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Departing home at 4:30am means that Kristie needs to wake up at 3:00am in order to get all of those ‘girlie’ things done and I’ll usually drag out of bed about 4:00am.
The flight to Atlanta was uneventful. Long, boring, rode in the back by the engine. Considering that we were working off of not much sleep it was actually a good opportunity to get some shut eye before arriving in Georgia.
We landed about 1pm and our flight to Dusseldorf depart until 4:15pm.
The loads are high, oversold in coach with some seats available in business elite. Looking at the standby list, there are a bevvy of buddy passes and a few people senior to me so we stand a great chance at flying in the Business Elite cabin.
We’re celebrating both vacation and our anniversary so we decided after a little “I don’t care, what do YOU want to do?” and decided to have a beer and snack.
This sounds bigoted, but nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing happens in Atlanta in an orderly fashion.
The restaurant was moderately busy, but 15 minutes for a beverage and another 45 minutes for our food to arrive, cold, was ridiculous. Sadly, even for a full service restaurant, I still had to go to the bar to get my own water, go into the area near the kitchen for my own silverware and had to track down my own napkins.
Our waitress even “thanked me”.
I just want to eat my cold chicken sandwich and enjoy my lukewarm, skunked beer.
A beer, a glass of wine and two chicken sandwiches. $38 for a total of almost 90 minutes wasted. Avoid “Images” restaurant in the E-Concourse like the plague.
We used a higher priority pass so e were given two seats in business elite.
Basically, an international business elite flight is like this. You have almost fully-flat seats which are electronically controlled, a personal television monitor, a case with toothpaste, a toothbrush, basic toiletry items, a pen and paper, ‘cabin socks’ (basically, you can put these on over your bare feet or socks after you take off your shoes, an eye patch (whatever they’re called) and various other items.
You’re served either orange juice, champagne, or a mimosa (a combination of the two). In flight, you’re served warmed mixed nuts and another cocktail service, follwed by an appetizer (prawns, blackened chicken and ‘other’). After that, you’re served the main course which you’ve chosen from the menu during boarding.
Kristie and I both chose the duck, but she had the salad and I chose the roasted vegetable soup.
After the dinner course, they serve a cheese course and a made to order ice cream sundae.
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