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2003 Date: 1/18/2003
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Air Tahiti Nui I took a cab separate from the normal tour bus transfer to the airport, hoping to upgrade to business class, but the plane (a new Airbus -300) was completely full. This new jet had a few First Class, some Business Class, and a large Economy Class section. Since it was a new plane, the seats were a bit more comfortable, and each seat had its own flat screen monitor for movies, flight tracking and games. If you get the chance to do an upgrade for $600 from economy, it's worth it. The food, and wine are very good. Best of all, the seats recline almost near horizontal for sleeping.
Flight The just over 8 hour flight departed on time around 10:30pm, to arrive in LAX around 8:30am local time. There is a two hour difference between LAX and Tahiti, so jet lag is not a big factor. During the flight, we were at 37,000 and doing around 530 mph groundspeed. The temperature varied slightly, and at its coldest was about -70 deg. F outside. I thought this was a bit odd, since on the way over, it was only about -50 to -56 deg. F.
LAX Since my flight to Chicago was delayed, I had to do some creative rebooking, but finally made it back to Madison, Wisconsin (to a chilly 20 deg. F) around 8:45pm.
O'Hare Oddly enough, there were a number of WiFi networks in O'Hare. I was able to connect to the Internet from the local Cinnabon shop in one of the terminals.
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