Maybe they could change me to a flight that has a first-class option and I could buy that

first class is usually more expensive than two economy seats

Well I don't know if they would have two economy seats open on my flights

I might just end up getting kicked off the plane and not be able to travel

I'm realizing that I'm probably just antagonizing your anxiety right now

Well it's a real situation I'm going to have to deal with

you probably have nothing to worry about

how long is the flight

So it's for total including the return flights

I think it's about eight or nine hours and total flying time

oh

you are crossing an ocean?

Going from Philadelphia to California

no stop overs?

Yeah one stop over that's why I said it's for flights

Four

if you can afford it, I would honestly recommend getting a second ticket

the biggest danger is being denied entry to a connection flight and being stranded somewhere mid-country

Well the connecting flights in Phoenix so if I got stranded there I could drive the rest of the way

the only way to guard against that is two tickets

how short notice is this? like do you leave tomorrow?

Thursday

yeah I wouldn't worry about it

I was really trying to avoid having to fly until I finish losing some of this damn weight

it'll probably be fine

But the other engineer on my team couldn't go because his dad sick

Am I not be fine man I might not be able to make the trip and lose my job

just trying to releave some of your anxiety

worse case scenario you rent a car and drive it?

No man I would take like almost a week to make that drive

yeah I don't know about the timelines you are under, but yeah it would

I don't know if I should call the airline and ask them or if I should just wait till I get there and if I have to buy another one by another one

call in customer service is next to worthless in my experience for this kind of thing

but it can't hurt to call them

The lady at the airline thinks I'm strategically positioned such that I probably won't have passengers next to me

I really need to step up the weight loss

I'm really sad I have to put my cat in boarding for a week.

I hope he doesn't get too sad.

Make sure to check out the place thoroughly if you can't keep them with a friend or have a friend come over and look after them

I think some can be quite good

I use my vet