Saturday, February 10, 2007

David's Travel Tips

Here's the travel tip gleaned from this weeks business trip to San Antonio:

Never pick a seat in the tenth row on 737's configured by US Air/America West. The tenth row is the row right before the exit row. As if the stupid exit row alpha male businessmen didn't already have enough fucking room, the row in front of them is not allowed to recline. I flew for 5 hours with out being able to recline my seat in the least. I was a touch sore when I arrived.

I wish someone would start an airline for tall people. I sat next to qwang lee choo on one leg who was so tiny it was as if she were in first class. Meanwhile right next seat was me, barely able to fit my legs in the seat without goosing the guy in front of me. If I try and lean my head back, I'm so far from the head rest I can almost get a 90 degree angle in my neck. It sucks. God I hope I come into enough cash to be able to fly first class soon.

3 comments:

Greg said...

This is why I fly Southwest as much as possible. Oddly, the former "cattle-car" airline now has the most legroom of any airline in the US. They have not changed their aircraft configuration in 30 years. On the other hand, every other airline has crammed more and more seats into an already overcrowded plane.

The last time I flew United I literally could not sit facing forward in my seat, because if I did, my knees touched the seat in front of me.

That's why I love Amtrak. Big ass seats. Sometimes a private room.

Sure, it takes 50 times as long, but it is damn comfortable.

Ivan Grozny said...

"Sure, it takes 50 times as long, but it is damn comfortable."

And you can drink much more liberally.

Ivan Grozny said...

"Never pick a seat in the tenth row on 737's configured by US Air/America West. "


You need to see this site before you travel:
http://seatguru.com/