United uses the term purser. Even on short haul flights with only 3 flight attendants. They will say at the beginning, “My name is so and so, and I’ll be your purser for today’s flight. Joining me today is…..” See? Some of us do listen to the flight attendants!

I’ve flown business on Singapore and Air New Zealand in the upstairs of a 744, and I thought it was plenty roomy in a 2 x 2 configuration. I especially like the storage bins right below the windows.

What airline was that?

I would assume that was business class, wasn’t it Mongu?

United routinely uses their A319/A320’s on cross-country segments of around 5 hours. No different that flying a 757 on a similar route. I’ve flown LAX-IAD, EWR-SDG, etc. on them. They’re just fine for me, as long as I’m sitting in the isle so I can go to the toilet.

You’re referring the Northridge quake in 94, yes I did. No damage done to my parents place. Lot’s of damage in the Northridge/Ventura area. It shook us up pretty good, though. I’ve experience a few others of similar magnitude.

You have the correct spelling, kev, I was trying to figure out was it was! They duly used that same blue and red stripe colour scheme.

The Trents were available at that time for BA, Bhoy. This is why such an uproar ensued when they did, in fact, choose the GE’s for whatever reason they did. Here is the namesake of the thread, taken by yours truly at SYD a few weeks back. My first pic posted on here.