Window seat please!
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Window please!
Agree with PAXboy on EZY rear stairs tactic at Luton - choice of windows from back to halfway up while the herd milled around at the front. And its always good fun checking out all the rich folk who've got swimming pools as you turn base for 5 at Stansted - well as long as you don't run downwind as far as Harlow that is!
Agree with PAXboy on EZY rear stairs tactic at Luton - choice of windows from back to halfway up while the herd milled around at the front. And its always good fun checking out all the rich folk who've got swimming pools as you turn base for 5 at Stansted - well as long as you don't run downwind as far as Harlow that is!
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if I can't get the Jumpseat
then it has to be asile.. now Kai Tak has gone (miss seeing the washing on the lines)Lucky enough to video a landing in the (then)newly opened KUL, wot a veiw!!!!!!! beats a window seat anytime. I'm lucky (pushy?) enough to get 7/10 landings up front.
Yet to have an a/c with the camera on the front wheel, can't wait! (sad T3 Child)Will I be able to record it? seeing as they always want your stuff put away for landing.......
then it has to be asile.. now Kai Tak has gone (miss seeing the washing on the lines)Lucky enough to video a landing in the (then)newly opened KUL, wot a veiw!!!!!!! beats a window seat anytime. I'm lucky (pushy?) enough to get 7/10 landings up front.
Yet to have an a/c with the camera on the front wheel, can't wait! (sad T3 Child)Will I be able to record it? seeing as they always want your stuff put away for landing.......
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The WORST I have EVER had was being trapped in the middle block in a UA 747-400 in Y. this was SFO to HKG (Kai Tak) and so about a dozen hours and the neighbours all talked at high volume and slurped their noodles. Gak! This could have been an early case of air-rage!
What really made it hurt was that this was a new route for me. OK, I KNOW that most of it would have been water - but I want to see the water OK??!!
What really made it hurt was that this was a new route for me. OK, I KNOW that most of it would have been water - but I want to see the water OK??!!
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Well, now that you mention it, I try to get a window seat, not in order to stare at the Earth's surface but to avoid one of my pet hates.
When you reach your destination observe how anxious your fellow passengers are to get off.
They simply can't wait.
Some of them will stand, bent double, under the hatrack for ten minutes while they fumble around with the Airbridge.
If I am in an aisle seat I regularly get these idiots asking me to get up so they can take part in this ridiculous ritual.
This is such a regular feature of human behaviour on aeroplanes I wonder how it would be best explained.
When you reach your destination observe how anxious your fellow passengers are to get off.
They simply can't wait.
Some of them will stand, bent double, under the hatrack for ten minutes while they fumble around with the Airbridge.
If I am in an aisle seat I regularly get these idiots asking me to get up so they can take part in this ridiculous ritual.
This is such a regular feature of human behaviour on aeroplanes I wonder how it would be best explained.
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Window seat for me too! It's a case of having that extra 2 inches to slump against. Also I have been fortunate to have seen some great sights from 33,000 feet. The Pyramids, Istanbul and the Sea of Marmara, Athens, Mont Blanc, just to name a few. But the best view has to be the south coast of England on a clear day when travelling Brymon from Gatwick (sadly now not Heathrow) to Plymouth and Newquay. The aircraft hit north of Hayling Island and you follow the coast and see al the Isle of Wight, Southampton, Poole Harbour, Purbeck, Portland and Lyme Bay. And the wonderful rolling hills of Dartmoor. Yes, I may like my sleep on a flight but given a clear day, a window seat for me every time.
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Oh yes I forgot to mention the Holy City of Mecca! I was flying Sana'a to somewhere on Lufthansa a few years back and the pilot disturbed us with the welcome news that those of us sitting on the left could see Jeddah, and those of us on the right could see Mecca. Having spent 3 rotten years working in the KSA it was my cue to get up and head to the lavatory and express physically what I felt about that nation and it's so called religion! 
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Window seat, every time... well, unless it's on an empty redeye back from the US when I take over a middle row and get seriously horizontal. Cures jet lag completely.
But even if there's not much to see, the window at least reminds me that I'm flying and not stuck on some coach. I've also got a very capacious bladder, so can usually avoid the need for even the longest flight. And there's that little extra bit of personal space from not having someone both sides of you, or people rambling up and down the aisle.
And when there is stuff to see: wow! If only there were more nosewheel cams... I can quite see the next development of those will be a series of cameras dotted around the outside feeding a virtual reality graphics program displayed on eye goggles, so you can look around as you much as you like. Imagine that when you're over the ice, or during an aurora. I'd go for that, big time.
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But even if there's not much to see, the window at least reminds me that I'm flying and not stuck on some coach. I've also got a very capacious bladder, so can usually avoid the need for even the longest flight. And there's that little extra bit of personal space from not having someone both sides of you, or people rambling up and down the aisle.
And when there is stuff to see: wow! If only there were more nosewheel cams... I can quite see the next development of those will be a series of cameras dotted around the outside feeding a virtual reality graphics program displayed on eye goggles, so you can look around as you much as you like. Imagine that when you're over the ice, or during an aurora. I'd go for that, big time.
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Reading these other observations (window ... observations ... geddit?) 
It confirms for me that window is best!
'What was that DH again?' Yes - I was cheesed about msissing the Kai Tak approach on that occasion but I was fortunate enough to have it on several other occasions, both from the land and the sea as well. This was neat as you did not see any aspect of the runway until shortly before threshold, with the lights on stalks in the water!
mallard: Agree with you on the queue to get off. At LTN, I know that I can continue to read my paper/magazine undisturbed in the window seat - I am last off the plane - walk to the terminal - have time to use the toilet - and STILL be at the carosel before my bag!
