FlyingV,
You do us injustice! We think a lot about the drivers in the part of the world wherein I live!
In case it was missed on another board, I'd like to add my comments regarding my recent wonderful flight RUH-JED aboard one of those amazing new tripleseven things last week, and address it to the driver thereof!
It was on the JED-RUH last Saturday, I hope you will let The Board know how much the PAX love the 2-hour minimum check-in time for domestics (it's almost quicker to drive, but much more fun in one of those new triplesevens!)
And your handling of the aircraft was amazing - how anyone can get it to do so many of those exciting bumps in the smooth air over the peninsula just beats me!
Although it was getting dark as we finally descended towards JED A/P (I know it shouldn't have been, but maybe the 2-hour delay, us stuck in the 777, had something to do with it) that new "up front camera" was a lovely way to observe the lights of the city - what spoilsport turned it off as we were getting to the really interesting bit of the flight; the approach!
What you may not realise is that PAX can turn it on again, and those pretty red lamps at the beginning of the runway looked really good for most of the approach. Strange, but they turned all completely white when you increased the power so much at one time, then all red again shortly after, as we were landing - are they like "disco lights" and respond to the noise of the approaching engines?
The landings were impressive too, as I'm sure you have to be really good to land six times, alternately on each side of where the wheels are. But it really was a waste of breath though when your conductress asked everyone to stay in their seats until the engine was stopped, as most of the PAX were already queuing at the front of the plane, with the three big bags each that they had managed to drag out of the crammed overhead bins, ready to jump off as soon as it had slowed towards the end of the runway, like they do on the London busses.
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*Self-Loading-Freight do it sitting down with cramps*
[This message has been edited by ExSimGuy (edited 19 April 2000).]