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least load factor, first lie-flat seat<\/h3>\n

i was supposed to go [tooltip title=”” content=”San Francisco” type=”classic” ]SFO[\/tooltip]-[tooltip title=”” content=”Los Angeles” type=”classic” ]LAX[\/tooltip]-[tooltip title=”” content=”Washington DC – Dulles” type=”classic” ]IAD [\/tooltip](and then on to [tooltip title=”” content=”Dubai” type=”classic” ]DXB[\/tooltip]\u00a0and [tooltip title=”” content=”Doha” type=”classic” ]DOH[\/tooltip]). i think at the SFO-LAX flight was oversold so they called me up to the lounge desk and had me speak with a gate agent handling that flight.<\/p>\n

she put me on a direct SFO-IAD flight on a three-class plane, in\u00a0full-fare business<\/em> (not just the upgrade bucket), meaning 150% PQM. (i was number one on the upgrade list for first, but they didn’t run it, and eh, i was totally fine with this arrangement).<\/p>\n

this was the seat map about an hour before departure:<\/p>\n

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as it turns out, this was a one-off flight, i’m guessing for aircraft positioning (they don’t normally fly 777s on that route as far as i can tell), that held mostly people who were victims of a mechanical delay (cancellation?). i overheard a flight attendant say he was called at 4:30 in the morning, and at that time the manifest had 25 people on it.<\/p>\n

in any case, definitely no complaints here, though the way you have to angle your feet to fit into that little pocket especially when you’re in flat mode is a bit awkward. but compared to my next flight (below), it was heaven!<\/p>\n

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longest flight<\/h3>\n

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i normally connect in Europe or East Asia, so this was my longest non-stop: IAD-DXB, twelve and a half hours, 7,069 miles, which i had to do in a middle seat<\/strong> : (on the exact same type of plane i just had with the sweet upgrade). i don’t know what happened to my aisle seat, but my guess is something changed when i got moved to that direct SFO-IAD flight. when i tried to board the computer responded with something along the lines of “PASSENGER NOT FOUND” at which point the agent did a lot of typing and out popped a boarding pass with 24B. i should have complained (DYKWIA?!), but he seemed harried and i got a big undeserved bonus from United earlier in the day (related to the flight mentioned above, not related to the upgrade) so i sucked it up.<\/p>\n

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I apologize for my pale legs.<\/p><\/div>\n

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it wasn’t too bad, especially since it was a long overnight red-eye so i was sort of sleepy and the movie options on the upgraded IFE were pretty decent.<\/p>\n

shortest flight in a widebody plane (maybe even shortest flight in a jet-powered plane?)<\/del><\/h3>\n

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DXB-DOH, 238 miles.\u00a0though this was a continuation of the IAD-DXB, pretty much everyone got off in Dubai so the plane was pretty empty.<\/p>\n

(edit: i’ve done IAD-PHL at 135 miles, in a regional jet)<\/p>\n

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