Super Sad True Airline Story
Gary Shteyngart flew on American Airlines. This is what happened.
You, American Airlines, should no longer be flying across the Atlantic. You do not have the know-how. You do not have the equipment. And your employees have clearly lost interest in the endeavor. Like the country whose name graces the hulls of your flying ships, you are exhausted and shorn of purpose. You need to stop.
Flight 121 from Paris to New York began on a clear autumn afternoon. It ended over 30 hours later. For those of us without miles, it is probably still going…
Read A Trans-Atlantic Trip Turns Kafkaesque in the NYT.
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October 2nd, 2012 at 11:16
My friend Patty got the chance to meet Gary Shteyngart while he was in Paris and he mentioned that he’d like to have his novel translated to Tagalog and to visit Manila one day. He also loves adobo!
October 3rd, 2012 at 15:25
heathrow is not that bad.
October 4th, 2012 at 17:09
If Heathrow is the worst airport, where does that put NAIA Terminal 1? As for the sorry state of American Airlines, our airlines come off looking better in comparison: at least our airplanes have not been reported to have loosened seats in midflight (happened thrice on American).