I know the feeling!Not had in last month but sometimes they just hit so quickly, I don't find the meds I've been given successful at all.

Back on US soil, waiting for our MEM-ATL flight. We had a fabulous trip, but it was far too short. We'll definitely be going back to Amsterdam as we could have used several more days there to see everything.

Today's AMS-MEM flight was nice, but honestly, I found BusinessElite rather underwhelming. The food was OK, but not as good as CO's, and CO's presentation of it is a million times nicer than DL's. The whole galley cart in the aisle, pouring soup from a thermos in the aisle, serving a soup, appetizer, and salad all on a tray and pulling off the plastic wrap as it is placed on your tray table thing is rather unprofessional for international C. I don't even like seeing that stuff in domestic F, but for long-haul international premium service, it's just cheap and unprofessional. My impression of DL still remains that they try way too hard to be stylish and trendy and come off looking tacky and cheap instead (example — glossy menus that are way over-designed and go out of their way to promote Michelle Bernstein and provide long welcoming letters from DL and Michelle, yet look like something more appropriate for a Denny's than a nice restaurant). The flight was full in Y but only had 12 passengers in BusinessElite. Service from the purser was great, and the other flight attendant working with her up front was fine, although he got rather snippy with us when we asked for a Diet Coke as the pre-departure drink, and all they were serving was orange juice, champagne, water, or one kind of beer — not even coffee, until the purser changed her mind and decided to make some. Huh? This was 45 minutes before push, and it's a freaking international flight, in your premium class, and you can't open a damn soft drink? I just don't get it. Meal service was very slow, despite the small number of passengers, but after that, the purser made sure we always had drinks and was close at hand if we needed anything. She really was great, and we got the impression from talking with her that she mainly works that flight a couple of times a week.

DL has continued to irritate me with its horrible handling of codeshare itineraries post-merger. We had major difficulty checking in at ATL last week, and this morning it took the KLM agent in AMS about 20 minutes to get my boarding pass because DL had screwed up the reservation so badly with multiple schedule and flight number changes. She wasn't able to give us boarding passes for MEM-ATL, and it took the agent here at the MEM SkyClub about 15 minutes of work to get those boarding passes to print. This is the fourth itinerary I've had this year involving a mix of DL/NW flights, and every one of them has had this problem. I think I've now spent about two hours cumulative waiting for an agent to get a boarding pass because of this nonsense. It certainly just adds to my list of reasons to avoid giving DL any of my business unless I absolutely have no other option.

Anyway, it was a great trip. I'm ready to be home, and after an hour-long crappy flight on an ASA CR9, we should be there.

I did that flight prior to the merger when it was just good old NW! I really liked WBC on the A332. I agree that the food presentation was not as nice as CO's BF for sure. MEM was NW's "southern style" service, and I really liked it. I am afraid that MEM will be overwrought some day by DL and ATL, and that indeed will be a big bag of :rolleyes::rolleyes:. I used to lovingly refer to MEM as our (meaning NW's) Southern Hub!:-: Now .... not so much.:(

TV alert. Since we've had talk about the massive City Center project in LAS, it will be the project on Build it Bigger on the Science Channel at 9 PM EST tonight.

Your itinerary at least has you in CR9 F, correct?

Yes it is plenty of time. Just keep in mind that you want to get back to AMS in plenty of time to deal with passport control and security there. Security screening and a secondary immigration examination is done at the gate.

28 days until my NW A332 (out of DTW).

IMHO, you'll enjoy it. It is probably not as nice as the lie flat on the 777s or the 764s, but it beats anything else in the DL BE equipped fleet IMHO.

The commercials on the Science Channel are wrong. City Center is on now.

Yes.

It's not a bad seat at all, and I certainly prefer it to what I've ridden in on DL's 767s up front. Those seats are pretty narrow. The IFE is fairly decent too; better than CO and UA's older systems with the multiple channels on a loop, but not as good as the newer AVOD systems. CO's AVOD on the 777 especially, and the 752 to a certain extent, still has a better selection.

To me the food presentation is just unpolished. How much harder is it to not haul a full galley cart down the aisle and start ripping off foil and plastic wrap as you're putting the dishes on the passenger's table? But then, NW and DL have served in domestic F this way for years, and CO doesn't even do it there. To me it's just a coach service style of presentation, with a premium class seat of dishes.

I could totally do without the muzak being blasted into this SkyClub right now.

I've flown the A332 DTW-AMS last year - the big thing this trip is that the return AMS-ATL A332 happens to be on KL.

I've finally willed myself to drink some sips of water.