This is from Delta 1441. Salt Lake City to Los Angeles. We are about a half hour out of SLC. Another hour to go. Five bucks for the internet access. Ain't nothing free anymore. Kind of cool!
Riding an Airbus A320. First time on one. So far not bad. Handles the bumps well and I am aft of the wing. It is a military fare, basically. Like the old days, riding the back of the bus. But in civvies instead of Dress Blues or Dress Whites.
Got to do some shopping with The Missus after getting over the hill to the Antelope Valley. Christmas Shopping for The Grand Daughters, ya know!
Next adventure will be Red Flag at Nellis in late January and early February. Gonna hook up with Jeff and maybe do some live blogging from the flight line. That is if the Air Force is cool with it. The camera is definitely going.
And after Captain Sully's amazing ditching of US Airways 1549 and the results so far........
I am gonna have to take back all those rather disparaging remarks about Airbus's products. This is a nice riding jet.
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"But in civvies instead of Dress Blues or Dress Whites."
I can remember when it was dress blues and no option, no matter what the duty station.
It is a military fare, basically. Like the old days, riding the back of the bus. But in civvies instead of Dress Blues or Dress Whites.
I nearly ALWAYS got upgraded to First or Bid'niz class back in those days. Seriously. I can remember coming back from Turkey on Pan Am and flying in First as a young SSgt... they had to pour me off the plane. A couple o' times, as we stopped in Frankfurt to re-fuel before continuing on to JFK.
Good times.
Pan Am LAX to NRT(Narita) in the fall of 1985, in whites. Didn't pay for any beer on that one.
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