The airport is fun because everywhere you turn is another Angel City person. We dump our stuff at the “headquarters” row of chairs at the gate, hoping that maybe one of the twelve lingering choir members would watch it? Not really asking, just assuming, Sean follows our every move with his little bug camera.
Once on the plane, there is a slow scramble to move around and switch seats. The flight is not full, and our group is spread out over ten rows with lots of empty seats. Thank goodness, because we have FIFTEEN hours together on this flight.
Here are some Emirates Airlines features:
The in-flight entertainment book is fifty pages long. There are over fifty movies (to be watched at any given time on your own screen – with pausing!), twenty types of TV shows, many many games, and over one hundred radio channels, some of which playing whole albums of current and past artists. I watched Country Stong (terrific) and The Company Men (not terrific) and came in nearly last in the in-flight trivia tournament.
The flight show channel, in which you can watch the plane's progress around the globe, features not only the typical animated plane infographic, but also has a forward camera and downward camera that show real-time actual footage from below and in front of the plane. It was too bad that most of our flight took place at night.
There are stars in the ceiling above the aisles that light up at night.
The plane bathroom was large! Dan reported that it was “big enough for a threesome!”
Free booze.
Despite sitting next to the window, the only pretty thing I saw the entire time was North Dakota or Saskatchewan at night, very rural and thus not brightly lit, however each farm house was marked by a yellow light, as though they were required to keep a giant spotlight by the garage, and the effect was like little fireflies spread over the darkened land. It reminded me of my favorite line from Peace Like a River, where the night sky is compared to a velvet cloth strewn with diamonds.
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