Recounting Pieces of the Trip
Getting There and Back Again: Long days in either direction. The Albuquerque to Chicago leg in both directions was aboard an Embraer 175 - an aircraft company I hadn't heard of. 2x2 seating and around a hundred people. Not much legroom. The flights between Chicago and Dublin were Boeing 767 variants with some odd refits. Flying out it was apparent the monitors over the center rows had been put in later, and I ended up sitting where there wasn't an air nozzle and my overhead reading light actually focused on the row in front of me. Heh. Flew overnight, and I managed a little sleep going on. The flight back had controllers in the arm rest that could serve for TV's or game consoles, but no individual screens in the seat backs, so that was sort of a pointless addition. Our flights out of Chicago both ways were delayed. Going out, they reported a "mechanical problem" about a half hour before flight time, delayed things, gave us dinner vouchers, and finally got anot...