Monday, January 09, 2006
The flight
I decided to make the flight as short as possible and use the same airline for every leg of the trip to ensure my luggage wouldn't get lost. Thinking that Lufthansa is a pretty good airline I figured they would be a good choice, especially considering that they had the shortest flights with only one stop over in Frankfurt. Unfortunately, it turned out that booking a Delta flight from NY to Frankfurt would cost nearly $1000 less and give me an extra hour in Frankfurt thus making total travel time slightly longer. In reality this turned out to be a good thing since Delta decided to upgrade me to first class but I'll get back to that soon.
Heeding the warning on my ticket to get to the airport 3 hours before my flight which was at 8:20pm I left my apartment at around 4:30 and was standing in line to check in my bag an hour later. The whole procedure took much less than I anticipated so by 6:00 I was inside and passed security. Thinking I was in for a crappy coach flight and bad airline food I went to the airport Chile's to get some dinner since I had so much time to kill before the flight. I wasn't terribly hungry yet but I decided a bacon cheeseburger and a pint of Guinness would probably be a good idea since I wasn't going to get any pork or beef products for the next month. However, when it came time to board the attendant at the door changed my seat assignment from 22G to 3G. It didn't immediately occur to me that 3G was all the way in the front of the plane and must be in a much better class until I saw the seats. There was about 5 feet of space between them and they were separated from their neighbors by an armrest at least a foot and a half wide. These were very comfortable seats, at least by airplane standards! The food in first class was excellent, they served a choice of fish or lamb for main course, soup or salad for appetizer, and fruit or ice cream for dessert. Despite the fact that I just had a giant burger and a plate of fries, not to mention the pint, I still ate everything they served and it was all quite good. There was of course free beer and wine, which I naturally sampled as well.
My neighbor in first class ended up being another guy who got bumped up from coach. He told me he was originally from Oregon but heading back to Latvia where he's been teaching English in a small village for the last couple of years. During the times I wasn't passed out cold in the luxury seat, which went really far back and even had a foot rest that came up to make it even more bed-like, we talked quite a bit and had a pretty interesting conversation about language study, the reasons he came out to Latvia, and I told him about living in New York which he found pretty strange being from a small town. All in all he was a pretty good single-serving friend, to use Fight Club terminology.
The flight was so comfortable and with an interesting person to talk to I barely noticed that it was over and we landed in Frankfurt. The layover was pretty unremarkable overall but I did manage to observe a couple of interesting things. Most signs at the airport were in both German and English so it was easy to get around and the airport staff seemed to all know English as well so it wasn't as intimidating as I thought it would be at first. It was also very strange to see people smoking indoors, especially at an airport.
After some stumbling around I located the Lufthansa boarding area and went to my gate. To my surprise the waiting area was closed off and people had to sit on the floor in the large hall outside. My wait was only about an hour before they started boarding so it wasn't bad but it was my first tipoff that the next leg of the trip wasn't going to be near as comfortable as the first one had been. Unfortunately, my suspicion was confirmed once I got to my seat. Even the first class seats I passed on the way to mine were not nearly as nice as the one in which I just spent the previous 8 hours. And the coach seats were a complete horror. They were narrow and the arm rest would not go all the way back causing it to dig uncomfortably into your shoulder if you decided to put it up. To add insult to injury the food tray would not drop all the way down unless you put up the armrest since the seat in front of you was so close that the tray would actually land on top of the armrest. I lucked out and the flight was not full so the seat next to me ended up being empty giving me some room to manuever. Had there been someone sitting next to me on this flight it would have easily turned into the worst flight I had ever taken. The seat ahead of me was so close that when I tried to put on my shoes I couldn't actually lean forward enough for my hands to reach my feet. Fortunately, there was nobody next to me as I mentioned so it was passably tolerable. The food was a big letdown as well, standard TV-dinner type arrangements of the most tasteless ingredients imaginable. The saving grace was that despite being in coach they served free beer, pretty decent German brand whose name I managed to forget, which I partook in liberally to dull the pain of the whole experience. After a very long 8.5 hours the flight was finally over and I landed in India, the first time I've been on foreign soil since I initially came to the U.S. in 1991.
I was a bit worried that I might have some issues getting through customs since I didn't know the address of the place where I would be staying and it seemed to be a required part of the form they made me fill out. Luckily, it turned out to not be an issue and after about an hour waiting in customs, goiong through more luggage screenings and waiting for my bag (which was the absolute last to come out) I headed for the door. I was again a little worried that I may not have anyone to meet me and take me to the corporate apartments but that fear was unfounded as well, there were actually 3 guys there to meet me and drive me to my new home for the next month. At this point it was after 2:00am Hyderabad time and I had been traveling for roughly 18 hours.
