I know several flight attendants, and I understand their confusion! For weight and balance purposes, they have to do a passenger count before a flight can take off. If the manifest listed three filled seats, but that flight attendant’s passenger count didn’t match up, they have to locate the discrepancy before takeoff…

The really important thing to remember about Comfort Plus (Delta) and Main Cabin Extra (American) vs. Economy Plus (United) - Economy Plus passengers still have to pay for booze, while the other two get it as a complimentary bonus and perk! (Though, technically, this is really only valuable to those who imbibe…

Basic Economy are not Revenue Standby. Those are paid passengers who have missed a previous flight for some reason - or are trying to get out early - and who are on the list as a standby for the current flight.

I believe you forgot to mention the biggest downside to Basic Economy: the fallout from when a flight is oversold.

In my experience, which isn’t exactly extensive, many airlines upgrade Economy passengers into whatever version of Economy Plus seats that are unsold, then put the Basic Economy passengers into those Economy seats. Some airlines will ask the passengers before they upgrade them, giving them a chance to stay next to…

Correct, I was being specific, using my experiences. I’m glad to know ahead of time that there are airlines that have more restrictive rules, so I can plan should it come up. Thanks!

I completely agree with you! Unfortunately, the wording Delta (the carrier I’m most familiar with) uses allows for the possibility of someone having an oxygen concentrator for use, so long as they don’t use it during the flight:

Unless an exit row isn’t a bulkhead. You can still put things under the seat in front of an exit row, it just has to be ALL THE WAY under that seat, leaving the walkway from aisle to exit clear in case of emergency need.

Not necessarily - Chromecast has a “guest mode” that is supposed to allow people near it to detect it and cast to it without being on the same WiFi network. In practice, I can’t get it to work when I’m using my iPhone. I just tested it, verifying the settings are configured as instructions indicate necessary. I think…

In fairness, Mesa and PSA shouldn’t actually get any of the blame, when you look at how regional airlines work. The mainline (Delta, American, United, Alaska) partners sell the tickets, and it is those partners who determine how many tickets they will sell. Mesa and PSA don’t tell American “You know, you should…

I have both, and mostly agree with jsimon - Roku is my preference in almost every way, for regular personal use. The most common reason for me to prefer the way a Chromecast works is when someone wants to show something from a service the device-owner doesn’t have personal access to.

Depends on several things. If you’re in the row in front of an exit, or the last row of seats, often the seats won’t recline.

Yup! Typically this happens on flights operated by a regional airline partner. If your flight is on an aircraft with screens available for individual viewing, my experience with Delta flights is that the inflight entertainment is only available via the built-in screens provided, and not over your personal device via…

Personally, I call BS on the whole “faster switching between devices” selling point. I bought some Powerbeats Pro, my brother has AirPods, and we’ve discussed our experiences. He and I both have MacBook Pro computers and iPhones. We also both have to manually go and tell whichever device we want to use to connect to…

Personally, I call BS on the whole “faster switching between devices” selling point. I bought some Powerbeats Pro, my…

You get 10 points for using nadir. And a star. (The points are useless, but I was happy to see the word. I’m sure that one of the writers here wasn’t, but that’s their problem.)

Lids would be great! I can’t speak for that airline, but none I’ve flown on USA-domestically offer lids or even have them available upon request. Maybe some do, but not airlines I’ve flown on. I haven’t checked any international flights.

Is the best approach to check in with the gate crew when I’m waiting to board, or would they even know?

Mostly just curious if I missed something here...

My first thought upon reading your reply is actually a memory. I can’t speak for all of the scooter companies, but on each of the the 3 occasions I have used Lime a scooter I was given a warning, either printed on the scooter or in the app (I forget which), to not ride on sidewalks.

Incidents involving malfunctions and broken devices are particularly unfortunate and typically beyond “user error” in reason. However, I have a hard time giving a lot of sympathy to the people whose incident reports mention the device was unable to make a sharp turn or go over a “2-4 inch curve walk” (I suspect “curb”…