Friday, August 12

Plane Rides Back - Luke

The plane ride to Chicago was the worst plane ride ever. We got to test new features. They were considering to give every United plane these features. THEY WERE HORRIBLE! This was an 8 hour flight by the way. So one of the new features was the light and call flight attendant buttons. Instead of being on the top, they were on your armrest. This originally seemed cool until you fell asleep, and you accidentally turned on your light. Or when you were reading and you heard all the flight attendant button noises going off. There was one more new, main feature. On our way from DC to Hawaii, we had a TV screen in front of us with so many great things. For this flight, you needed to download the United app. You would then place a phone or tablet on the phone/tablet holder in front of you. You would connect to wifi inflight, and it would play. Now that seemed like a pretty good idea, but some people didn't have the United app downloaded because it didn't say that we wouldn't have the screens. We all assumed we would because it was an 8 hour flight, and it said we would have United Private Screening. That apparently means both screens and the app. It also had less than half of the entertainment on the DC to HI flight. On top of that all, the movies buffered, and we could only get one device to work well. After landing in Chicago, we got some bagels for breakfast and Garrett Popcorn for the plane. The Chicago to Philly flight went by fast, and we were home before we knew it (12:00).