Seat Karma
Twenty-three hours and fifty five minutes before my flight was due to take off (I'm in England now, btw), I checked in online and got an aisle seat in the exit row, which I was very excited about. That was good news.
The bad news was that my row contained half of a married couple and the whole of their young baby. So, being the generally kind hearted (and modest) soul that I am, I agreed to swap seats so as husband and wife could sit together in the exit row to look after baby. This left me with a minging seat -- j in a non-extra room row that looked like abc defg hjk.
But then, there was good news. One of the World Traveler Plus passengers didn't board, so the cabin crew offered me her seat as a thankyou for having taken a worse seat to help the family out earlier. (World traveller plus is a roomier version of World traveller, which is what BA call standard class).
This, and the food being quite good, made up for the film selection being nadge. I watched Scoop which was passable, but v. poor for a Woody Allen movie. There was also the option of Volver which I'd have liked to have seen but I was never organized enough to start watching near enough the start for it to be worth it.
The bad news was that my row contained half of a married couple and the whole of their young baby. So, being the generally kind hearted (and modest) soul that I am, I agreed to swap seats so as husband and wife could sit together in the exit row to look after baby. This left me with a minging seat -- j in a non-extra room row that looked like abc defg hjk.
But then, there was good news. One of the World Traveler Plus passengers didn't board, so the cabin crew offered me her seat as a thankyou for having taken a worse seat to help the family out earlier. (World traveller plus is a roomier version of World traveller, which is what BA call standard class).
This, and the food being quite good, made up for the film selection being nadge. I watched Scoop which was passable, but v. poor for a Woody Allen movie. There was also the option of Volver which I'd have liked to have seen but I was never organized enough to start watching near enough the start for it to be worth it.