Zacharius

Probably because Comfort + is not a different class. It's standard economy class with a little more legroom and one or two other basic perks. As far as I know, Delta uses the same fare codes for full-fare economy and Comfort+ (Y, B, M, W, S) so the system probably can't tell the difference.

I currently live in Kansas but travel internationally for a living. Whenever I tell people I am American, they always ask if I am from California, New York, or Texas. I say Kansas and they just look...confused. I'm also Namibian, but it's even harder to tell people I'm from Namibia!

Pros and cons of Chicago airports. In winter, I often choose to actually fly through Chicago instead of somewhere like Dallas (I'm an AA frequent flier) because I know that Chicago can handle most of the weather. Give me 6" of snow in Chicago over a single flake of snow in Dallas. I've had 1" get me stuck in Dallas for 36 hours (giggity), whereas I've made barely-delayed connections at O'Hare with 6x that snow.

Ha, this happened to me once on a work trip...client asked me to come to Dallas and I failed to realize, despite being a big football fan, that my day of arrival was Super Bowl Sunday, in Dallas. Client must have forgot this too and didn't love my hotel bill for that night!

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I can't imagine Royal Caribbean's insurers are anywhere close to letting them send a ship and thousands of people back to Labadee. I imagine that will be the biggest guiding factor in any decision.

As an AA frequent flier, I spent so much damn time on Mad Dogs...love hate relationship. Their maintenance issues were ridiculous and I felt like there was a 50/50 shot they would have to sub out the plane or have some delay for maintenance (not literally 50/50, but like 51/49!). But yeah...when you hear the wind passing by your window because you can't hear the jets, you realize how special that engine config is. I remember one time flying in to DFW in first class of a Mad Dog and we could hear the cockpit warnings go off because of wind shear on final. Myself and the guy next to me, having been drinking whiskey together all the way from Hartford, looked at each other and nervously smiled as the pilot laid on the throttle to get us the hell out of there and back around for a safer approach.

I'm not really in the field, per se...I am an aero engineer and I travel a ton, but I am not in the airline business. Airlines do change flight numbers often, though my (possibly incorrect) understanding of the federal government data I was quoting is that, since it's based on airlines as a whole, the changing of flight numbers doesn't impact that data. On the other hand, the statistics within an airline can be skewed (i.e. if you look on United for on-time statistics for flight 1234, the data may be a bit skewed because flight 1234 may not exist all year round, year after year, etc. etc.). However, that's not the data I was pulling/quoting. For the 26ish years I have been traveling seemingly nonstop, I do anecdotally find travel more-or-less the same on time, if not slightly better. Part of that comes down to aircraft being newer and better maintained, so for example an airline like Delta or American doesn't have hundreds of MD-80s with seemingly constant mechanical breakdowns that delay their operations. Comfort is an interesting one. In economy, I agree, it's not as comfortable as it used to be (though that's a separate convo from our original one). In business/first, it's better than ever.

This is a common sentiment, but it's actually not accurate. In the US, in 2023, about 78.4% of flights were on time. Looking back historically, the 2010s as a decade averaged about 79% on time, the 2000s about 75% on time, the 1990s about 77% on time. So, almost 80% of flights are on-time these days, and that's the same as, if not slightly above, what it has been for the last few decades. It's still very reliable considering there are tens of thousands of flights with millions of passengers each and every day. I guess that "a lot" of flights still do get delayed, because 20% out of 13,000 flights is still a decent number, but your odds of being on an on-time flight are several times higher than being on a delayed flight. Still, fly in a day in advance or more. I agree with that 100%.

Is that the mascot for the 2028 Los Angeles games?

They will be pole vaulting off the deck at 10:30am, and trampoline is at 2pm if the wind isn't too bad

It's definitely quite nice. I had a client put me up there twice and it was very enjoyable. Good location, good views, nice restaurant and bar. Last time I stayed there, I stayed across the hall from the (then) number one golfer in the world, so...there's no shortage of people with money staying there too haha. (Funny story is we actually sat across from each other on the DFW-SYD flight to get there, and then we opened our hotel rooms the next day to find us across from each other again)

Out of those, I've stayed in both the Park Hyatt and the Marriott. Both are great. The Hyatt is nicer, but I am assuming you're finding a higher price. Also check out The Langham. As a curveball, my colleague tends to stay at the Little National Hotel and has the absolute best things to say about it. It's more mid-range in price and the rooms are smaller, but the location is still great.

It definitely happens, but it's very odd what happened from what I can tell...G-TTNN appears to be the aircraft that was scheduled on OP's LHR-FCO flight, and the aircraft arrived on time the night before from Rome. While OP's flight was cancelled, and all other LHR-FCO appear to have gone off as planned, G-TTNN did end up leaving that morning on a flight to Athens, albeit about 40 minutes late. On the way back from Athens, it diverted to Amsterdam for a couple of hours...perhaps weather related? None of this answers why OP's flight was cancelled, though. Since then, G-TTNN has continued on its merry way around Europe without issue.

This is an incredibly important realization that everyone needs to have. Air2Sea does a great job of marketing speak to make it sound like a guarantee, but a true guarantee does not really exist. Air2Sea can't create new routes, can't create new planes, can't create new seats or kick people out of current seats. There aren't always airports, flights, or even laws that allow them to drop people close to every cruise port. Do they try the hardest they can? Maybe...I don't know, sometimes it seems like it and sometimes it doesn't. But there's definitely no 100% guarantee.