Flying on Christmas day

Flying on Christmas day actually is quite good from Shanghai to SFO. There were no line-up, lots of seats. At the moment I am sitting in the UA's Economy Plus section with 3 seats all by myself. Better than paying the US$10,000 for a Business Class seat on a tired 747-400.

Service is par with AC; that is so-so. But you can tell some fly attendance are trying hard to "service with a smile". After flying in Asia, the UA cabin seems very dated, dirty and improving. I am watching very bad movies. The movie skips and jerks. There is no personal entertainment system. Only 12 channels to choose from for audio selection. Will it get worse before getting better? Good thing this flight will be only 9 hours and 20 some odd minutes; good tail wind! Am dragging the looong flight back from SFO to PVG on January 10th. Have to pack my snack boxes.

The lunch portion was quite small. From the look, my vegetarian meal was far better than the regular ones. I think the airline was trying to save $ on "smaller" portion; maybe MacDonald should "downsize" its meals like UA. Obesity might go away gradually. When the snack came, the passengers including myself inhaled the content in record time. Seem the service was hurry up to eat, drink then collect. There was no civility of having your food digested. Yes, the snack contained non-heathy carb as well as fried chinese crackers with cheese. I think my own snack box will be healthier. Since Audrey and I ordered vegetarian meals, we had our own snack boxes; rather than meat with the finger size sandwich, we had what seemed to be tomatoes and cucumber. Cabin light dimming had it advantage :-P