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Old Aug 21, 2015 | 5:25 am
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Originally Posted by irishguy28
Probably. With no seatback screens, food that was unrecognisable as such, "wine" that tasted more like paraffin, served from a Tetra-Pak, a crew who fussed more over the doe-eyed, brand new FA (who kept telling anyone in earshot that she had never been outside of the US before) than any of the customers [her bright-eyed enthusiasm and excitement was in such contrast to the rest of the experience!], an elderly gent being man-handled off the plane - by one of the passengers, no less, rather than the crew [he may have been a Federal Agent...he was met by some uniformed military on arrival at AMS and whisked away in a very deferential manner] - in an overly aggressive manner for no reason that I could ascertain (I was in the front row of economy, he was involved in a dispute in business class, regarding seat assignments), and a door which a team of 10 engineers could not close, meaning that we all had to be offloaded after sitting on the tarmac for almost 3 hours waiting to depart???

Trust me, it was the worst flight of my life. Even before we took off!
Ha, you win on that one, and they are still running, I saw an AA 757 at AMS the other day which perplexed me until I worked out it was the former US flight.
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