Mrs Hull and I managed to get a cheapish deal ex DUB to Las Vegas (£1300pp in Business) for the new year, so having flown to Dublin on Boxing day and spending the night in the Radisson DUB we arose at 0700 to make our way back to the terminal which took around 30 minutes as while we were checking out we missed a shuttle, although the terminal was not very far away at all it was very cold so we decided to wait for the next one.
Check in was a breeze and we were soon on our way to the lounge for coffee and biscuits, we were collected at 1000 by a DL representative who led us down the US pre clearance which is a great idea, which entailed inserting your passport into a machine much like the ones you use to check in, confirm your details via a touch screen and retrieve a slip of paper to show to an agent, Mrs Hull decided to use a different machine she ended up being shown to a different line to me, I had a nice chatty lady who seemed more interested in the Sons of Anarchy hoodie I was wearing whilst Mrs Hull had the full "welcome to America" questioning at one of the CBP booths, some 30 minutes late she emerged and promptly hit the big red angry face on the "how did we do" survey machine.
We boarded straight away and were directed to our seats 1+2A no polite welcome and certainly no AU recognition as others have received even though it states "VS Gold" on the boarding pass.
Champagne offered and accepted, refills too that was about as good as it got the crew had no spark and did not work well as a team, the food was bland and dry (we both had Chicken) Mrs Hulls cocktail never came, the best course was the ice cream which I enjoyed with some more bubbles
As we were in for a long day I decided to try and get some sleep
Now as you can see the seat is not very wide and when you recline into the sleep mode it feels like what I can only describe as "being lowered into a coffin" with you feet in a tight recess and shoulders pinned at either side it is hard to move around but once I got comfy I managed nearly three hours sleep.
Before landing into JFK we were offered Pizza which yet again was nothing to write home about.
The seatbelt sign was on for nearly the whole flight even though we encountered little or no turbulence and heaven forbid if you stood up whilst one of the flight crew left the cockpit for a comfort break, the cabin crew would block the aisle with their carts and glare at anyone who moved.
We landed on time and Taxied to T4 where our plane to LAS would take us from, it was nice to not have to go through Immigration, we thought we would try our luck and visit the JFK Clubhouse but it was closed so off to the Delta Sky Club.
The flight did what it promised in getting us to JFK but was not a fabulous experience like you get with VS. I would not chose Delta over VS or BA unless a serious saving was on the cards.
Check in was a breeze and we were soon on our way to the lounge for coffee and biscuits, we were collected at 1000 by a DL representative who led us down the US pre clearance which is a great idea, which entailed inserting your passport into a machine much like the ones you use to check in, confirm your details via a touch screen and retrieve a slip of paper to show to an agent, Mrs Hull decided to use a different machine she ended up being shown to a different line to me, I had a nice chatty lady who seemed more interested in the Sons of Anarchy hoodie I was wearing whilst Mrs Hull had the full "welcome to America" questioning at one of the CBP booths, some 30 minutes late she emerged and promptly hit the big red angry face on the "how did we do" survey machine.
We boarded straight away and were directed to our seats 1+2A no polite welcome and certainly no AU recognition as others have received even though it states "VS Gold" on the boarding pass.
Champagne offered and accepted, refills too that was about as good as it got the crew had no spark and did not work well as a team, the food was bland and dry (we both had Chicken) Mrs Hulls cocktail never came, the best course was the ice cream which I enjoyed with some more bubbles
As we were in for a long day I decided to try and get some sleep
Now as you can see the seat is not very wide and when you recline into the sleep mode it feels like what I can only describe as "being lowered into a coffin" with you feet in a tight recess and shoulders pinned at either side it is hard to move around but once I got comfy I managed nearly three hours sleep.
Before landing into JFK we were offered Pizza which yet again was nothing to write home about.
The seatbelt sign was on for nearly the whole flight even though we encountered little or no turbulence and heaven forbid if you stood up whilst one of the flight crew left the cockpit for a comfort break, the cabin crew would block the aisle with their carts and glare at anyone who moved.
We landed on time and Taxied to T4 where our plane to LAS would take us from, it was nice to not have to go through Immigration, we thought we would try our luck and visit the JFK Clubhouse but it was closed so off to the Delta Sky Club.
The flight did what it promised in getting us to JFK but was not a fabulous experience like you get with VS. I would not chose Delta over VS or BA unless a serious saving was on the cards.