This is a Trip Report from the Economy cabin
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This was the start of a road trip starting in SF and ending in LV, there are 4 of us in the group, Husband and wife Ken and Michelle, Sadie and myself - Ed. This was the first time using the new virgin check-in at T3 and it was so smooth and easy, a joy to use, even the bag drop seemed quicker. After a quick breakfast and shopping it was on to boarding. we were sat in the middle of economy, at this time I should point out that M is not a good flyer so we had to play various games during taxi and take-off to keep her mind occupied.
All was the normal great service that I've experienced in the past with the drinks and dinner service. It all got a bit interesting just after the crew had cleared the remnants of the meal. Then an announcement came on asking for any doctors or medical staff to make themselves known to the crew immediately, as both M and S are nurse managers in the UK they made themselves known, the crew said they would let them know depending on who else responded, about 30 sec later they came back and asked them to help as there was no one else on board. So after about 30mins they were back and apparently it was a passenger in premium economy who had passed out and couldn't be wakened, so all they had to do was check his vitals and give him oxygen and calm the crew down! They said that the FSM had told them to come up to Upper later for a few drinks, but they didn't feel like it! More free drinks and they didn't want to take them up!
About hr later the FSM came looking for them and invited us all to come up to Upper for the rest of the flight!! As soon as she said me and S grabbed our bags and followed her so fast we almost fell over each other. Now for someone who has only gone economy it was like walking into another world, we put our bags down on the HUGE seats/beds and then seat at the bar and proceed to poured the biggest measure of alcohol I've seen outside of the bar in the US. Anyway we sat there for most of the flight drinking and eating some fresh bacon sandwiches, K and I did debate going back to economy and seeing how much we could get for them but decided against that as it might cause another in flight emergency! We then took our seats for landing and all too soon it was over,
It was so nice seeing how different it is up that end of the plane and the final nice part was getting off the plane ahead of everyone else while seeing the flight crew keep everyone else back until all in Upper was gone at least I now know why it takes so long to get of once the plane has landed. As a final thank you from the FSM we did get a couple of bottles of champagne. Which were put to good use later on the road trip, but that is another story!
