With summer travel busy and one-way fares to Nuuk, Greenland sky high on United Airlines, getting to Greenland from Southern California was not as straightforward as stepping onto a nonstop flight.
I’m no longer a young man any longer and I try to avoid domestic redeyes unless I have a lie-flat seat. But since this was a rather last-minute trip to Greenland, business class, marketed as PremiumPlus on Newark to Greenland flight was sold out and it was almost sold out (therefore prices were sky high) on the domestic segments…so I decided to do this trip in economy class.
40K miles for economy class was a lot better than the $1,600 price-tag for the ticket, though the routing I ended up, with all flights on United, was less than ideal:
Palm Springs (PSP) – San Francisco (SFO)
San Francisco (SFO) – Denver (DEN)
Denver (DEN) – Newark (EWR)
Newark (EWR) – Nuuk (GOH)
image: GCMap/Karl Schwartz
But I get to ride the “Devil’s Chariot” from PSP-SFO (I have not been on a CRJ-200 in a couple years!) and then visit the lovely Air Canada Maple Leaf Lounge in SFO during my layover. Plus my upgrade cleared from DEN-SFO, which was quite unexpected, so I’ll have dinner on that flight…followed by a redeye from Denver to Newark and then connection to Greenland.
I may arrive tired in Greenland, but I think the adrenaline rush of visiting a new place will fuel me to hit the ground running.
I’m so excited to visit Greenland and to explore a new realm, even if it is not a country to add my list (and I cannot help but to say here that I hope that Greenland will always be part of the Kingdom of Denmark, need I say more?).
I’ll be “live blogging” this (with a slight delay for my own safety), so stay tuned tomorrow for a burst of shorter posts on the journey as it unfolds.
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