Well, Dave, you took a two-day trip and that's all you have to say about it? Seriously, I hope you get the job. Let an old hand at flying on United (My daughter is one of their flight attendents. The blonde one)assure you that it's a safe airline and involves less stress than several others I've flown on. You are a darn sight safer on an airplane than you would be driving to Denver. I've made the Manchester to Chicago leg several times and the contrast between the two terminals is staggering. Manchester is so clean and peaceful and O'Hare is a zoo. Naturally I've been stuck in Chicago, missed flights, been bumped there and made the concourse B to concourse C dash both ways.
Two more comments. If you come into Chicago from any direction, your approach is usually over the lake. It's because the prevailing wind is from the southwest and airplanes land into the wind.
And did you know that the most reliable machine known to man is a jet engine? They just sit out there and spin for millions of miles.
Howard