Suhani's SAS Blog

Dear United, Thank you. Thank you for letting me "have a pleasant flight". The truth is, there is no way I can have a pleasant flight on United airlines because of the excuses. SO MANY EXCUSES. This winter break, I was flying on United airlines from Singapore to San Francisco on a 16 hour  DIRECT  flight. The evening started off okay, my mom and I got boarded and everything seemed okay. Little did we know what was to come because the doom was just beginning. We were sitting in our seats on the plane for a while already, and were wondering what happened. It was just then when the announcement boomed over us. "Hello ladies and gentlemen, thank you for choosing United airlines. Unfortunately, one of our crew members injured himself, and won't be able to make it onto this flight. According to our boss, we are unable to fly directly to SFO with only 3 crew members. We are going to have to make an unplanned stop in Honolulu to get a new crew member on board to he...

       Imagine you are on a really small plane, with really limited leg room, and almost no space to move. Now imagine if some amazing person in front of you decides that they are going to use your limited space, and use it as theirs. Their chair, along with them, slowly moves back, coming at you like some sort of predatory animal.        Reclined.        There goes your minuscule amount of space, the one you cherished like no other. Wow!  you think. What kind of great person would recline their chair INTO my PERSONAL SPACE BUBBLE?        You silently cry.        Now do you see what I'm talking about? Greedy people who decide to be inconsiderate and recline their chair, just to get more space for themselves, without realizing that THEY are taking space away from YOU. That too, imagine it for a 13 hour flight! Ugh.        And if you are the type that does recl...