Welcome!

Welcome! We are less than a week from departing Phoenix and we think we are ready.  That means we aren't ready and just don't know what we are missing. I hope they are minor items or that we think of them in the next week.

We fly United Airlines out of Sky Harbor to Chicago O'Hare and then Lufthansa to Frankfurt. We picked Lufthansa at least partly because they operate direct flights into Marco Polo Airport which is the airport on the mainland that serves Venice. The flights are about 13 and a half hours in the air and 5 and a half hours of layovers, mostly in Frankfurt.

Occasionally I've had a flight time changed between when I bought the tickets and the flight actually departed. Since January when we bought these tickets, there have been four changes. While most were only changing the departure time by a few minutes, one change actually changed the airport from Munich to Frankfurt.  I'm not sure that we care but it was a surprise.