at that helicopter it just landed
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i almost missed it
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a helicopter just landed here at the
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airport
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this place is a real beehive
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of activity ooh getting a little behind
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the scenes here at gate nine
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gate nine is pulling away from that
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airliner
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and there's another delta airliner about
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to take off on the runway over there
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and then the luggage carts going by
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i find all this stuff fascinating
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just just flying in general
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such a cool experience
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i used to be frightened of it years ago
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when i hadn't flown many times this guy
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down here is dancing
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that's kind of how i feel when i'm about
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to board an airplane
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he feels that way at work it's pretty
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good to see people happy
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he's dancing down there
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hey this other one's about to take off
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all right i'm gonna wait oh and then
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another employees employee's playing the
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drums
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down there on the sticks
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okay there it goes taking off
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airliner taking off and another teeny
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tiny one
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pulling into the station
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i have too much fun with these flights
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i do believe it is happening gate 10 my
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plane is now pulling up to well off the
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tarmac which is just another word for
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concrete
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pulling into i get it
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for some reason i keep saying that
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the pulling into the station bit
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never gets old in my mind but it
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probably does
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probably does get old
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this is my pony well it's not a pony
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it's a plane but
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it starts with the same letter
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okay
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watch this little behind the scenes
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motion here
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as the walkway pulls up like an
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accordion
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it's gonna like kind of attach itself to
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the door
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right
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i call those stanchions but there's
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another word for those that go
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underneath the wheels keep the keep the
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plane from rolling around as long as no
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one walks underneath that ladder the
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luck will still be good because it is
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bad luck to walk underneath hope there's
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another united flight landing
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and another teeny tiny personal plan
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going by
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no one walked under that ladder you can
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go around the ladder just don't go
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underneath it i don't need any bad luck
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on this fight
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you can see the passengers who are about
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to deboard
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their exit is now being or not exit
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their luggage is now being pulled off
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don't walk under that ladder sir
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now this gentleman is pulling the hose
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across from
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the fuel station
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okay that's neat
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seeing the fueling up of the plane i'm
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gonna be getting on
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so he's pulling that very heavy hose
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across up he didn't go underneath okay
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oh that's what's happening he's gonna
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climb the ladder
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and stick the hose into the wing peeking
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in the door there
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up and there's another united flight
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backing out
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being taxied out
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getting the opening of the door the food
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door
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as i would refer to it as
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to put the meals on the sky chefs
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are about to take care of business
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looks as if there are 22 gates because
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the size of the airport not too massive
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and i'm just kind of pacing around a
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little bit looking at you know from a
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from another window looking at my
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airplane from gate 10 from the other
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angle and it looks as if they
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were here okay group one that is my
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group and the boarding process has now
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begun my seat is 4a it's a window seat
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i believe that the fourth row back on
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the
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window i can't remember which side
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though
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one both both flights today are on two
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different sides two different wings i
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wanted to get a couple different angles
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all right
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leaving this airport admit
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let us know if you need any assistance
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finding a place for your bag we're here
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to help
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also on today's flight we'll be selling
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today's fight remove your face mask
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before putting on your oxygen
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mask
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thanks again for buying with us i'll be
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back with more details about today's
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flight once we're in the air
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it is a little overcast and cloudy today
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a little bit different for southern
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california
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usually clear skies not a lot of rain
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now what happens next as we do a
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complete turnaround
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and head east
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we're gonna do almost like a
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180
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over the ocean and then go back
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the opposite way
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that's what's happening now
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and we're on our way to houston
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thank you for choosing applying united
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today
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your safety is always our top priority
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we're taking actually be a safe and
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healthy travel experience
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feel free to move around the cabin as
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you wish that will be asking well in
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your seats please keep your
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we should be there at 505.
