Posted on Saturday, February 06, 2010 12:45 PM
Well, we bit the bullet, shafted Finnair and go with KLM instead. Not because we like KLM very much, but because we pretty much have to if we want to avoid paying up the wazoo for our April trip.
Finnair went back and forth with the return date (April 24! No, 26! No, 24 again. Waitaminute, we don't fly on 24, so you'll have to retun on the 23rd.) and suddenly couldn't acommodate the 13th person in our group for a low price anymore.
So we had to turn to KLM, which offers our flight for only slightly more money and as a result, we return on the 25th.
The flight to KIX will be a brand-spanking new Boeing 777, probably with all the latest gadgets custom to today's standards in flight entertainment.
Think personal screens, digital video on demand, video games and a reasonable amount of leg room, tailored to the taller persons that we are today.
The flight back to AMS however, will be a clunker from the past in the form of a 747, probably with all the latest gadgets in flight entertainment custom back in the 1980's.
Think heavy-ass off-colour CRT-screens hanging from the ceiling every 10 meters that wobble every time you hit a small airpocket, an even more heavy-ass off-colour CRT projector in the middle, an in-flight movie played from Video-8 tapes, crampt seating without leg room and carpeting that was totally hot in the seventies.
I think now is the time to try and find that video accelerator for my netbook and later on to make sure my DSlite will be fully charged before we catch that flight home.
Cheers, K.
# re: On Royal Dutch Airlines
2/7/2010 8:32 AM by
KLM is currently upgrading all their 747 to their most modern layout yet. This should all be done by the time you're going to fly though. So expect a nice and decent flight if KLM is to be believed :)
# re: On Royal Dutch Airlines
2/7/2010 8:58 PM by
Hm, I hope you're right. I won't hold my breath just yet, but that would be great.