Details of my longest transatlantic flight ever coming shortly!

By: Ben Schlappig

Published: March 18, 2013

18 comments

Hello live from 33,000 feet somewhere over the Atlantic approaching Europe.

As I blogged about a few days ago, American invited me to try their new 777-300ER in business class between New York and London, which I took them up on.

What was supposed to be a quick transatlantic hop turned into my longest transatlantic flight ever, as I spent over 13 hours on the 777-300ER due to a weather delay.

Anyway, stay tuned, as I’ll be sharing all the details, including double deicing, double refueling, triple safety videos, and a visit from the po-po, shortly. It was quite the flight, to say the least!

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Eric F-D Guest

March 20, 2013, 11:45 pm

@AndyF - well said about George's shameless plugs for his own site. Opportunistic bashing to generate controversy whenever one is also self promoting is pretty shameless of you George.

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lucky OMAAT

March 19, 2013, 6:36 pm

@ Alan -- Handy indeed! You can read about it here: http://www.aa.com/i18n/agency/Booking_Ticketing/Reaccom/oneworld_tkt_policy.jsp

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Alan Guest

March 19, 2013, 6:34 pm

@Lucky - wow that Oneworld rule sounds handy!! Have you got a link to anything re it? Could be a handy thing to keep a note of...

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AndyF New Member

March 19, 2013, 4:19 pm

@ George - Nice try, but your post smells like an "advertisement" for your own site -- trolling Lucky to get attention, i.e. directing traffic to your advertisement-heavy site. Remove your URL, or remove the ads from your site and maybe your post will seem more genuine.

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lucky OMAAT

March 19, 2013, 3:03 pm

@ Sam -- First at the gate, then on the tarmac, then back at the gate. More details on that later. @ Ismael -- I thought my nearly five hour connection was enough, but it wasn't. Fortunately OneWorld has an awesome rule whereby you can be rebooked if you misconnect, even if it's on separate tickets. @ George -- Respectfully out of my hundreds of trips a handful of them have been comped, and as far as I can remember there was never more than one from a single travel provider. My job is to keep you guys happy, not companies. But rather than tell you that, let me say this -- when I write my review I'd love your feedback as to whether you think I'm fair or not. If you honestly think I'm not being fair I'd really like to know.

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