11/18/2013

November 18^th isn’t a particularly interesting day but I got to do it twice and I was flying the entire time! Well 26 hours of it. We had really bad weather leaving Sydney. It was the first time I was really afraid on an airplane. We had a couple drops that put my stomach in my throat and then went up pretty steeply to try to get above the storm. It finally evened out a few hours later. The plane food was fairly average, pasta, salad, etc.  United has actually changed several of there policies that make it much more customer friendly. There are now outlets on planes, they allow you to use small electronic devices throughout the flight(i.e you never have to turn off your phone) and they have free WiFi on the planes. I was also able to get into all of the united clubs for a change. So it was a surprisingly good 2 days of flying. Additionally I had an empty seat next to me for 3 of the 4 flights. BONUS!

So United did customer surveys earlier this year and realized that everyone hates them.  They have changed many of their policies and are actually much better now. Yay for me! I had an unexpected powerpoint under my seat, free WiFi and they didn’t make me turn off my phone, ever! Pretty sweet! But I wasted most of my 26-hour flight dreaming about how hot you are, so I didn’t get caught up on any of the work I meant to do. Oops.