Sunday, September 26, 2010

I f*cking hate flying

I loved flying. All the excitement of the journey. The luxury of airports. The tempting of duty free shopping. Service on board.

Now I hate flying thanks to Delta. Unfortunately none of the airlines in the US are different. For a 4.5hrs long flight you can drink once, but no you cannot have the whole can of soda. To eat you can choose between cookies (2 pieces so it is in plural), peanuts (approx 15 pieces) and pretzels (not more then 10 in the package). Even though I almost reached Medallion level, I cannot choose my seat. Most of the time they are assigned at the gate. If I can choose myself I have the option of choosing from exactly one middle seat.

This time on my left there was an old guy, middle size overweight, on my right an fat Asian guy literally flown over the armrest. None of them had problems not fitting in their own seats, so to survive I lent forward playing and watching movies on my PSP the whole time, so I didn't have to cozy up with them. Brr...

So now I totally support RyanAir's solution of charging obese people to buy an extra seat. And in the US this would happen to every other passenger. In the future when they furnishing an airplane they should have a section for overweight people. New airplanes will be a topic of the near future. I've never seen an ashtray on an airplane before... For how long is smoking banned on board again? ;)

Thank you Delta.

P.S.: Ticket price was $1200...

Update: I forgot to mention, that the Asian guy smelled like onions, and during landing he farted a couple of times to make sure I never forget this flight

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