Flight from USA to London

I am writing this from 38,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean. We are two hours away from London. The in flight entertainment just ended, and time has started passing very slowly.

My flight from Austin to Chicago was 30 minutes late which meant by the time I landed at O'Hare my flight to London was already boarding. I took a second to run to the bathroom and then boarded the plane. I was in such a rush that I was very surprised when I walked onto the plane and saw how big it was. First and business class looked really nice, each seat had lots of room. I will enjoy flying business class the rest of my travels. But for this segment I am in coach. I expected to have more leg room than on a regular plane and for the seat to recline farther. Instead, they just put more seats on the plane. The flight is less than half full, if that is a normal occurrence it would be nice for American Airlines to take out some of the seats to make it a little roomier. In coach, each row has two seats on each end and a middle section of 5 seats. Since the flight is so empty a lot of passengers traveling alone have a whole row to themselves. The families are still sitting together, but I would spread out if I were them. I have a window seat and have had my legs up on the seat next to me for about 2 hours. If the plane were full it would be miserable, but as it is there is plenty of room.

I usually board a plane scanning for a blanket and pillow, but on this flight each seat had a new blanket, pillow, and headset waiting. That was nice. Once we were in the air we had two brunch options, omelet or cheese crepe. I chose the omelet and it was my first ever hot meal on an airplane. It was tasty, but small. Luckily they also gave us some crackers and other snacks or I never would have made it to dinner (which I am hoping is soon).

Each seat has a little TV in the seat back in front of it and a remote control in the armrest. The TV is touch screen, so I don't think a remote control is necessary as my hand is 2 feet away from the TV at all times. They have some music channels (mostly elevator music), TV channels (have some TV shows, movies, and cartoons), and a flight map that shows you where you are, how long till you get there, etc.

I watched Stranger than Fiction, 3 episodes of Three and a Half Men, 2 episodes of The Simpsons, and an episode of Everybody Hates Chris.

All in all a very good flight.