United Airlines comes through!

Good flight. Yesterday's flights were pretty amazing. I must have really cashed in a considerable amount of "airline carma". To start, I got on a flight out of Madison that was an hour earlier than my scheduled one (which ended up being late, too). When I arrived in Chicago, I noticed a direct flight to Vancouver was departing in about 20 minutes. A quick dash across the concourses and the friendly gate-attendent swapped my tickets for a seat on the direct flight. My total time in airports for the entire trip was probably less than an hour.