As I sit here on the runway at the San Diego airport I contemplate the journey home. I have become spoiled with Internet access on all long trips as I switched all possible flights from American Airlines to Virgin America where every flight has Internet and power. But from San Diego to JFK, I would have had to connect through LA to get a flight on Virgin. So instead I crossed my fingers and hoped this American Airlines plane has internet. Sadly, it doesn’t but at least my seat has power.
As I glance ahead at the seat ahead of me, the ripped (destroyed is more appropriate – only pity keeps me from documenting it with a photo) seatback pocket seat makes me wonder about the maintenance of the entire plane and the overall American Airlines fleet.
Of course being in the airline business is tough – it seems to be very virtually impossible to make money. Amazingly it can cost more to part at the airport than it does to buy tickets these days.
If there is a bright side to flying American Airlines it is the celebrity watching. I hear Warren Beatty is on our flight and Gloria Estefan was on my flight out of Miami last week. The celebs it seems don’t need access to internet in flight – I guess they just want to get away from it all in the air. Speaking of which, I will get some much needed analysis and writing done when we take off… Maybe it isn’t so bad to not have Internet on every flight.
National Cabling Contractor
October 9, 2009 at 5:59 pmHey… it isn’t so bad to take a little break every now and then and “disconnect” :)…. However I look forward to reading your thoughts on CTIA San Diego this year…
Spiele
October 12, 2009 at 2:22 amYeah..If I got celebrity on a plane It will be a good one to have as I can enjoy watching them.
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