Heeding the warning on my ticket to get to the airport 3 hours before my flight which was at 8:20pm I left my apartment at around 4:30 and was standing in line to check in my bag an hour later. The whole procedure took much less than I anticipated so by 6:00 I was inside and passed security. Thinking I was in for a crappy coach flight and bad airline food I went to the airport Chile's to get some dinner since I had so much time to kill before the flight. I wasn't terribly hungry yet but I decided a bacon cheeseburger and a pint of Guinness would probably be a good idea since I wasn't going to get any pork or beef products for the next month. However, when it came time to board the attendant at the door changed my seat assignment from 22G to 3G. It didn't immediately occur to me that 3G was all the way in the front of the plane and must be in a much better class until I saw the seats. There was about 5 feet of space between them and they were separated from their neighbors by an armrest at least a foot and a half wide. These were very comfortable seats, at least by airplane standards! The food in first class was excellent, they served a choice of fish or lamb for main course, soup or salad for appetizer, and fruit or ice cream for dessert. Despite the fact that I just had a giant burger and a plate of fries, not to mention the pint, I still ate everything they served and it was all quite good. There was of course free beer and wine, which I naturally sampled as well.
My neighbor in first class ended up being another guy who got bumped up from coach. He told me he was originally from Oregon but heading back to Latvia where he's been teaching English in a small village for the last couple of years. During the times I wasn't passed out cold in the luxury seat, which went really far back and even had a foot rest that came up to make it even more bed-like, we talked quite a bit and had a pretty interesting conversation about language study, the reasons he came out to Latvia, and I told him about living in New York which he found pretty strange being from a small town. All in all he was a pretty good single-serving friend, to use Fight Club terminology.
The flight was so comfortable and with an interesting person to talk to I barely noticed that it was over and we landed in Frankfurt. The layover was pretty unremarkable overall but I did manage to observe a couple of interesting things. Most signs at the airport were in both German and English so it was easy to get around and the airport staff seemed to all know English as well so it wasn't as intimidating as I thought it would be at first. It was also very strange to see people smoking indoors, especially at an airport.
After some stumbling around I located the Lufthansa boarding area and went to my gate. To my surprise the waiting area was closed off and people had to sit on the floor in the large hall outside. My wait was only about an hour before they started boarding so it wasn't bad but it was my first tipoff that the next leg of the trip wasn't going to be near as comfortable as the first one had been. Unfortunately, my suspicion was confirmed once I got to my seat. Even the first class seats I passed on the way to mine were not nearly as nice as the one in which I just spent the previous 8 hours. And the coach seats were a complete horror. They were narrow and the arm rest would not go all the way back causing it to dig uncomfortably into your shoulder if you decided to put it up. To add insult to injury the food tray would not drop all the way down unless you put up the armrest since the seat in front of you was so close that the tray would actually land on top of the armrest. I lucked out and the flight was not full so the seat next to me ended up being empty giving me some room to manuever. Had there been someone sitting next to me on this flight it would have easily turned into the worst flight I had ever taken. The seat ahead of me was so close that when I tried to put on my shoes I couldn't actually lean forward enough for my hands to reach my feet. Fortunately, there was nobody next to me as I mentioned so it was passably tolerable. The food was a big letdown as well, standard TV-dinner type arrangements of the most tasteless ingredients imaginable. The saving grace was that despite being in coach they served free beer, pretty decent German brand whose name I managed to forget, which I partook in liberally to dull the pain of the whole experience. After a very long 8.5 hours the flight was finally over and I landed in India, the first time I've been on foreign soil since I initially came to the U.S. in 1991.
I was a bit worried that I might have some issues getting through customs since I didn't know the address of the place where I would be staying and it seemed to be a required part of the form they made me fill out. Luckily, it turned out to not be an issue and after about an hour waiting in customs, goiong through more luggage screenings and waiting for my bag (which was the absolute last to come out) I headed for the door. I was again a little worried that I may not have anyone to meet me and take me to the corporate apartments but that fear was unfounded as well, there were actually 3 guys there to meet me and drive me to my new home for the next month. At this point it was after 2:00am Hyderabad time and I had been traveling for roughly 18 hours.
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