First let me say that our trip to Costa Rica was effortless. If the purpose of air travel is to get you from place to place safely and on time, then US Airways gets an “A”. Off on time, landing only a few minutes late some 5 hours after we took off. By comparison, it Cortez more than a few weeks to get here from nearby Cuba in the fifteen hundreds. how far we have come. And we are not here to torture the native population but to enjoy their hospitality and put lots of colons ($$) in their pockets.
Getting back to “first class”. It does not exist on US Airways. I used 120,000 miles to get our two first class tix for the trip and what did we get for our five hour flight…wide, but very tight seating, no movie (Nada on US Air anymore as we are told as of November 2008), a meal that was a sandwich and a oily pasta salad, bad wine in a plastic cup. But the flight attendant was very nice.
In a small first class cabin for five hours you get to notice everything that is going around you and, if you have friendly people, even a chance to chat with someone other than your seatmate (the lovely Miss Paula famous nature photographer). We talked quite a bit with two couples from Eureka California who were embarking on a 14 day cruise through the Panama canal and Central America…sounded like a fabulous trip but they were likely to be among the youngest people on the voyage and they were in their late forties or early fifties
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