A day of flying
Everyone is familiar enough with the difficulties of long flights that I have no desire to rehash the travails of a day that started 7am in Los Angeles and ended 8am in Iceland. Except to share a nice anecdote from the Los Angeles to Seattle flight, and to give props to the lovely SeaTac airport (I did not take photos, but the views out the window over the mountains, and the artworks displayed everywhere, are really neat). I hope Icelandair can make that route stick. SAS had it for years and years, and they had a loyal customer base there. I hope that transfers over to Icelandair.
OK, now to my story.
I flew Alaska Airlines from LA to Seattle. Alaska Airlines is what they call a full service carrier, instead of a discount carrier. Basically, this means there is still an inflight magazine. I was pleased with the magazine, not only because it had a piece on the history of museums which showcased four new museums, but also because it highlighted two of the airlines charities. They regularly help the Alaska Raptor Center, and they also sponsor Olympic atheletes from Alaska, like speed skater Apolo Ohno. So I was feeling pretty favorably inclined towards Alaska airlines early on in the flight. Then as we got near time to land, the head stewardess (actually, the only stewardess, all the rest were stewards) makes an announcement, saying that since we would arrive about 25 minutes late, it was going to be tight for passengers making a few connections. She informed all of us that there were 7 passengers on our flight who would be really pressed to make their connections, so she said she was going to let those 7 off the flight first, and that everyone, including first class passengers, were going to have to just wait a second while those 7 made their way down the aisle unimpeded. I was sitting in the back, and a couple sitting behind me was one of these 7, so they really would have had no hope had they had to wait their turn to get off the plane. Well, guess what? It worked! When the plane landed and the fasten seat belt sign went off, everyone stayed seated while these 7 made a mad dash down the aisle. And then guess what happened? The rest of us gave the stewardess a round of applause.
Just showing that society really does not entirely suck.
OK, now to my story.
I flew Alaska Airlines from LA to Seattle. Alaska Airlines is what they call a full service carrier, instead of a discount carrier. Basically, this means there is still an inflight magazine. I was pleased with the magazine, not only because it had a piece on the history of museums which showcased four new museums, but also because it highlighted two of the airlines charities. They regularly help the Alaska Raptor Center, and they also sponsor Olympic atheletes from Alaska, like speed skater Apolo Ohno. So I was feeling pretty favorably inclined towards Alaska airlines early on in the flight. Then as we got near time to land, the head stewardess (actually, the only stewardess, all the rest were stewards) makes an announcement, saying that since we would arrive about 25 minutes late, it was going to be tight for passengers making a few connections. She informed all of us that there were 7 passengers on our flight who would be really pressed to make their connections, so she said she was going to let those 7 off the flight first, and that everyone, including first class passengers, were going to have to just wait a second while those 7 made their way down the aisle unimpeded. I was sitting in the back, and a couple sitting behind me was one of these 7, so they really would have had no hope had they had to wait their turn to get off the plane. Well, guess what? It worked! When the plane landed and the fasten seat belt sign went off, everyone stayed seated while these 7 made a mad dash down the aisle. And then guess what happened? The rest of us gave the stewardess a round of applause.
Just showing that society really does not entirely suck.
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