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Well, all appeared to be well the nite before but it all turned to shite the next morning! The plane had a cockpit console warning light failure that had to be fixed before it could take off; so we were 1 hour and 10 minutes late for departure...the scheduled push-back of 6 a.m. was delayed to after 7!!! To make matters worse, the problem occurred after the cabin doors had been closed so we were all forced to wait out the delay in the plane rather than the Royal Silk lounge.
In addition, the delayed takeoff almost caused me to miss my connecting flight in Narita! The NRT-SFO flight was boarding as my plane was landing necessitating a mad dash on my part through the NRT transfer passenger security screening to the departure gate. Of course this means I also had no time to relax and continue my snacking at the UA lounge at NRT!
But wait, that's not all, believe it or not it gets worse. As Lomotopo mentioned, sometimes they swap out the new config biz class plane for an older one and you guessed it, it happened to me on this flight! So instead of a 180 degree lye flat seat I'm confronted with something that looks like its been around for 25 years...something truly awful and that I thought didn't even exist anymore. The IFE screen was one of those ones that pops up from between the seats and has a screen size of about 4 inches...shite, my smartphone screen is bigger!
At least the plane from Tokyo was the anticipated new seating configuration and the upper deck was comfortable. I will have more about the experience in a trip report post I'm preparing for the travel sub-forum. Needless to say, I'm very unimpressed with the UA business class offering and in future, will stick to my normal practice of using only Asian carriers back to the USA. On this run, I could have taken the ANA flight for about $400 more and I'm sure been a lot more satisfied.
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In Topic: Pattaya Police Issue Euro 2012 Warnings To Bars & Restaurants
Yesterday, 04:59
Mobi, on 2012-05-26 18:02:46, said:
Excuse me for being a bit dim but can someone please explain to me how you plan to watch live 'on line'.
To my knowledge, nobody has succeeded in getting a reliable live TV stream in Pattaya.The internet speeds are simply not good enough.Even in Bangkok there are only certain areas that the internet speeds are sufficient to support live streaming.
And if you are thinking 3g will be sufficient, then think again - no way.
I have tried many times to watch live streams here and have always given up as even if the stream works for a while, it always starts to freeze and the quality drops and its just not worth the hassle. And my internet is supposedly 3 Mb.
I stand to be corrected....
Anyone???
To my knowledge, nobody has succeeded in getting a reliable live TV stream in Pattaya.The internet speeds are simply not good enough.Even in Bangkok there are only certain areas that the internet speeds are sufficient to support live streaming.
And if you are thinking 3g will be sufficient, then think again - no way.
I have tried many times to watch live streams here and have always given up as even if the stream works for a while, it always starts to freeze and the quality drops and its just not worth the hassle. And my internet is supposedly 3 Mb.
I stand to be corrected....
Anyone???
As for soccer...I'm American so couldn't give a hoot! (Did see a BBC news piece on some Ukrainian host fans giving the Nazi salute to their team and making a sport of beating up non-white fellow spectators in the stands...and they call this the "beautiful" game?!
In Topic: Bkk - Sfo Return Business For 85K...Anything I Should Know?
2012-05-28 19:33:05
All appears to be well, UA803 departed NRT at 1840 on its way to BKK; so my UA804 is a go at 0600 tomorrow morning
