Southwest Airlines recently announced a fly with wine free program. Alaska Airlines has had such a program for several years. Check the respective websites for details, because the fine print is important and varies between the two airlines.
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Seems to be limited to purchases in parts of Ca and limited to flights to certain cities.
Certainly not helpful for when I fly to NOLA.
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They also recently added nonstop service between San Diego and Santa Rosa with that benefit paralleling Alaska Airlines. We now have competition and more flexibility with flight times. A wonderful addition
Both airlines apply their program to several originating and destination airports in Washington, Oregon, and California. Check their websites. Alaska allows the destination be any other US city they serve. Southwest looks to be the same. You might need to join their rewards program. Again, check their websites.
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I’ve used it before. It works reasonably well
I love NOLA! Was faced with the same conundrum in April, and opted to fly dry. Fortunately New Orleans is about as wet as city as one could ask for…
Bacchanal Wine, in the Bywater, Come for the grilled sardines and eclectic wines, stay for the live jazz. The much-tattooed doorman was reading Barbara Tuchman’s “A Distant Mirror” because of course, so we talked history while he checked I.D.s. Brother Pete recommended Guns of August and we sashayed in feeling literate (and thirsty).
N7, Bywater, excellent French-Japanese menu. Run do not walk. Somm Leyden Pavlova runs a good wine program. Some may remember her from Paulee NY 26’, pouring for Vogue.
Clancy’s, Uptown. A classic old New Orleans neighborhood white tablecloth place serving up French-Creole food with a great Burg winelist (and no Cab at all) at reasonable (for restaurant) prices. I found a 20 Tremblay MSD Cabottes, Dark muscular fruit with a decent acid streak and med+ tannins bumping shoulders in the glass. Young and still settling down, nothing boring.
And, because no one asked, some pictures from our Po - Boy quest:
Guy’s
Domilise’s, “Why yes, that IS a Michelin Bib Gourmand award on the bar…”
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From what I read last week the Southwest deal pertains to originating flights in WA, CA and OR. So if you were to fly into one of those states with your own shipper the deal would not apply. Still reasonably fair.
A couple of years ago I took Leyden and a friend of hers to dinner with wine from my cellar when she was in DC for one of her WSET exams. She is friends (both enrolled in WSET) with my niece.
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Nice, I have one of those 20 cabottes, probably give it awhile though.
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Love those books.