Day1, Day 2, Potato, Potatoe, whatever. Hope this does it for you:
Day1, Day 2, Potato, Potatoe, whatever. Hope this does it for you:
Anyhow, I get to the Dubai Airport after midnight to discover there is no Air France ticket counter. Actually, there is no ANY AIRLINE OTHER THAN EMIRATES ticket counters. They only have one agency, DANATA, that you can purchase a ticket from at of course an additional 10 percent over your reservation price. Welcome to the BS known as Dubai. The Arabic woman at the counter did not take well to being told her agency means “nothing” in Spanish and I wish we were in Spain. Apparently Air France didn't charge my reservation to the card and I still had to pay for the ticket. “Never again Air France” I say to myself as I walk to the Business Class lounge for the first unregulated internet in 5 months. Okay, the $3500 one way ticket to Madrid was unheard of even for me. BUT THAT IS SOME ****ING A GREAT WINE they have in their lounge. Of course there is always the chance that a person starving would think a saltine is the best food in the world. After all, no wine or puttie in 4 months does tend to bend perception. Still, it was pretty good wine. Give the French their due. That was only their "stuff they serve in the airport!" Stupid Americans! Maybe they have a reason to act a little conceited.
The flight left on time in a plane without even video for the individual seats. Worst B-Class ticket ever… I wouldn't recommend any one burn their money in this matter. And before you all start ragging on me over the hundreds of starving African children I could have fed by flying in the back, it was the only seat available at the last second and I booked a refundable ticket that cost almost that much due to problems with traveling from Iraq. It's not real consistent with the whole "enemy activity" and dust storm thing.
I'll stick to Emirates or Air Brit in the future.
I've got the tickets in my back pocket in Paris to transfer planes and some slick MF'er manages to get my tickets out of my back pocket in the middle of the airport. First lesson learned...After getting a reprint in a ticket counter in the middle of the airport I was saved by the Business Class Q through customs and check in as I had a miserly 20 minutes to catch the next flight. No passport stamp for France though and that was kind of a drag. The flight to Madrid was uneventful and no, I don’t recommend Air France food. Even the B-Class stuff was so sucky I didn't eat most of it. Emirates really have the upper hand on any other airline I have flown. Their meals just somehow taste so much better than most airplane food. I wonder why?
Touching down in Madrid with a two weeker in Ibiza coming up brought an unexplainable feeling of Euphoria. I had just under an hour and a half to check in with customs, claim my bag, buy a ticket on Air Europa, and get to the Promised Land. I should have been feeling nervous anticipation but it was more like just a feeling of "everything’s going to be all right, chill baby!" I wish I had the literal skills to describe how it all felt but there is no way to describe just being there at the time. Since it was Paris and Spain lets just call it a certain “Jenna say Kay?”
Air Europa…now that was another let down… I decided to splurge and spend the extra $150 on business class. That one was my choice and a bad one. I will be writing a small check to the first genuine charitable contact for feeding some of the fly-kids in Africa that is IM’d to me as on this one I do feel a bit guilty. The seats are the same as in the back but with a few more inches of leg room and a plastic tray stuck in the middle seat. You get to look down your nose disapprovingly at anyone passing by once your on the plane but of course, no champagne, warm towel, or more than a scowl from the placing Air-Europa least-attractive-air-attendant-contest (not sure which one but at least runner up). What a sucker I am. Welcome to Europe...I believe the expression translated from Ye-Old-Latin is "let the buyer beware." Second hard lesson learned...don’t expect too much in Europe or you'll be surely disappointed. It aint Asia.
Well, enough of the airline report.
nuff said