As we boarded the flight out of JFK last night we were treated to a bit of good and bad news. The flight time would be only 6:20 across to Frankfurt. Less sleep, but an early arrival so more lounge time once we did arrive. Win some, lose some.
The flight was reasonably pleasant and included a couple attempts (mostly unsuccessful) by Tommy to convince folks on board that Fernet Branca is not the devil’s elixir. I am decidedly in the not convinced camp but that didn’t stop me from joining the group in a toast or two.
Upon arrival we headed down to the Welcome Lounge in Frankfurt airport. With a few dozen showers and a pretty nice breakfast spread, the lounge is a great place to finish up a flight and to start your day in Frankfurt. Keeping with my personal time-honored tradition for fighting jetlag, I poured myself a beer from the tap and headed down to the shower room for a refreshing soak.
Back upstairs for another beer, some bacon & eggs and a fresh pretzel and I’m ready to go out and have a great StarMegaDo day!
n.b.- I’m participating in StarMegaDo 2010 all week long. There will be a few posts here as well, but the bulk of my online time will be on www.starmegado.com and twitter,com/starmegado. Follow over there for some great stories and adventures. Coming up later this afternoon, we climb around inside an LH A380 and later tonight dinner with executives from Star Alliance and several member airlines.
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The twitter.com/star link isn’t working.
Link fixed…thanks. http://twitter.com/StarMegaDo.