I have another one to add to the Penalty Box list:

It is in the Milage Run forum, that dang thread that advertises a WickedlyLow Business Class Fare from some crappy place in Canada to Cyprus. ARRRRGH! It has a couplke hundred thousand views, but I hate the word wicked...remends me of a play I attended and a date I took to it...all by the same name.

Agreed - the title of that thread is annoying.

You would never survive life in Boston. Wicked cool :p

No. SXM service is done out of CDG (rather than ORY)...on an A340-300, I believe. The only AF aircraft with the new Alize (I think) are the 777-300s based from ORY.

So, ALCO, how did I-10 treat you this weekend? I did spare a fleeting thought for your plight as I sipped my Pimm's Cup (with all the salady bits even) yesterday afternoon in my garden...

Not horrendous, but not great either. Rained most of the way both going and coming. However, I got :-:upgraded:-: to a Lincoln Towncar. I was feeling quite geriatric, but was quite confident that I could have run over a full-grown Brahma Bull without even spilling a drop of Ensure :p

The Hilton Lafayette was also better than I had expected. Thank god that town has at least one full-service hotel.

Noooooo. They only offer it on the CIO routes (Carribean/Indian Ocean). You end up with J, Y+ and Y-. Though I can't actually book the F seats using CO miles, I'd like to think that I have a chance at the J ones, and they have so few on the planes that I'm sure they are much harder to get to.

They actually cram 472 people on to the 773, versus 310 on their NTC 773. That's crazy. They do 3-4-3 in the back instead of 3-3-3.

:eek::eek::eek:

Wow! UA puts 347 in their 744's and NW only puts in 403 on their 744's.

Do we have any "best seats on the saab" floating around these parts?
 

My friends, it appears the bell doth toll for me. This weekend I've been armtwisted into helping Mom drive up to CO (or at least to the Abilene area) with the horses.

Typically I don't mind this but the catch is that we recently had a new foal and this will be her first long trailer trip...meaning someone will have to ride with her in the trailer...the trailer without AC...where the horses #$@ and #$$% all over the place. Anyways I don't mind helping out but I do have to back in IAH for Monday class which means I'm going to be taking my first Colgan Air flight on Sunday :eek:

The equipment is a Saab 340 and the scheduled flight time is 1.8 hours...and I am not looking forward to it. But to try and make the best of it, I'm wondering if anyone here has seen any Saab seats threads?

The first seat on the A side is bearable. However, the door will intrude slighly into your leg-space, forcing you to keep your legs at a slight angle.

Watchuwant?!, some sympathy ;)

If it makes you feel any better, I've got a roundtrip coming up on the Saabs, IAH-MLU-IAH :(

J.Edward - Can't go another 160 miles and fly the vast CRJ/ERJ from LBB?

Well at least those Saabs are made by, er Saab. Not GM. Or Subaru. ;)

You're helping your mom drive up to Continental with the horses? :confused: ;)

True that, rkkwan (btw, I just responed to another thread of yours!)

Anyways, oh how I wish I could! But the issues is the damn horses.

Mom, who's a horse nut, insists we only go ~3 hours each day and only in the early morning as to avoid the heat. :(

The good news is that we've got this "James Bond-ed" horse trailer/living area thing that has high speed internet, sat. TV, AC, etc. which helps cut down the human stress...but not necessarily the equine stress.

No, not that CO, the other one! :p

I've been involved in shipping horses overseas by air (for one of my former employers) - it's neither a simple nor inexpensive proposition.