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Nov 4, 99, 10:23 am
Don't know if we're the first ones here, but here's a brief 'starter' report...
PDX-SLC-HNL 3 Nov.
6:00am flight to SLC on 757 (I've taken this flight about 14-15 times in tne last year), it continues on to BOS. Normally this flight is packed on Mon & Tues, but today it was a light load. FC was not even full and only 1 non-rev that I could see on the manifest, with about 70% in back. We were in 3A&B.
On time departure, smooth flight, beautiful morning flying over the mountains. Service was great, full breakfast (choice of frittata or fruit/cereal) on this 1:20 flight. Arrived 5 minutes early & we headed to the CRC to kill almost 3 hours. Seems crazy to go East to catch a flight back to HNL, but's that's the only way we could make the schedule work.
Flight for HNL on a L1011-500, departed at 11:45am. Load was 24 FC & 144 in back on this leg to LAX, then 24 FC & 217 in back on LAX-HNL leg. Flight time from LAX-HNL was 5:18…for the first 1˝ hrs. we had a steady 25-35 mph tail wind, which I thought was unusual since we were flying WSW (maybe some of you aeronautical types understand that part). Cruise at 33K ft. at about 550 mph ground speed. Flight was excellent, service and food was terrific. The FA crew were seasoned veterans who fly this flight regularly (it makes one more stop in Maui after HNL). We were in seats 2C&D. Arrived at 6:00pm (on time), picked up a car & checked into the Hilton Hawaiian Village.
We're hoping to meet TropicalFlyer for dinner tonight, then go to the airport to meet the PIP Express when it arrives. We will have cameras at the ready position…
More to follow, I'm sure….LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!!
PDX-SLC-HNL 3 Nov.
6:00am flight to SLC on 757 (I've taken this flight about 14-15 times in tne last year), it continues on to BOS. Normally this flight is packed on Mon & Tues, but today it was a light load. FC was not even full and only 1 non-rev that I could see on the manifest, with about 70% in back. We were in 3A&B.
On time departure, smooth flight, beautiful morning flying over the mountains. Service was great, full breakfast (choice of frittata or fruit/cereal) on this 1:20 flight. Arrived 5 minutes early & we headed to the CRC to kill almost 3 hours. Seems crazy to go East to catch a flight back to HNL, but's that's the only way we could make the schedule work.
Flight for HNL on a L1011-500, departed at 11:45am. Load was 24 FC & 144 in back on this leg to LAX, then 24 FC & 217 in back on LAX-HNL leg. Flight time from LAX-HNL was 5:18…for the first 1˝ hrs. we had a steady 25-35 mph tail wind, which I thought was unusual since we were flying WSW (maybe some of you aeronautical types understand that part). Cruise at 33K ft. at about 550 mph ground speed. Flight was excellent, service and food was terrific. The FA crew were seasoned veterans who fly this flight regularly (it makes one more stop in Maui after HNL). We were in seats 2C&D. Arrived at 6:00pm (on time), picked up a car & checked into the Hilton Hawaiian Village.
We're hoping to meet TropicalFlyer for dinner tonight, then go to the airport to meet the PIP Express when it arrives. We will have cameras at the ready position…
More to follow, I'm sure….LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!!