The Hawaiian Air crew were great, even tho told to be at SJ airport "before 5am, 2 1/2hrs before 730am flight" and counter staff did not arrive until after 6am!!
Got to "pre v" TSA incompetents, but what a waste of time.
Long walk to gate without enough gate seats!!
And all the infants and me in the far far back of a drab 767 that so needs the Famous Floral partitions!!
I got a window seat to rest my head on the wall instead of headflopping.
Great aisle companion, a private jet pilot, not those don't talk to me arrogant commercial pilots like the last person I sat next too.
I did pee at home and should have peed at SJ airport; 5 hours sitting without 265 people all being able to just pee is a major problem.
Now for train travel, in case you think it is ancient history.
A few years ago I rode First Class on the Chunnel train. We all sat ,parked outside London, with no fans even. No a/c available. All dressed up and sweating like a ,,, so miserable. Finally the train engines came on and we started moving and going thru the English Channel tube. Nothing to see but gorgeous train interior. That is why I prefer the old reliable big Hovercrafts on the surface.
Once in Fraaance, we stopped again, no fans and sweating in Spring like Crazy. No fans and typical Fr. "no no a/c" in very warm and humid weather. Waiting and waiting ,for what!? Finally at Gare du Nord and Paris 2 star hotel that "we gave away your reservation." Standing in lobby for an hour to show desk manager some True Grit to finally get a shabby room. So besides Amtrak always being late, pulling over on rented train tracks for dumb freight trains probably with one skin frack oil, that would be my worst train travel in a more civilized country.
My best train experience every was the SF to LA-SD "Daylight" and dining car with night sleeper "Lark" train on the California coast, such a beautiful route!! First Class service from mostly black staff, beautiful clean cars and spacious cabins YOU CAN WALK AROUND are a Huge improvement over jet addict travel. The train owner said it did not pay enough to continue service, but we should not let one biz make such large mass transit decisions. Nor the sold out current State Legislature.
Just my experience and opinion.
