I'm flying out to San Francisco later this afternoon. Since I'm Gold Elite on Northwest, I've been upgraded to First Class this year on every flight except one. For this flight, I'm on United. The next closest flight on Northwest was $1,300 more, which I couldn't justify. I was really hoping to get Northwest because of my flight schedule: I fly out today, I've got an 11:25PM flight tomorrow night from San Fran to Chicago, which gets me in at 5:00 AM. That gives me a few hours to get to my hotel and sleep before my meetings in the afternoon. I fly back on Thursday.

The nice thing about all the plane time is that I'm able to crank through a lot of back-emails. I've got about 400 that I need to sort through.