Comments on: Bitch: Business Travel

By: syfr

syfr — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:31:06 +0000

I’ve always liked JetBlue, and I’ve flown them cross country. Of course, I am about 5′4″, which might make a big difference.

One option when the baby starts screaming and it is near enough to you and you are in the right sort of mood: make faces at it and jiggle your keys at it. If you’re lucky, the kid will be amused, and stop screaming.

There exists a timezone on very long international flights which is sort of a hazy grey where you’re not in any time zone at all.

Mulan is very good in Chinese.

Always carry a pair of clean underwear and deodorant in your carryon.

By: Antigone

Antigone — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:55:15 +0000

Lisa KS-

Sometimes, I wonder if the ancients had it right: we need to have a lot of gods. Pray to the computer gods that we won’t get the blue screen of death (or now just a shutdown). Pray to the airplane gods that there won’t be any problems with the flight, and the demi-deities of luggage that they won’t get lost.

It doesn’t do anything, but hey, you get to feel like you have some control for .05 seconds.

By: Lisa Kansas

Lisa Kansas — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:52:24 +0000

Heathrow is freaking mind-boggling. It’s like the Mall of America. It’s hard to believe it even has anything to do with planes.

I gotta admit that in all this travelling I have not ONCE, not one time had my luggage lost. Clearly instead of whining I oughta be on my knees thanking the Airplane God.

By: that one guy from the one place

that one guy from the one place — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:10:23 +0000

those “unspecified electrical problems” are often covering something else, like a problem they don’t want to tell you about because it sounds nastier than it is (anything with fuel or engine and the passengers tend to wig out a bit), or it may not even be mechanical. Oftentimes they need to delay for weather at the destination, or even weather somewhere ELSE that’s backing up traffic AT the destination. They don’t really like saying weather anymore because people have a tendency to hop on their iPhone and CHECK the weather at their destination, not realizing that because the entire country is on a minute to minute precise schedule, a thunderstorm that shuts down O’hare can screw up the entire eastern seaboard.

Also, I strongly recommend IcelandAir for any transatlantic flights.

By: Antigone

Antigone — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:59:52 +0000

A) Don’t ever, EVER fly JetBlue if you have any other option. Hell, take Northwest over JetBlue.

B) I think they’re supposed to tell you about the turbulence and stuff- that’s what Hubby says, at least.

By: Kyso Kisaen

Kyso Kisaen — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:31:49 +0000

My flights in and around Europe were pretty flawless, as far as flights can go. But my friend who went on the same trip on different planes was bumped from every flight he had. It had something to do with the magnificent glory that is Heathrow’s new terminal 5. It was so magnificent, he hardly minded at all that they canceled him off all his flights because you need a minimum two hour layover to properly experience the wonder. I read they lose 900 bags a day - he won that lottery too.