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Old Oct 28, 1999 | 2:22 am
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johna
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Don't be so jealous of those corporate jets! I'm based in SF, and one time a client in Tulsa happened to have its jet here the afternoon I had to fly to Tulsa for a meeting. So they arranged for me to fly with them.

While the space was somewhere between domestic coach and first class (the good news), there was no food (this on a 3-hour flight leaving at 5:00pm), and if I'd had to use the bathroom I don't think there was even enough room to remain standing. But worst of all was the temperature: the air was sultry warm, but the floor and walls were freezing cold. There was no way to maintain an equilibrium.

On the whole, I was glad that my return was commercial.

I'll grant that corporate CEO's probably have more plush jets than this one (but this one generally was used by my client's CEO.

And on the plus side: takeoff was probably the steepest I've ever seen - the g-force made me feel like I was on the space shuttle!
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