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Author: John RowlandJohn Rowland Date: May 12, 2008 09:23
On "Building The Biggest", an Airbus bod said "Say five years from now
you're leaving London Heathrow, are you going to choose the 30 years old 747
for the same ticket price, or are you going to choose this new 21st century
space ship?"
Personally, I've never had any idea what plane I was using during the
flight, never mind before. I choose flights by cost, flight time, start
airport and finish airport. I have a preference for SAS over BA because the
food's better, but even that would be a low priority compared to other
things. Does anyone here choose flights according to plane type?
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Author: John WrightJohn Wright Date: May 12, 2008 09:31
John Rowland wrote:
> On "Building The Biggest", an Airbus bod said "Say five years from now
> you're leaving London Heathrow, are you going to choose the 30 years old 747
> for the same ticket price, or are you going to choose this new 21st century
> space ship?"
>
> Personally, I've never had any idea what plane I was using during the
> flight, never mind before. I choose flights by cost, flight time, start
> airport and finish airport. I have a preference for SAS over BA because the
> food's better, but even that would be a low priority compared to other
> things. Does anyone here choose flights according to plane type?
I like to go by legroom, and the chap I used to work with, being 6ft 5in
tall liked to go for this as well as large seats. We tended to use
Virgin Premium Economy if he couldn't use Upper Class.
--
John Wright
I feel like an insane person with the ability to mimic sanity
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Author: MeMe Date: May 12, 2008 09:49
> John Rowland wrote:
>> On "Building The Biggest", an Airbus bod said "Say five years from now
>> you're leaving London Heathrow, are you going to choose the 30 years old 747
>> for the same ticket price, or are you going to choose this new 21st century
>> space ship?"
>>
>> Personally, I've never had any idea what plane I was using during the
>> flight, never mind before. I choose flights by cost, flight time, start
>> airport and finish airport. I have a preference for SAS over BA because the
>> food's better, but even that would be a low priority compared to other
>> things. Does anyone here choose flights according to plane type?
>
> I like to go by legroom, and the chap I used to work with, being 6ft 5in
> tall liked to go for this as well as large seats. We tended to use
> Virgin Premium Economy if he couldn't use Upper Class.
>
I have had the chance to fly First Class back across from the US. I got
upgraded, but the explanation is too complicated. I had a steak cooked ...
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Date: May 12, 2008 10:27
> I have had the chance to fly First Class back across from the US. I got
> upgraded, but the explanation is too complicated. I had a steak cooked
> to my preference, my own bottle of very nice wine, and a seat where I
> could not touch the seat in front of me. Oh, and I had a hand job in the
> middle of the Atlantic*.
I got to travel first class on Swissair in the good old days. Quite an
experience. Everyone in first class was a multi-millionaire of some
sort, well except for me, obviously. And the attention was so terminally
obsequious that I'm sure that if I had asked the stewardess to polish
the grapes in her cleavage it would have been done.
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Author: MeMe Date: May 12, 2008 10:35
> Me tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> >> I have had the chance to fly First Class back across from the US. I got
>> upgraded, but the explanation is too complicated. I had a steak cooked
>> to my preference, my own bottle of very nice wine, and a seat where I
>> could not touch the seat in front of me. Oh, and I had a hand job in the
>> middle of the Atlantic*.
>
> I got to travel first class on Swissair in the good old days. Quite an
> experience. Everyone in first class was a multi-millionaire of some
> sort, well except for me, obviously. And the attention was so terminally
> obsequious that I'm sure that if I had asked the stewardess to polish
> the grapes in her cleavage it would have been...
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Author: MeMe Date: May 12, 2008 10:37
>> Me tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>> >>> I have had the chance to fly First Class back across from the US. I got
>>> upgraded, but the explanation is too complicated. I had a steak cooked
>>> to my preference, my own bottle of very nice wine, and a seat where I
>>> could not touch the seat in front of me. Oh, and I had a hand job in the
>>> middle of the Atlantic*.
>>
>> I got to travel first class on Swissair in the good old days. Quite an
>> experience. Everyone in first class was a multi-millionaire of some
>> sort, well except for me, obviously. And the attention was so terminally
>> obsequious that I'm sure that if I had asked the stewardess to polish
>> the grapes in her cleavage it would have been done.
>>
> Now there's a thought. I must remember that the next time the GF comes
> over. LOL. ...
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Author: John RowlandJohn Rowland Date: May 12, 2008 10:58
Steve Firth wrote:
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> I got to travel first class on Swissair in the good old days. Quite an
> experience. Everyone in first class was a multi-millionaire of some
> sort, well except for me, obviously. And the attention was so
> terminally obsequious that I'm sure that if I had asked the
> stewardess to polish the grapes in her cleavage it would have been
> done.
You'd think at first class prices you'd get stewardesses who don't have
haemorrhoids.
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Date: May 12, 2008 11:12
> Except, knowing her
Too much information...
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Author: MeMe Date: May 12, 2008 11:33
> Me tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> >> Except, knowing her
>
> Too much information...
>
:-) It never ceases to amaze me. Those that were so coy twenty years ago
have now so chnanged their outlook. :-)
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Author: Graham HarrisonGraham Harrison Date: May 12, 2008 11:48
"John Rowland" journeyflow.spamspam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:g09qv4$2sc$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk...>
> On "Building The Biggest", an Airbus bod said "Say five years from now
> you're leaving London Heathrow, are you going to choose the 30 years old
> 747 for the same ticket price, or are you going to choose this new 21st
> century space ship?"
>
> Personally, I've never had any idea what plane I was using during the
> flight, never mind before. I choose flights by cost, flight time, start
> airport and finish airport. I have a preference for SAS over BA because
> the food's better, but even that would be a low priority compared to other
> things. Does anyone here choose flights according to plane type?
>
Oh yes; definitely. I *have* ridden on ex soviet aircraft but only because
I had to - no other way of getting to my destination (or at least not
without severe disruption to my schedule) otherwise I would avoid them like
the plague. I also had an interesting ride in 2001 on a very early 737 in
Argentina that I might have avoided had I known.
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