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eastern time
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they have coke products
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i was wondering if they had either a dr
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pepper or mr pitt but they didn't
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coke diet coke
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i think maybe sprite and root beer
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so i went to cook classic
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and gonna go with a carved chicken
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an italian on an italian bread sandwich
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served on this ceramic plate
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i have to admit that sandwich was pretty
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dang tasty
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i could probably ate another one
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granted
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i do have another flight so maybe
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they'll serve
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a similar or same item it was really
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good
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oh yeah one thing i always do on flights
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is chew gum
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always chewing gum keeps my ears from
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popping
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especially on takeoff and landings but
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just force a habit on the on the entire
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unless i'm drinking a beverage or eating
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a meal
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might get a few knobs here out of it so
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we're gonna go and turn the seatbelt
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slide
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back on if you are turned on please
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return your seats and spin your seats
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until we get on the other side this
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weather once that uh
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and the game looks like uh
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5 10
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10 minutes after five o'clock local time
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and latest weather we got light winds 10
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visibility
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overcast cloudy skies temperatures
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please remember us here at united
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airlines
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recyclables
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bring your seats up and move your hands
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and forwards back to the original
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position and put away
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got one of the interstate freeways down
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there and a little more cloud formations
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here very hazy
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clouds
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touching down soon
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let me continue to use the charger pull
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the tablet everything in excel please do
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not plug your devices into the outlet
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don't forget to check your seat back
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pocket and area around your seat to make
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sure you have all of your belongings and
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be careful when opening overhead then
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coming out of the entire united team
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director allies partners thank you for
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choosing to fire with us today i hope
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you've enjoyed your time and look
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forward to meeting you again soon
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it's been raining here
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it's even tough to see out the windows
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now with all the
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all the mist on the windows
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see if i can make it to the next gate in
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time i think i got about a half hour
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till the next boarding
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works out well
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well it depends how close the gate is to
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this one
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no houston has a big airport the one i
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am looking for is c
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one
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c one
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i'm just peeking out here and getting
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this look real before i start heading
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over to c1
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looks as if i need to go
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right up here
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there we go c1 through
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c15
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uh this way and you can see just how
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many departures here one two three four
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five six departure boards it is now
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about 5 15 p.m houston time i had a 6 20
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p.m
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departure
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620 connection that has been pushed
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forward an hour it's been delayed by at
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least an hour
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now the boarding time is 6 40.
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as well as a gate change now gate 41
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probably has something to do with the
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weather the inclement weather
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out
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there a little dreary
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i can i can i can handle an hour delay
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i miss a long travel day anyway when you
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have layovers
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and what else what else do i have to do
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i have no choice i have to be i have to
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sit here
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not so bad
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got a nice little array of airlines hair
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liners right down there
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and this is not my plane obviously
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because it hasn't arrived yet
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i believe there he's about to fuel up
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too got the ladder going up on the wing
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or maybe he just fueled uh he may have
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just fueled it up see the raindrops
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there
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falling
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against the wind oh a little bit of
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lightning too
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i'm just walking around stretching my
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legs
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i've been sitting a while so just
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walking around the whole airport or at
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least the
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united section anyway
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just received this also about the flight
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it says i can pick a different one if i
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so choose
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however it doesn't really make a lot of
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sense because
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this is the soonest i could get there so
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i'm just gonna just gonna stay with the
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same one
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even though it's just an hour to last
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that's really in all honesty not that
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bad of course that's if it still stays
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at this time frame with the weather
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being like it is
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it could get really exciting and be
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delayed even more
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i'm just going to put it into the i'm
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just going to put it in the universe and
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put it out there that that doesn't
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happen though
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look at all these planes look at all
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these uniteds
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there's a lot of them
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if it stays like this it should be a fun
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take off too
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maybe a lot of turbulence which will
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make things a little extra exciting
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gives me a little more opportunity to
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just stare at some of these planes
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that state it's always fascinating
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just look how many vehicles are down
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taking care of business
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that little one there is taxiing out
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that one
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so without the own own plane power uses
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that little
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the little barge type item even though
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it's on wheels so i wouldn't call it a
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barge
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but it pulls the plane out see how it's
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see how it's taxiing it out so it's the
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taxi it's called a taxi not a barge
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not a land barge
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and there's someone screaming behind me
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very much so yeah i know these layovers
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can really be
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taxing
