Anybody flown with Delta? Any good?

[Pat Vegas]

what sort of standard we are talking?

I've flown United and American Airlines. Preferred United over American.

[Classic Jorge]

Not as bad as Southwest, who actually kick people off for being fat, mind

[Pat Vegas]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I can only speak of Business Class, naturally. What Americans call Business Class, we would call Easyjet. :puke:

I'm flying EvaAir to Bangkok in a couple of weeks. Their Royal Laurel class is a First experience at a Business price. wd wiley Taiwanese.

[Herbette Chapman - aged 15]

you do, he'll start tediously droning on about how he landed a Delta DC10 in 90 knot cross winds while some stewardess was noshing his bellend etc etc

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

The 1011 really was a far superior aeroplane to the DC10, don't you think? It's such a shame that the Lockheed bribery scandal, and MacDonald-Douglas' far superior marketing department, caused it to fail.

It had a lift to a downstairs galley in first class :cloud9:

[Berni]

Flying with an American airline is much like being on a bus for 10 hours or so.

[Snin]

bars, no longer talking about exercising and losing weight.....are you sure your Dutch not Belgian? or is it a bad reaction to giving up the marching pow ? :rubchin: :-)

[Monty91]

[Herbette Chapman - aged 15]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I got bang on it for three weeks over christmas. By the time I ran out I was quite relieved.

[Snin]

seat ..as no one had any room! my face was literally pushed against the back ofseat in front..avoid imo

[Snin]

[Herbette Chapman - aged 15]

centered little *******.

[Rich]

And they belched out fumes all over the place.

I did work experience at Hurn and this is what I was told then. I got to run her engines up to full throttle for some testing and sign off, though :cloud9:

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

But other than that, yes, you are correct in all respects.

The 1011 was the fastest thing out there, you know. They cruised happily at 0.87! Mind you, the earlier generation of airliners, before the oil crisis, had proper design cruise speeds; the 727 at 0.92 a the VC10 at 0.94, I believe!

[Snin]

plus until i told her to stop let her little fat roll of dough puke faced ****e play his cheap fake ipad game with volume on..cnuts

[Classic Jorge]

[Jake]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Rich]

mean the Tristar.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I said 1011, so obviously I'm talking about the Tritanic!

For f**k's sake.

[Berni]

make work in the United States.

[Rich]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Just, 'Point eight two'. Like that. Cool as a polar bear's arse.

[Herbette Chapman - aged 15]

that the flying times where not markedly faster back then - or were they?

[Berni]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

The pressurisation system, in particular, was deemed a right pain in the arse to manage.

[Rich]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

But yes, 700 odd mph is perfectly feasible. Most flying times were faster, yes, particularly when you take into account time consuming detours for noise abatement and arrival delays at busy airports these days.

Most commercial airliners now cruise at between 0.78 and 0.82 to save fuel.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

http://www.flying-zone.be/images/Histoire/Carferries/P17%20carvair%20%20baf%20%20G-ASDC.jpg

[Classic Jorge]

[Herbette Chapman - aged 15]

[Pat Vegas]

[Rich]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I am a singular tiresome pompous old goat.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Rich]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Vibrated your fillings out.

[Rich]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Ashberto]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

http://airlinesalert.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Singapore-Airlines-First-Class-Suite.jpg

[Ashberto]

Though if the engines conk out you still fall out of the sky, of course. :DB10:

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

:-(

[Berni]

What's the soundproofing like?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

There are dirty great Do Not Disturb lights outside both doors, so I think Singapore Airlines are quite pragmatic about it.

Quite how it would work on Emirates, though...

No, they'd drag you out and stone you to death, wouldn't they? :-(

[Berni]

change the sheets?

I mean it's one thing sleeping in your own damp patch, but not in someone else's imo. :-(

[Berni]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Berni]

Indeed, I got one once that smelled like a turkish wrestler's jockstrap. :-(

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

They also give you cashmere pyjamas.

The Emirates A380 suites come with a shower, although you're only allowed 4 minutes water.