Trips to DC usually start with a pre-dawn wakeup in California, screaming up the 101 to SFO ahead of the morning rush, mixing it up with perfumed/cologned business types in the security line, and discovering that you’re 12th on an upgrade list 80 names long, with 2 seats remaining in 1st class, making you wonder what the hell is 1K good for when SFO is your home market.
Not today. I took the late flight, 3.50pm departure. A morning of work in Palo Alto, ran a seminar at Stanford at noon, lunch with a colleague, then 2pm ride to airport. Got the upgrade, seat 2D on a 757. Seatguru is right about the equipment box under the seat in front, but its not a deal-breaker. Takeoff from 28R and a sharp right back onto the usual east-bound departure route over the Bay, Oakland (the SFO8 DP, with a 110 degree turn from the runway heading to 030, and I was on the right-hand side of the plane).
Lovely late afternoon views of the Sierra, with some snow cover starting to appear, Half Dome marking Yosemite Valley about two valleys to our south.
There is no in-seat power in the United 757s (hasn’t been for ages, at least in the 757s I’ve been getting out of SFO), and no channel 9 on this flight. The pilots did pipe through WFAN coverage of the last game of the World Series once we got, say, about an hour from Dulles, on ch9. Uneventful approach and landing, rolled out, no reverse thrust.
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