NCC -- Dealing with plane travel

[Guest guest]

Greetings!

I have had MANY people e-mail me and ask how I did with my plane flights

to/from China.

So---here it goes.

I flew on Korean Air from Denver to San Francisco to Seoul, Korea. This

was done on a Boeing 747-400. The flying time from Denver to Seoul was

17 hours (not including a 1 1/2 hour layover in San Francisco). I

stayed on the plane in SF. As the plane was not even half full during

the long flight, I managed to sleep in the back part of the plane in the

middle section (there were five seats together. I just raised the arm

rests, and slept).

It was weird. I left Denver late on a Sunday night, and arrived in

Seoul two days later (did this by crossing the international date line,

and arriving past midnight). Anyway, after a four hour layover in

Seoul, (and going through customs, and a pre flight luggage check to

board my next flight), I switched to China Airlines, and flew on a

Russian made Tupelov (sp?) 154 (Looks like a Boeing 727). 2 1/2 hours

later, I was in Shenyang, went though customs, and was greeted by

and . By the time I checked in at Denver International, to the

time I cleared customs in Shenyang, 29 hours had past. We went to

and 's, where I SLEPT!

The return was not as bad. I flew from Shenyang to Seoul to San

Francisco to Denver on Korean Airlines, and did not have to get off of

the plane at all (from San Francisco to Denver, no one new was allowed

on the flight, and I was able to clear customs in Denver). Again, I was

lucky enough to be an a near empty flight (except from Shenyang to

Seoul), and managed to sleep in the center section of seats.

Now, what was weird, was that I left Shenyang at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday

(September 20), and arrived in Denver at 6:55 p.m. on Sunday (September

20). I arrived in Denver before I left! (don't forget though, you do

need to add 13 hours to make up for the time difference!)

Anyway, I did manage to sleep (And yes, I brought my own pillow with me

for the LONG flights!

Well, chat later!

J.

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