Day 0.5 – Flying to Athens
So I’ve been assigned the short/lame write up and you’ll just be getting a quick look into how we got to Greece from me.
So we used our miles to upgrade to business class for this first leg of the trip (San Francisco –> Frankfurt) and this gave us access to the wonderful Red Carpet Club. We got to the airport about 3 hours early so we had time to kill. This was Jaci’s first time in the Red Carpet Club and she was amazed and how it made the time fly by much quicker! They included free drinks, free access to internet, and some free snacks (cookies and fruit).
Red Carpet Club
They were even kind enough to announce when you would need to start walking over to your gate, so we just chilled there until we were ready. Then of course we got to skip all the lines and enter via the fancy “business class” line which was a breeze. Once onto the plane we were welcomes with this view:
In Flight TV Screens
Each seat had these fancy tv-screens, I didn’t take a picture of it, but below the tv screens are two different foot rests (one on the ground and one higher up). In order to control all these things, the arm rests have these consoles:
In Flight Arm Rest
Try to figure out what everything does! It took us a little while. I’m pretty sure the green button on top made the plane take off and land at our discretion, because this flight was by far the most comfortable one we’ve ever been on.
- The seats were fully reclining - there was SO much leg room (I could literally swing my legs to a full extension and not worry about kicking the seat in front of me (even though there wasn’t anyone sitting on the opposite end, since they have seats facing each other).
- They had a fairly decent selection of movies, I watched Book of Eli (terrible movie btw) and Jaci watched It’s Complicated (she thought it was good, it looked pretty terrible to me), and she was going to watch shutter island but we ran out of time (You heard that right… ran out of time).
- Every seat had regular electrical outlets for charging items (My Laptop in this case… I had to write up some stuff for work *wohwohwoh*)
- Fancy dinner menu selection (Jaci had the “first class duck” and I had some sort of chicken eggplant thingy)
- Lastly, (probably forgetting a bunch of stuff but oh well) this was probably the first flight where I didn’t get off feeling dehydrated. They literally keep refilling your cup with bottled water so you always have something to drink.
One of the flight attendants seemed a little grumpy, but otherwise this leg of the flight was absolutely fantastic! Unfortunately, we had a 5 hour layover in Frankfurt, with no access to the red carpet club (apparently flying in business isn’t enough, you have to fly out business as well) so we just hung out at a cafe for a few hours (and I continued to do my work work) until we took off for Athens. The flight to Athens from Frankfurt wasn’t half as enjoyable as our San Francisco to Frankfurt flight, but ah well, only so much business class we could get =)
Here are a couple of pictures from the flight!
Frankfurt From The Air
Almost In Athens
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