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Today’s question:
QUESTION: When was the last time you flew on a plane, and where did you go? Also – was it a good or bad experience?
Talk about it….
Last August…Colorado and Nebraska.
First time, 1991 Oakland Hills fire, company trip to learn another programing language. Second time, one way to pick up a low production numbers vehicle in Kansas. Was such a pleasure in a full plane to sit on a broken seat cushion. Both were before, turn n cough security checks.
Wonderful feeling of wall to wall flesh inside an aluminum pressure vessel and if you’ve got a window seat, you can watch wing FLEX.
If GOD meant man to fly, he’d be buying the tickets.
1993. SFO to SeaTac and back. The skies were very friendly.
Thank you for flying United!
Antler, I see you caught my meaning because that’s exactly what the flight attendant said. 🙂
Maybe six years ago….. weeklong family meet-up at a cabin on Rio Piedra Plantation, a bob-white hunt club/gourmet dining resort on the Flint River out from Albany, Georgia airport. Annual tradition and always fantastic in every respect. Then we old timers started having walking problems, soooo…..
March 2021. Helped my mother escape from Kleptofornica.
The last time was to San Diego, and no, it was not very pleasant. I had a window seat, and a woman, a very large woman, sat next to me. She was about 350 lbs and had me pinned up against the window. I was grateful that the flight was less than an hour and a half.
@ Dawg………..back in 1993 I flew out of Memphis in a thunderstorm sitting next to the same lady, only she was crying and praying aloud while clutching her Rosary with her eyes shut…. all the way to Dallas/Ft. Worth.
Boy that was fun!
Very recently, to Sothern Mexico. The flights were fine, but my body did not take being folded in the same position so many hours the way it used to.
Flying used to be like getting on a bus. You bought your ticket and walk on to the airplane. Now it is long lines, crowded terminals, masks, cancellations, and frustration. If it is in the state I prefer to drive.
2018 to and from Las Vegas for a conference with my GF.
Flew out of Oakland and it was an easy flight both ways. Used Uber in LV.
April 2020, we flew to Colorado with 2 cats in their carry totes to bring to our daughter. For the most part it was better than I thought it would be to transport the cats. The hard part was had to have the totes go through the screening machine without the cats. Had to hold the cat(s) in my arms while that was done.
September 2021. Flew to Dallas and purchased a car at the Mecum Auction. It was a fantastic experience! 🙂
I love Flying! March 2021 Oakland to Oahu on Southwest, escaping California shutdowns by spending a week in tropical paradise. Best flight experience though is JetSuiteX out of Concord! If you haven’t flown with them, YOU HAVE TO! You’ll never wanna go back to commercial flights. We flew with them for our Disney trip a few years back and it was awesome!
Flew out of the country in October 2021. No issues. Love flying!
June 2019 to Vancouver, BC. Typical flight.
Flew to Las Vegas the end of February to see Luke Bryan in concert. It was sooooo freaking amazing that I am most likely going to go back in June and see him again. Flight was perfectly fine. Everyone was respectable and flight attendants were awesome. But anytime I have flown Southwest they have always been AMAZING!
…about 5-6 yrs ago… used to fly a lot… don’t miss it a bit
4 yrs ago…to Spring Training in Scottsdale area. “Good experience” is relative these days. Compared to flying in the 80s or 90s, it’s a fun-sucked, anxiety-inducing experience.
DE: have been wanting to try JetSuiteX…now that some normalcy has returned, will try it.
Only once about 50+ years ago. Perfect flight but will never do it again. Didn’t want to do it then and the family stuffed me with tranquilizers just to get me on that plane.
Oct 2020.
The flight was fine, even with the Covid restrictions.
I’ll fly again once I have somewhere I need to go.
I believe it was November 2019 to Dulles for a conference in National Harbor, Maryland. Nothing remarkable about the flight there or back, The conference was too long (always are), but the venue where it was held was decorated beautifully for Christmas. Only other recollection of the trip was I saw a Peep shop with a Peep decorated Volkswagen…thrilling, eh?
After a two-year break, I took my first long-haul flights in and out of SFO arriving back 10 days ago. Flew in first class with a Polaris cabin to stay segregated from other passengers (coach was packed tight). Wore my N95 mask the entire time. Within two days of arriving home I had a fever, then head cold and chest cold. Developed quickly into pneumonia….just got out of the hospital. Three tests negative for C-19 and 3x vaccinated (thankfully). This could have happened pre- or post-pandemic. Luck of the draw but 90 percent of the time when I get sick it is related to a flight. There is zero cleaning of the cabin when turning a plane around for the next flight. Germ havens.
Frequent Flyer~
Darn! Not a god way to end a get-away. Stay health.
December and January, both times to Kauai. Alaska Airlines both ways in December, Alaska to Kauai in January, returned on Southwest because Alaska cancelled the non-stop return flight (and gave us a full refund, not a credit). I used to fly a lot on business before I semi-retired. I’ve flown hundreds of times and am fine doing so. I’m not stressed out because as an aerospace engineer I understand airplanes. Before I semi-retired I was flying twice a week most weeks. Some of them were overnight trips to Baltimore, many overnight trips to Denver.
One of the worst flights was SFO to Amsterdam on a full KLM 747 four years ago. My wife and I have long legs and the people in front of us immediately leaned their seats back and kept them that way the whole flight. The flight attendants had to argue with them to lean forward during the meal service so we could eat. However, we endured and then spent two glorious weeks on a cruise to Norway, Scotland and England. The return flight on a United B-777 was great though.
SFO to SAIGON … Gooooood morning Vietnammmmmmmmm … Adios San Fransickos … #Newscum
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Flew three times last year, and have at least two trips planned for this year. I used to love flying but hate it now. Rude passengers, rude staff, long security lines, too many rules, and the DAMN MASKS are the worst of all.
End of Feb, It was fine except for all the people and the masks.
Last summer. Flew to the east coast for a family vacation. No problems with the flights. Masks were only a minor inconvenience. Highly recommend getting TSA pre-check. It’s worth the money.
TSA pre-check is definitely worth it.
2019, before the scandemic.
Took my daughter back to the Scottish Borders to our ancestors’ village.
fly all the time HNL-SFO-ORD-ATL-LAS
never on, but many times in
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