LGA to TPA - All the Luck Possible!

I finished the week by working in CT Saturday with a departure out of LGA to Tampa at 4 pm.

This kind of thing is always nerve wracking because you have to finish the work and then hope like hell that you can get down I-95 and into/thru LGA with time to spare.

It went very well, and once the Avis bus put me out at the Delta terminal, I was lucky enough to get through TSA pre with no issues.

I went to the Sky Club, and got a beverage when I looked at the departure board and saw a nonstop leaving for TPA in just 15 minutes.  (I had a connection through ATL).

The agent at the Sky Club switched me over and put me on the standby list for first.  By the time I got to the gate, the upgrade had cleared, and in the space of no more than 5 minutes, I was sitting in 1A with a beverage.

I landed at TPA at 7 pm, and ended up getting a Saturday night that I did not think I was going to get.  Most of the folks up front were going to Gasparilla - I stopped doing that a couple of years ago. 

But I just could not believe this good luck!

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