24 solid hours in the air later, a whole boatload of plane related delays thrown in (mostly centred on the fact that chicago isn't the best place to transfer through this time of year), and I'm safely in the bangkok airport. i actually spent most of my time waiting in airports in pearson, my first flight took off over 2 hours late, so once i was on that first plane i basically arrived at the next airport, walked to the new gate and boarded immediately, which was kind of nice if risky. oh, and surprisingly my checked bag made it all the way too, so double points for that achievement on the part of united.
the promised food report:
i was prepared for the worst, having been told numerous horror stories about the general inedibleness of the food on united airlines, and i'm happy to report it wasn't inedible, merely mediocre.
that's the only picture i have since really the whole experience spending 24 hours in cattle class generally made me delirious after hour 7 or 8, but i can tell you this. the "salad" they served likely had 50 grams of cheese and 8 grams of iceberg lettuce (with a generous helping of thousand islands dressing, another 50g of fat right there), the mystery meat wasn't any worse than what i've been fed on aircanada, but the bun was stale. i did manage to eat most of it though, so i'll count that as a victory for united's ongoing battle against complete hopelessness.
as for the rest of the food i was served, as i mentioned i basically started to get delirious and couldn't have really gotten my camera out of the overhead if i had wanted too. the food between japan and bangkok was ok but they didn't serve me sashimi or anything, so nothing special.
i'm still in the bangkok airport, it's 3:15am and i'm waiting for a 6:15 take off for koh samui, then it's just a hop, skip and a boat ride and i'll be in koh tao and ready to stop moving about quite so much for a little while.
merry christmas from bangkok
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Merry Christmas from Sackville, NB!
On the matter of airline food buns, I have yet to have one that's not stale in cattle class. You'd think they let the buns sit out on the wings during the flight to get them good and dry.
The thoroughness and consistency of economy fare bun staleness is fascinating, really.
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