It is very nice.
Good thing too, ’cause the old one kinda sucked.
Our flight from ORD to DEN was cancelled. They let us know we could fly tomorrow on a ORD-LAX-OAK flight and get in either on Tuesday night or Wednesday morning or something. I probably could have made my OAK-YYZ flight… But we got lucky - on flight 11 originally from JFK to SFO somebody’s leg exploded, clots or something; apparently there was blood everywhere so they had to land. Then they couldn’t clean all the blood up so they had to find another airplane. For reasons we don’t understand this plane is now going to DEN. Instead of arriving in SFO at 2:30 they’ll be getting in around midnight.
Our 747 relected in the glass of the gates at FRA.
It looked a lot cooler in real life…. 747s are big….
After a lovely visit to Italy, Austria, and Germany. The upstairs of a 747 feels like a private plane but with more comfortable toilets, a bigger kitchen, and a bunch of boring old men (as a rule).
Not a bad club, stylish and quiet but the liquor selection isn’t very good (limited, mostly well-drinks) though it is free and there’s food.
There is good free wifi with no hassle (not even a log-in screen, so you can use it with a skype phone).
The wine is called pimple.
The Maple Leaf Club at the Montreal airport (international side) is small, but as elegant and well kept up as the international and domestic clubs at YYZ. Maple Leaf clubs always have soup and salad (after 4:30), which is generally quite good, and always seem to have a good selection of cookies and other treats.
They also have decent free alcohol including good beer (draft Guinness) and a good selection of liquor. My preference is for the Crown Royal. The bathrooms are clean (small at YUL). There’s free “DataValet” wifi, but I couldn’t get an IP address at YUL (generally it works, but the service isn’t particularly snappy).
Star Aliance Gold gets you in, but you can also buy access with your ticket for small extra fee - something like $15, which is a lot cheaper than buying a few drinks at an airport bar. Plus free soup! Can’t go wrong with free soup.
I took an Air Canada flight from Toronto/YYZ to Montreal/YUL on Friday. This is basically a regional flight - LA to SF, 54 minutes… but it was a two class 777, completely full. The plane was brand new and very nice inside. It had color-varying LED lighting inside. I noticed it had changed blue mid-flight, and then it cycled to a few other colors as we landed. Very festive.
The Eat Vulva meme continues at the SFO RCC.
Inexplicably, flight 505 was moved from one empty gate in Denver to another empty gate a little further down.
And the herd said “Moo.”
SAME SEATS! Different plane. That was a new one: we got aboot 100 meters down the runway and slammed on the breaks. The check engine light had come on. So, back to the gate, new plane, same seats…. Try, try again.
