So you decided to drop a fair amount of cash to attend your first domainer conference..
you got a few domains accepted into the live conference; the stars are beginning to align..you’re beginning to count the cash in your head…
..until you jump on your flight.
Ever sit on a bad seat on a plane?
I have.
And I witnessed, recently, the worst I’ve possibly ever seen.
Take note the plane and seat numbers:
Boeing 767-400er (a Delta plane in this case)
Seats 14C and 14E
Bad, obviously not in terms of poor selection of row mates, but poor in regards to location to lavatory.
not like a row away.. but directly across the aisle.
close like you’re dancing a tango with a urinal cake.
On a solid 4 hour flight out to Salt Lake, I duly noted this seat number to alert myself, but hopefully, alert others, to it’s unfortunate location.
“Well, Peter, when I’m making my online reservation, I’ll - obviously - be able to see it’s crappy location, and avoid booking it.”
Here’s the thing..good ole Delta (and other airlines) seem to use fuzzy math clearly identifying these locations on this plane..
take this image I grabbed from their site:
14C and 14E are situated *directly across from the lavatories*
The image shows a blank area across from these seats, and my red arrows show the actual location of said wash rooms.
The poor gal sitting in 14C for 4 hours from ATL to Salt Lake seemed dizzy with fumes after the flight…so..
Save yourself, my dear domainers. Take heed. Smellfest, crappy seat airplane flights are avoidable.
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I feel your pain. Let me turn you on to http://www.seatguru.com
I only wish I’d found it before spending 5 hours in route to Hawaii cramped up against the emergency exit door.
Sorry to read about your bad experience Peter.
Check out SeatGuru.com - they grade airplane seats and if memory serves you can submit your own notes.
Go to seatguru.com , this will never happen again
thanks for the reminder..I thought there was a site like seat guru out there, just wasn’t sure how watered down their results were.. this seat was just so fantastically bad, I felt the need to share..
oh yeah, and it wan’t my seat, I was in exit row, I just had a clear shot at the poor gal sitting there..
-peter
“close like you’re dancing a tango with a urinal cake.”
haha
I read you post on RSS, jumped over to recommend seatguru.com and of course found I was a day late and a dollar short.
One thing that does come to mind, possible useless, but worth a try, one can always ask a flight attendant, quietly and politely, for re-seating if something significant … like the odor and noise, are troublesome. The cabin staff may not be helpful, but give them a chance … I’ve been helped many times.
That seatguru.com site is great, thanks Ron.
We had a similar experience to you coming from the UK to San Francisco on our British Airways (BA) flight. You’re so close to the toilets you can literally shut the door. I say literally, as I had plenty of practice when inconsiderate bas**rds left it wide open afterwards*
*by all rights that should be an federal offense