Clearly, if you are travelling business class it is a toss up. In economy, the break in a 13/14 hour flight is quite welcome, particularly when the alternative is to sit uninterrupted in a BA seat designed for people with no legs.
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American airlines mystify me. Here is a nation that prides itself on customer service, comfort and insincere sliminess, but is apparently incapable of running an airline that doesn't make you feel like you're being transported to a death camp and giving you the impression that the cabin crew fiercely resent your presence on their aeroplane. It's bizarre.
I suppose you have a point. It is quite rare for BA to beat up their own customers, although their economy seat is not a million miles away from a slow form of torture.
I do accept their Premium Economy and Business class is quite good. THeir economy really is utterly awful though, with some of their fleet providing the worst legroom of all major airlines.
I also dislike blocks of 3 seats. nobody travels in a 3.
You can't win seat wise. if you sit by the window going to the pisser is a pain. sit in the aisle someone will wake you up wanting to go to the toilet or will knock into you as they walk past.
I dislike people on planes who sort of dither around standing about. or dash to the bogs before landing.
I often won't use the toilet at all.
The Wonders of the Orient? The plains of the Serengeti? Rainforest, coral reefs, the snow-capped Himalayas? The organutan, the jaguar, the ostrich? Snacking in a Bangkok night market, watching the Arsenal game in a bar in Kigali, dancing in a New Delhi nightclub? Watching the sun set over the Andaman sea? Afternoon tea at Raffles, a stengah at the E&O, dinner at the Forodhani Gardens?
If I couldn't travel my soul would turn to dust :-(
I did, back in the day. I pushed out ace bangra moves until 4 a.m. in a club in Delhi one night until, noticing that the atmosphere had changed somewhat at the alcohol took proper hold, I said to the massive Sikh next to me, "I shouldn't really be here, should I? I'm going to get stabbed, aren't I/ I should leave, shouldn't I?" And he replied with utmost gravity, "Very wise, sir."
It only really bothers me when I am doing it all the time. I do hate it, but its something you just have to endure. Give me an aisle seat and leave the **** alone and I can cope. When people start ****ing with me they are just asking for trouble, particularly if I am into 6 or 7 hours without a fag.