This is a Trip Report from the Economy cabin
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It was the first time I had gone direct - normally I route through LAX or SFO, and because of the size of my companions wallets & purses we all sat in Y class for this flight.
Check In
Oh the Joy of Silver!
The Y class queue was very big - my friends who checked in later took 1 hour 15 minutes to get through.
Fortunately for me and one other we were of course able to use the PE queue which took less than 5 minutes.
Would get an excellent rating, but for the queue my firends had to endure!
Boarding/flight
Boarding was pretty much on time, and as we were sitting near the very back of the plane (which I pre-booked), we were soon on.
Seat 62K was mine for this flight, which is at the back end (2-4-2) , and had some nice room to the side for bags.
Seat pitch did seem smaller than last time I flew in Y class (on that occassion an A343), and a word of warning, seat 62H has a small IFE box underneath the seat in front (we were on G-VGAL) - I'll put a note on the seat ratings.
IFE of course was Nova for this trip, which was working fine!
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There were some excellent views of Salt Lake City area, which I've missed on recent flights
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Service on flight was a drink service followed by food service, followed by a snack (chicken or cheese panini) and finally sandwiches before landing
Food was fine on this flight, and portions were generous.
Service was pretty good on the flight, with plenty of water/juice rounds, and I was always asked for a re-fill of tea/coffee.
By the way FSM did not introduce themselves on outbound or inbound - do they try and see Silvers in Y class?
Landing was smooth - I do enjoy LAS - due to the parallel runways a Southwest 737 was taking off side-by-side as we landed - great views!
Being at the back of the plane we were almost last off, and off to the joy of immigration. The queue was not as bad as I've had in MCO/SFO, but still not very good.
However, on the positive side the immigration officer was great fun (which was a first) and wound me up about my criminal activity whilst her computer was processing pictures/finger prints - I almost fell for it until she smiled a big smile!
They also put a family with two young children to the front of the queue after about 20 minutes queueing - which was very good of them - the children were behaving well - but were tired.
I'll leave you with some pics of Vegas. We stayed at New York New York this year, which is nowhere near as nice as the MGM across the road.
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It has a very small pool, with the occassional wiff of sewage in the air [:0]
and some pics from our helicopter trip on 'sundance helicopters' to the Grand Canyon - excellent fun!
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Excellent views from helicopter of the strip
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and the airport
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The rest of Vegas is a poker/roulette/blackjack/jack daniels blur!
Hope you enjoyed!
Rich.