Friday, August 12, 2005

The best thing about first class on America West

I got to fly America West on six flight legs in a week, a round trip between Oakland and Flagstaff and a one way trip from Oakland to Milwaukee. Thanks to my friend Joanne, the Milwaukee trip was first class. It turns out that first class doesn't get there any sooner, and the best thing is the Gourmet Snack Mix from King Nut. (Though King Nut sounds like people who would be going to my my high school class reunion.)

Another nice thing about sitting at the front of the plane is that you can hear the other passengers cussing about how they are never going to fly America West because their last flight was late, as if the flight attendants on their connecting flight can do anything about it. The FAA publishes on-time data for the airlines, and their airlines print the on-time percentage for their flights on your itinerary, so it seems unreasonable to me for anybody to be upset when a flight that is usually late turns out to be late the day they take it.

Not only is everything on America West just late enough to be annoying, but it is the kind of airline that forgets to load the breadsticks. But red wine goes well with brownies. Still it's not quite as good as the chocolate chip cookies on Midwest Express to all passengers, not just those in first class. But I guess Midwest charges for wine now that they're Midwest Airlines. I still think Midwest Express sounds better.

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