Winging it to MIA on UA1418

I’ve switched my watch to reflect the time in Miami, which is two hours ahead of Colorado. So, while it might seem like five hours have passed between footprints, it’s more like three hours.

After the glitch in getting away from home, things went smoothly … thank goodness. This being a Saturday, there was no rush hour traffic to contend with. When we pulled up to DEN at 9:02a, Michelle dropped us off at a curbside UA counter where we checked our bags within minutes. The line at TSA PreCheck was short and the agent directed us to a distant security checkpoint that had no one queued up, so we breezed through that hurdle. The train connecting the different concourses arrived just as we got to the station.

Thus we got to our gate with 30 minutes to spare before boarding was called at 10:00a MDT.

UA1418 is the same flight we would have been on had we not changed our departure from 22 March to today. The only difference is our seats … instead of being in the exit row, we’re in bulkhead seats in Row 7. Both of these rows are Economy+, so we have good leg room.

Though the aircraft pushed back from gate B20 at 10:33a MDT— 2 minutes ahead of schedule — the pilot warned us that our take-off slot had been changed to 11:05a MDT. Nonetheless, he said, that our 3-hour and 24-minute flight would get us to MIA on time Assuming, that is, we don’t run into delays due to weather in Miami … the reason why we had a later departure from DEN. Nothing we can do about the weather. At least we’re in the air now.

Our flight has been uneventful so far … the way all flights should be.

I’ll add more once we get to our home away from home in Miami …Read more