The flight from Salt Lake City to San Francisco was a fairly nice flight.
For some lovely reason I was upgraded to first class. The flight left on
time and arrived about ten minutes early. As usual, the airplane was quite
full…. If Delta has to declare bankruptcy (which they’re threatening to
do), it isn’t because of insufficient traffic.

After arrival I went to the international terminal to check into my Virgin
Atlantic flight to London. The checkin was very slow and the woman at the
counter was unhappy because my carryon weighed more than 13 pounds. She
wanted to have me check the bag, which wouldn’t work, either as there isn’t
room in my computer bag to carry anything else. So I told here that the bag
had to go with me since it had my nasal CPAP machine inside. Of course she
didn’t know what that was, so she had me open the small suitcase to show
her. Then she decided it was a medical device (which it is) and that I was
a risk to fly on the plane without competent medical people accompanying
me. I told her to go get her supervisor. A bunch of people then showed up.
The guy in charge knew what the machine was and really chewed out the
checkin counter girl for making such a fuss. I felt sorry for her! But it
still wasn’t enough to snag a pass into the Virgin Atlantic Upper Class
Lounge. So far my impressions of Virgin Atlantic aren’t very favorable.
Without paying Upper Class fare (much like First Class on the other
airlines), there aren’t any amenities, even though I’m flying what they call
“premium economy”. I think that I’ll go back to normal Business Class on
Delta. It’s much more what I’m expecting.

Some lady in a uniform has just moved everyone here at the gate to another
part of the waiting area and is roping off about half of the waiting area.
It looks like they’re setting up to herd us like sheep. Ugh.