Flying into Salt Lake City<\/a><\/p>\n My good friend Lee was very generous and invited Scott and I to his ski condo in Park City for a long guys weekend. Lee, Scott, and I get together usually a couple times a year, and they are some of my favorite trips. The three of us have known each other since college, and it\u2019s great to get away from work and family and goof off together. And so it was that on Friday February 21st<\/sup>, I booked a first class round trip ticket with Delta from Sacramento to Salt Lake City.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n I normally would purchase a coach itinerary on a one-hour flight, but SMF-SLC approaches two hours in length when you include loading and taxiing. Additionally, these two flights were on Embraer E175 aircrafts, and I really enjoy the single seats, port side, in the 1-2 seat configuration of the first-class cabin. The cost difference between coach and first was $180.00 for the round trip, and that was an acceptable upcharge for a great \u201cguys weekend\u201d together.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n The trip was scheduled for April 2nd<\/sup> through the 6th<\/sup>, 2020 \u2013 Thursday through Monday. That gave us three full days (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) of \u201cgoof off fun\u201d, plus the extra time of Thursday evening and Monday morning to connect. The trip would be outstanding. In early March as the news of Covid-19 started to drift through the markets and media, we wondered if we were going to have to cancel our trip. Then mid-March all hell broke loose, and it was obvious we wouldn\u2019t be able to go. Normally we would be upset about the trip being cancelled, but during the second half of March it was an unreal blur as the world changed into Bizarro land. There were bigger issues for sure.<\/p>\n