Pax Vobiscum (like the name!) (I wanted Paxman, of course but it had already gone) trying to find out the seat row numbers and wing location is very difficult. Simply knowing the machine type is not enough. Often a polite request at check in helps. I find that, if you can time your request for seat row correctly - after the agent has done most of what they have to do but before automatically assinging you a seat - then they can be very helpful. For the check-in agent, politeness is everything.
Tonight I shall be nipping around to those back stairs at LTN and into 23A - so as to get the better view of EDI at night as we make the big left handed turn around the city, over the Firth.
Safe Journey fellow pax
[ 16 July 2001: Message edited by: PAXboy ]
It confirms for me that window is best!
'What was that DH again?' Yes - I was cheesed about msissing the Kai Tak approach on that occasion but I was fortunate enough to have it on several other occasions, both from the land and the sea as well. This was neat as you did not see any aspect of the runway until shortly before threshold, with the lights on stalks in the water!
mallard: Agree with you on the queue to get off. At LTN, I know that I can continue to read my paper/magazine undisturbed in the window seat - I am last off the plane - walk to the terminal - have time to use the toilet - and STILL be at the carosel before my bag!
Pax Vobiscum (like the name!) (I wanted Paxman, of course but it had already gone) trying to find out the seat row numbers and wing location is very difficult. Simply knowing the machine type is not enough. Often a polite request at check in helps. I find that, if you can time your request for seat row correctly - after the agent has done most of what they have to do but before automatically assinging you a seat - then they can be very helpful. For the check-in agent, politeness is everything.
Tonight I shall be nipping around to those back stairs at LTN and into 23A - so as to get the better view of EDI at night as we make the big left handed turn around the city, over the Firth.
Safe Journey fellow pax
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Agree with fudpacker - window for shorthaul, aisle for longhaul. Far more things to look at over Europe and the UK than up at 390 over the desert...
And the legroom in a BA 777 in Y is so pathetic these days if you ever want to go to the loo - get an aisle seat.
Although, with any luck I'll get one of those First cabin jobbies next time I go.
And the legroom in a BA 777 in Y is so pathetic these days if you ever want to go to the loo - get an aisle seat.
Although, with any luck I'll get one of those First cabin jobbies next time I go.
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For flights in my part of my world, the rule is simple,if flying within the country take a Window seat. The scenary on approach to many airports are fantastic and since the average domestic flight is about 90 min and
since 737 seems to hold the monopoly there is not much difference in seat width/legroom etc anyway.
Different story if you are flying in from abroad!Shorthaul or longhaul, flights here seem to prefer landing between 2200-0300
and unless you want to be at the back of a
100 people long immigration que (after all you can't get out of the plane until your companions unload their cabin bagge and gets moving), you better grab an aisle seat.
The fact that even after waiting for an hour clearing immigration, you still end up
waiting another hour watching other people pick up their bags and go before yours (hopefully!) arrives is a different matter.
since 737 seems to hold the monopoly there is not much difference in seat width/legroom etc anyway.
Different story if you are flying in from abroad!Shorthaul or longhaul, flights here seem to prefer landing between 2200-0300
and unless you want to be at the back of a
100 people long immigration que (after all you can't get out of the plane until your companions unload their cabin bagge and gets moving), you better grab an aisle seat.
The fact that even after waiting for an hour clearing immigration, you still end up
waiting another hour watching other people pick up their bags and go before yours (hopefully!) arrives is a different matter.
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I agree with Tailspin
There is nothing better in this world (well, maybe a few things
) than breaking through thick white cloud into the gorgeous sunshine up above.
Even after many years of very regular transatlantic flying, I still get a thrill looking out of the window and seeing things you otherwise probably wouldn't such as icebergs in the Atlantic, or Greenland from 35,000 feet.
Mind you, there's nothing more depressing than coming out of the gorgeous sunshine into the clouds at Manchester just knowing that as soon as you do, there's going to be rain running down the windscreen. Every bloody time!
Always make me want to sit on the aircraft and just go back again
There is nothing better in this world (well, maybe a few things
) than breaking through thick white cloud into the gorgeous sunshine up above. Even after many years of very regular transatlantic flying, I still get a thrill looking out of the window and seeing things you otherwise probably wouldn't such as icebergs in the Atlantic, or Greenland from 35,000 feet.
Mind you, there's nothing more depressing than coming out of the gorgeous sunshine into the clouds at Manchester just knowing that as soon as you do, there's going to be rain running down the windscreen. Every bloody time!
Always make me want to sit on the aircraft and just go back again
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window seat please.
Try middle middle on Moscow Air IL-86 from Siberia to Moscow. Good part is it is from Siberia. Smokers stand aft next to the lavs by the no smoking signs. Overhead bins coming open occasionally, seatbacks flopping over to the down and flat position. What cabin safety demo?
With the fare I paid (800 rubles) about $40 I don't know how they even paid for gas let alone maintenance even if the crew flew for nothing.
I'll never complain about US Air Shuttle again.
Try middle middle on Moscow Air IL-86 from Siberia to Moscow. Good part is it is from Siberia. Smokers stand aft next to the lavs by the no smoking signs. Overhead bins coming open occasionally, seatbacks flopping over to the down and flat position. What cabin safety demo?
With the fare I paid (800 rubles) about $40 I don't know how they even paid for gas let alone maintenance even if the crew flew for nothing.
I'll never complain about US Air Shuttle again.
