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- From: staggers@cup.hp.com (Ken Staggers)
- Subject: Re: ual #918 from iad to
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 19:42:12 GMT
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- "reg lafontaine" (reg.lafontaine@canrem.com) wrote:
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- : KS>When I was planning my trip to Asia, I absolutely had to travel on a 747-400.
- : KS>None of Northwest's printed schedules indicated that a 744 was being used
- : KS>from JFK-NRT. But when I called them up, their computer insisted that it
- : KS>was a 744. Even the last schedule book didnt have it as a 744. But
-
- : Not being sarcastic, but WHY did it HAVE to be a 747-400? Is it a
- : more comfortable plane? Better seat pitch? Safer?
-
- No...simply put, I had not been on a 747-400 before. I had been on a 747-200,
- so I wanted to try this plane. Plus, since I went first class, I wanted it
- to be on the biggest, most modern 747 NW had. I wished that they had installed
- their WorldLink system by the time I took the trip (about 13.5 hours in the
- air), but you cant have everything. First class cabin was more roomier than
- the 747-200 I took from NRT-HNL.
-
- --Ken
-