More seasonal American Dreamliner flying, this time on the other route between New Zealand and Texas, with AKL-IAH being served by Air New Zealand with the 777-300ER.
Server: Solo
Airline: American Airlines
Aircraft: Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner
Origin: Auckland Airport, Auckland, New Zealand (AKL)
Destination: Dallas Forth Worth International Airport, Grapevine, Texas (DFW)
Flight Number: AA34
Route: NZAA-KDFW
Seat: 15A (Premium Economy)
Time En Route: 13 Hours 36 Minutes
Ready to taxi. Initial impressions of the seat itself are promising, albeit because this is one of American’s newer, lower-density, high-premium 787-9s configured with routes such as DFW-AKL and DFW-BNE in mind.
Deplaned at Gate D23, while our aircraft gets turned around for a flight to Seoul as AA281. Overall, the premium economy product was pretty good for a U.S. airline and if given the choice, I’d probably take it over economy on most other carriers.
I’ve got a very, very long list of reasons why I fly solo. To spare us being here all day, I’ll just give the first three:
I have a life outside of this. Between college, trying to find a job for next year, and studying for the LSAT, I neither have the time nor energy to devote to dealing with people on any of the servers.
I try to replicate my flights as faithfully to the real deal as possible. That means same flight plan, same gates, same time en route almost to the minute. Flying solo, I can more easily control variables such as wind and temperature, which can either increase or decrease flight time in a given direction.
That some pretty good reasons especially the 2nd one, I like to try and recreate things as perfect as possible but also want to get rewarded for what I flew
I understand that, Wouldn’t u want to get the most of your moneys worth by using the Multiplayer instead of only using the Liveries/Aircrafts. But its your Money, you are allowed to do what u want with it and i respect that.