Comments on: Without pain on a plane

By: Eszter

Eszter — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 18:01:45 +0000

gmoke – good question, but no, I’m afraid I didn’t have any time for that. Next time!:)

By: gmoke

gmoke — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 23:58:10 +0000

Did you dance?

By: Eszter

Eszter — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 02:46:55 +0000

RP - Several people mentioned the issue regarding elevated foot in the previous thread already. Curiously, my feet (actually my knees) ended up hurting quite a bit while in business class! They were doing just fine on the way to Buenos Aires. I wasn’t sure why that happened. But it kept me awake part of the trip unfortunately.

By: Randy Paul

Randy Paul — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 01:32:49 +0000

Eszter,

I know what you mean. I was AAdvantage Gold or Platinum on American for 10 years and I got upgraded to Business Calls on six of my 14 trips to Brazil on American. At 6’2” it makes a difference. What’s funny is the single thing that makes the greatest difference is the foot rest.

By: Eszter

Eszter — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 22:40:26 +0000

Thanks for the corrections, Alejandro, I have corrected the titles of those pictures.

The Freddo ice cream was great, despite the cold weather. I don’t like caramel, but my friend convinced me to try the caramel with chocolate chunks anyway and I was glad I did as it was great!

RP - I took United, I’m a Premier member (and will hit Premier Exec by next year) so it was worth it. This gives me free access to Economy Plus seats (gotta have those extra x inches of legroom!) and I suspect it has helped in getting me free business class upgrades in the past few months.

By: Randy Paul

Randy Paul — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 21:04:33 +0000

mark,

You’re right, but let me put it this way. With the noise-canceling headphones, you hear conversations perfectly well, but the ambient noise of the plane is gone. It makes it easier to maintain a conversation than with earplugs.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 20:12:04 +0000

Thanks for updating on how things worked. I was interested because I plan to fly from Chicago to Quito in a few months.

By the way, you can talk and hear with earplugs, they just cut the level of sound you hear.

By: Randy Paul

Randy Paul — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 17:50:08 +0000

Eszter,

What airline did you take? United or American, I’m guessing.

The best things about the headphones is that you can simply put them on and still hold a conversation, something that you can’t do with the earplugs.

I was flying back from São Paulo to JFK once and the guy sitting next to me was cotinuing on to Tokyo! 10 hours plus 13 hours. He had a 10 hour layover, so I told him to spend $50 and get a day pass for the Admiral’s Club where he could take a shower and relax comfortably. He e-mailed me later to tell me it was the best $50 he’d ever spent.

By: Alejandro

Alejandro — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 16:05:40 +0000

Same as Vicky, an Argentinian student now abroad. I am sorry to nitpick on the great pictures by saying that what you have called the church on Plaza de Mayo is actually the Cabildo (colonial town hall).

Oh, and Freddo ice cream is great. Though I’d rather have Persicco myself.

By: vicky

vicky — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 14:52:50 +0000

hi,

I’m glad you liked Buenos Aires. I’m from there, but I am in the US doing my PhD. It seems you went to Puerto Madero and some steak and provoleta. And some ice-cream. My, how I miss Freddo. The pictures of the Plaza de Mayo and Florida are pretty neat.

Next time you are down there I can give you more tips of places to go and visit!

Hope the talk went fine too.