exp. – full
Or more specifically so full it’s about to crack open. This was the term used by the woman checking us in recently to describe our flight to New York. I couldn’t help but think that it probably wasn’t the best choice of words to use for a plane. After all, one doesn’t really want to think of a plane cracking open or cracking at all.
She wasn’t lying. The flight was indeed full and we had the same squished-like-sardine feeling common with most air travel. I took solace however, in the fact that the airline now offered almost 100 movies to choose from (I think it was 83 to be exact). Of course there is a downside to this since there are still many people who have not mastered the touch screen. Note to those – it is not necessary to push the screen into the back of my head, but merely to touch it, hence the name.
While my husband and I were relishing our airplane food and wine (free on international flights so we took full advantage), others were already starting their line-up for the free film festival. As our bad luck would have it, by the time we were ready to start watching, the system was so overloaded from the full flight that we couldn’t access any of the movies at all.
My husband brought this to the attention of the flight attendant who said he would take it up with the chef de cabine – when she woke up from her nap! It’s not like we were flying to Tokyo, the flight is barely eight hours. I would feel more comfortable with everyone on the crew being awake and present during that time. I don’t even know how to sleep on a plane although I have seen it done. Oh well, at least nothing cracked open except another bottle of wine.
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