Musings at Altitude

I was very fortunate today to be upgraded to Business Class on the flight from Denver to Washington Dulles.  We were on a United 767, and the plane we were on had been recently reconfigured to have seats facing both forwards and backwards in Business Class.

I was one of the lucky ones that got the rear facing seats, and I must admit, I haven’t experienced air flight from that direction since the mid 90’s when I’d fly in the passenger compartment of a C-5 on the top deck during an international deployment. 

Then and now, it just seems backwards.  I’d look out the windows and the ground would be moving the wrong direction.  I’d seek that sensation of takeoff or landing and the nose and the tail were reversed and the mind would be telling me something was wrong when in reality everything was right.  And most importantly, during the boarding process, I’d see the back of people as they boarded rather than the fronts!

I must admit, it was a great flight and the cabin crew was tremendous.  Though everything else was backwards, the service from United was as always top notch.