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This reading material is really not helpful right now, I thought. Time to stop reading about business. Also time to stop checking my watch.
So I tried napping, which on the Q400 is about as comfortable as trying to sleep while standing in a crowded subway car.
Sure enough, the flight eventually landed in LA’s International Airport without incident. Between the airplane and the immigration checkpoint, the high-speed procession of passengers resembled an Olympic sprint trial for senior citizens.
Once in the terminal, I asked directions from the information desk to my connecting flight’s terminal. The man on duty was friendly and helpful. An older lady asked him where the elevator was. He said unfortunately the elevator had been broken all day long, and was still broken. Bad news for disabled or handicapped people, among others.
I walked ten minutes or so to the international terminal, and settled into the One World lounge, which is shared by several airlines including Cathay Pacific, my carrier back to Hong Kong. It’s a nice enough lounge, although crowded and noisy.
With a five-hour layover, I fired up my laptop, but found to my disappointment that the WI-FI signal was weak and unstable. I would not have been surprised if this were Mexico, but this was the international terminal at LAX.
Later, on board Cathay Pacific’s nice new Boeing-777-300 ER aircraft, I had a comfortable flight across the Pacific with world class service, good food, and lots of toilets. Roomy toilets. Empty toilets. Long live inflight toilets!
Clearly, America needs a lot of new infrastructure.
Alaska Airlines needs more plumbers. And better management.
P.S. My letter to Alaska Airlines’ customer service head, Andy Schneider, has so far gone without acknowledgement or response. Andy solicits feedback from passengers via a card placed in each seat back. Perhaps his in-box is “full”..
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