An aircraft worth riding a bus to and standing out in the cold wind for, the elusive Fokker-70! My second in a row new aircraft! Exclamation marks barely convey my excitement!
Not my favorite part of European Business Class, but at least the seat next to me was empty. In fact, of the two rows in Business there were only four total people were in attendance today (and that includes your humble narrator). During boarding there was even a moment every Flyertalker dreams about. A late boarding passenger tried to stash his bag above row 2 and the flight attendant, God bless her, came out and informed him they were for Business Class passengers only and the bag had to go in the back with him. She even stood her ground when he argued, good on her.
Meal time!
Not bad for a one hour flight, right? The menu (a nice touch) declares that this is:
Salad
Crudites featuring celery, carrot, radishes, cauliflower and yellow bell pepper, served with honey mustard sauce
Sandwich
Please choose one of the following
Maize and pumpkin seed pastrami sandwich with the Better Life Hallmark
or
Raisin and nut bread with matured cheese
Dessert
Dark chocolate mousse with mint chocolate ganache
The flight attendant even kept trying to force more beer on me, but by this point I was so confused about where/when/who it/I was I had to decline. I ended up really enjoying KLM on both the long and the short haul flight and was already glad I'd spent the 100,000 miles. Oh and even gladder I didn't choose to fly IAD-JFK-PRG on DL which was offered.
