Just a quick update via the WordPress iPhone app. I’m travelling to San Diego for Comic Con, and on a lark (and bOINGbOING’s recommendation) I decided to fly Virgin American. Ho-lee shit. How do I love thee, let me count the ways:
1) In seat AC adapters, so my laptop never ran out of juice.
2) In flight WiFi. Nuff said.
3) Brand spanking new planes.
4) In seat meal ordering via their onboard LAN. I didn’t try this one, because I wasn’t hungry, but I sure will on the flight back.
5) $300 round trip from JFK.
And to top it all off, great, foggy, 60-degree weather on my smoke break during a two-hour layover in San Francisco (few direct flights and the cramped seating that is endemic to all airlines are the only downsides so far, but honestly, I’m not really minding too much). In all, a fantastic flying experience all around. This cranky traveller is very impressed, and not so cranky this time around. Well done, Sir Richard Branson.