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The best seat on the plane

I was once assigned a seat in the middle of a row of five on a Boeing 777 on what turned out to be my longest flight ever: strong head winds extended the flight time of the flight from Kuala Lumpur to Amsterdam to 14 hours 15 minutes!! I can’t remember ever feeling so elated [...]

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Heathrow most tedious, JFK rudest

This poll confirms what I’ve always suspected. London’s Heathrow is in my book one of the most tedious airports in the world, if not THE most tedious. And I had a nasty experience with an unbelievably rude immigrations officer at New York’s JFK airport many years ago. Since then, I’ve avoided JFK at all costs [...]

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