Has anybody ever seen the movie “Made,” where Vince Vaughn hits the attendant call button 4 times in the span of 2 minutes? LOL, great scene. I have never once hit that thing, out of all my flights. I just wait till they come around, or I go to the galley myself. FA’s have one of the hardest jobs dealing with unruly pax, and all sorts of other riffraff. My trip to N.Y. 2 weeks ago, I was flying business class on UA from LAX-JFK, and I was reading the TWA, An Airline and It’s Aircraft, and one of the FA’s brought it to the attention of the purser who used to fly TWA, and she started rubbing the book and hugging it. We strolled down memory lane together, she was awe inspired by the book, so I told her where she could get it. Good memories.

If I make it up to Victorville, I’ll definitely post the pics, Steve. I still have a lot from SYD I have yet to post.

Not to mention, BA serves a lot more cities in addition to the ones they compete on with UA. I guess UA vs. Virgin would be a more favorable comparison. I think Virgin does pretty damn good on their own, though. I consider them to be in a different class, from an ownership standpoint, than BA. I see what you mean by pushing harder, but I don’t think that’s ever the case in this market. United always had really high load factors on their LHR (Europe in particular, except maybe MXP and DUS which they dropped recently) routes and especially on their Pacific routes (before SARS). So in this case, they wouldn’t have to push harder.

How far is it, proximity from yourself to the taxiing aircraft? Very close. Like I said before, the winglets on a 744 are practically, but not quite, over your head. This shot of Wunnala dreaming was taken with a 50mm lens, which is nothing.

What do you mean by “push harder?” UA and BA do compete on said route, as they do on the LHR-LAX/JFK/ORD/EWR/BOS (maybe? I think UA might have dropped that one). In every single one of those, BA operates more flights. 3 vs. 1 in LAX. A ton to 2 in JFK, not sure about the others. Either way, BA has a hell of a lot more flights from England to the U.S. than does UA, or even their esteemed colleagues, AA. So even if UA is being subsidized, as a whole, obviously, not just for their domestic or INTL services, BA is still dominating the market, really. As far as the consequences you mentioned, prices rising, service dropping, etc., I just don’t see that happening even in the aforementioned scenario.

I don’t know when the new one is due out, soon hopefully. Thanks for all the kind words boys, more are on the way. I don’t know if any of you saw the QF A330 I posted on the thread that was named “QANTAS A330’s.” Should still be on page 2.

Nice job, Bearded wonder!

I’ve never heard it, good one!