Observations during flights

Yesterday I flew the whole day. I left the hotel at 8.20 in the morning and arrived to my sister’s house at 23. Add then a couple of hours of time difference an you get the picture. Luckily I had only around 25 min delay on the last flight (all others were on time) and got my luggage in the end. I was actually expecting to get some problems with it. I even packed for the risk to lose my luggage.

To travel during the day is in a lot of ways just a waste of time. You end up watching endless amounts of movies and/or TV shows. I couldn’t find any good movies yesterday, so I ended up seeing multiple episodes of House, Law and Order, CSI…. You name it.

But I amused myself by doing some observations:

·         The Continental staff from Costa Rica to Houston really needs to go on some service training. They just through the food at you, spoke fast and low so it was impossible to hear what they said and had a bored attitude. Again – Lufthansa is so much better.

·         Houston Airport was a pleasant surprise after all my struggles at Newark. In Houston I went through Immigration, Customs, and Security check plus walked to the lounge near my gate within 20 minutes. In Newark it took my more than one hour to pass immigration.

·         The Continental lounges in USA are far behind Lufthansa lounges. They served coffee (of course not coffee to the European standard), tea and water plus fruit and some cookies. Lufthansa offers food and drinks, where the food is enough to replace a meal and the drinks include everything from soda to sparkling wine and whisky. In the Continental lounge there was a bar, but you needed to pay.

·         I was served a cheese burger in Business Class. I don’t think any European airline would do that. It was a good burger, but I don’t think it works with burgers on a plane. People tend to need more space while eating that. ;-)

·         On one of the flights I had a good looking young man sitting next to me. He was drinking a lot of white wine while reading “Guns & Ammo”. For some reason I found that to be a funny combo.

Now I will need to do some shopping. Tomorrow I'm off to Las Vegas!!!