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Old Aug 21, 2019 | 9:44 am
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I flew on an MD80 on Monday, AA1222 DTW-DFW and sat in 5F. There was power, through cigarette lighter-style chargers (I haven't seen that since I was on a B767 GIG-MIA a few years ago), and I actually do keep an adapter in my backpack, just in case. No IFE, but I was able to hang my iPad from the seat in front and it probably had a better picture than IFE.

I can't remember when I had last been on one of these birds...I know I had at some point, but I don't think on AA. I think NW used to have some back in the day that I used between DTW and SEA or PHX.
Riding on it was making me think back to some aircraft I've been on that are no longer in service (that I know of), like the B727, DC9, DC10...

The F seat was pretty comfortable, very thick padding! But the a/c didn't seem to work very well. Ground temp in DTW was probably mid-80s and the aircraft was quite warm when we boarded and didn't really seem to cool off (not as much as I'd like at least) the whole flight. The in-flight service was ok...nothing to write home about, but not worth complaining about either.
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