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no pun intended
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i know how you feel
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especially when those are the lie
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i do know it's cliche
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oh look at that little vehicle i do know
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it's very cliche and almost
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too typical
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to even state this
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but because of this delay for me
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i just
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houston
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we have a problem
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oh man that was bad
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someone's coffee behind me
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and sneezing
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i just had something very interesting
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happen to me for the first time
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in doing these airplane travel type of
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videos
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ended up having a couple of
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a couple of
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plainclothes security walk up to me and
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asked me what i was doing showed me
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their badges pulled me to the side kind
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of pulled me over away from everything
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and questioned me and then after after a
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while
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i started to gain a little bit of
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interest in
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my channel and what i do and doing the
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travel videos and they were pretty
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fascinated and kind of scrolled through
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all the videos so
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if they are watching this want to say
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thank you for being so kind and nice
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and gracious and and understanding of
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what i was doing
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and they said that there i was the first
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one they've ever seen kind of pacing
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around
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an airport filming out their windows so
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and i'm also thankful that they did stop
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to ask what i was doing because
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honestly i'm kind of wondering why more
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airplanes airports don't ask me
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like what i'm doing as i'm walking
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around filming out the windows but they
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were cool with it so
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a little shout out to the
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plane close houston
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security with their badges i was a
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little nervous at first but then i
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figured it'd all be okay and it was
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all right still waiting for it this
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isn't my plan but just just want to tell
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that story and i did let them know that
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i would not put them in the video so
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just kind of gonna stick by that just no
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reason that no reason to to show them
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but yeah it was pretty pretty
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interesting kind of kind of another
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exciting element to this day
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yeah the sun is all has almost setted
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i was hoping maybe on upon takeoff i
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could get the sunset
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taken off but i think it's already going
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to be
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over the horizon by the time
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i depart
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it has arrived
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parked and
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the walkway is making its way towards
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the front of us doing a little
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i'm going to start boarding soon enough
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yeah they are really on top of it
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this vehicle pulling in this the there's
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a taxi
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vehicle
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you can see all the
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got the fuel station over there
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and it's there it is let me zoom in
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that's what i'm gonna be walking down
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momentarily
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finally about to start heading towards
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orlando
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it has been an eventful day a lengthy
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day
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i mean layovers usually are but how to
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delay it add a delay and it definitely
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adds to it
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on this one i am in seat four f
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on the other side of the plane the wings
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the other wing
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oh yeah running up elbow
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and leg room
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i like it so the other other flight i
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was over there in that corner
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this white and over here in this corner
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i like it because you can spread out put
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your arms here
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put your arms here smaller items
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including your jacket
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with you
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finding a place we're here to help
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you
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that you can rest please don't pull your
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seat belt over your blanket or clothing
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so we don't have to wait
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and went ahead and went with another
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coca-cola
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in the can and a glass of ice
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and i believe they're going to bring
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some more of those sandwiches through
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that were on the other flight
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it was good
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seatbelt signs coming back on if you're
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up in the mouth we appreciate you slowly
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returning to your seat make sure your
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seat belts fast and hope to see you in
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the future blackberries
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ah orlando
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the window shade for arrived
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flight attendants please prepare a
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crappin for arrival be seated
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that's the orlando eye down there icon
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orlando that big ferris wheel that's
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international drive
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and
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i-4
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and old town kissimmee
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and i believe celebration
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right over in there
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of course i'll be getting it off at the
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and then going home to my place
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in celebration but somewhere right in
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that little area
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ladies and gentlemen welcome to orlando
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where the local time is 10 29
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please stay comfortably seated until the
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seatbelt sign is off
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you may continue to use and charge your
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phone and stealth and e-readers
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if you're sitting in an expert role
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please don't plug your devices into the
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outlet
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pockets and around your seat to make
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be careful when opening overhead bins
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on behalf of the entire united team and
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our star alliance partners thank you for
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complying with us today
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we hope you enjoyed your flight we'll
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see you soon
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i made it there's a little carpet
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zamboni
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in here
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and that's gonna do it for
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today i have made it
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from southern california
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with an extended layover in houston in
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and now
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central florida i've arrived
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it's good to be here i can already feel
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a little
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it's not warm but it definitely you can
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feel a little bit more humidity
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i can just
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i can feel it i'm gonna cut off my skin
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but it's not warm it feels good we'll
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see in the next video the vlog