Comments on: A pleasant ride on JetBlue

By: JMike

JMike — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:43:11 +0000

I want a flight attendant to say “Please pay attention to the button that says ‘listen to the flight attendant to find out what this button does’”.

–JMike

p.s. remember the old Billy Crystal bit: “you look maahvelous”? I think he once said “I may say that ‘you look maahvelous’, but You. Look. Maahvelous.” look out:

I may say that “I may say that ‘you look maahvelous’, but you look maahvelous”, but I may say that “you look maahvelous”, but you look maahvelous.

I’m having flashbacks to an old LISP programming assignment on recursion…

By: Ned

Ned — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:58:30 +0000

I want a little button that says “Please listen to the flight attendant to find out what this button does.”

By: Steph

Steph — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:38:05 +0000

why do you need another button to look at? the flight attendant in the beginning announcements tell you to “……..hold the minus button down until the screen goes dark”. probably would serve everyone better if people actually started listening to the announcements these days.

By: Loriland

Loriland — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:37:09 +0000

Many thanks to Ro and AJP for the tips. Don’t you think, though, that an “Off” button would have been a good idea?

By: AJP

AJP — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:36:44 +0000

All the instructions to operate the TV’S (on/off/brightness/sound, etc…) appear on channel 13.
or you can ask a Flight Attendant how to!

By: Ro

Ro — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:23:41 +0000

to Loriland re turning off tv..just hold the minus button down (on the brightness button)..

By: Loriland

Loriland — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:52:48 +0000

I just flew JetBlue last week for the first time, too! It was a short flight — Boston to Buffalo, and I was similarly pleasantly surprised by getting to channel surf from my seat. I couldn’t find a way to turn off the TV, though. Is there a button I missed? I thought it was strange that you weren’t allowed to stop watching (though why would I ever want to turn off Bravo anyway?); why would that be?

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:47:15 +0000

What no mention of Cafe Presse? http://www.cafepresseseattle.com/

By: Josh Natanson

Josh Natanson — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:43:00 +0000

I flew JetBlue last week for the first time, Boston to Bermuda. Brand spankin’ new E190 jet, polite crew and captain (even invited me into the cockpit when I asked what the plane’s name was and they had to open the window to look). Then we took off and leveled at 5000 feet, circling Logan for an hour.

It turns out our landing gear wouldn’t close (hey, if it has to get stuck in a position, I’ll take down). We landed after burning off fuel, and as we pulled up to our gate they were pulling in a replacement aircraft. Less than 30 minutes later everybody and their baggage were back on their way to Bermuda.

Bummed about being late? Sure, but maintenance problems happen, and they handled it professionally and kept us informed. The impressive thing was getting that replacement plane in place so dang quick. The cabin crew, pilots, and the entire Logan JetBlue customer service staff was in their cleaning and prepping the plane. Pretty impressive.