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Review: American Airlines Boeing 787-9 Business Class, Paris – Dallas

by Gary Leff

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Dec 17 2017

Ultimately I consider business class to be primarily about the seat, and that’s just where American shines. I prefer them over British Airways, Lufthansa, Delta (I haven’t yet flown the new Delta One suite headed mostly to Asia), KLM, and I prefer them of course over Air France’s angled A380s though not their reverse herringbone direct aisle access 777s.

They offer really good seats and functional internet. And my main meal really surprised me by how good it was. They’re also improving the bedding.

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Flight Attendant Spilled Burning Coffee on Woman, Rushed Her Topless to the Lavatory

by Gary Leff

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Dec 16 2017

Now a Southwest Airlines passenger says that on Monday morning’s Southwest Airlines flight WN268 from Phoenix to Albuquerque “she was woken by scorching hot coffee soaking through her heavy sweater and onto her skin.”

The passenger reports that a flight attendant “yanked off her sweater and rushed her to the bathroom.” The woman “was completely exposed” and the “front half of the plane could see [her] completely exposed” while she cried.

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Flight Attendants Shamed American to Clean Dirty Air Vents on Planes

by Gary Leff

Dec 15 2017

I frequently refer to the legacy US Airways fleet as a ‘basket of deplorables’. We’re four years into the merger and they never added seat power or extra legroom seats to most of the planes. The old tattered first class seats on A321s have gotten new seat covers, but they didn’t even clean the seats themselves from the scuff marks and pen drawings that have accumulated over the years.

That’s just what we can see. Here’s something I hadn’t considered: the air vents on those planes.

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