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Catching the Great American Eclipse at 35,000 Feet

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Re: Catching the Great American Eclipse at 35,000 Feet

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post #116

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That was Venus. not Mercury.

It was neither. It was Regulus. Mercury was further away (still relativelly close) and Venus was much further away.

Amazing how one gets downvoted for stating simple, trivially verifiable facts.

https://i.imgur.com/VYqvYHAr.png

http://www.americaneclipse2017.org/maps/the-sky-during-total...

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/observing-news...

Re: Catching the Great American Eclipse at 35,000 Feet

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post #66

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Except... it happened to me. Maybe because I bought through American Airlines, since it was AA operated by Alaska.

For future reference, you can look up Alaska iterinary by AA e-ticket number and change seats directly on Alaskas website. I've done it a number of times

That didn't work for me. I feel like everyone is assuming I didn't go through all possible ways to try and change my seats before accepting my fate...

Re: Catching the Great American Eclipse at 35,000 Feet

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post #115

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Yeah most of their planes are disgusting and I can't stand their branding. It's such a shame that they acquired Virgin America. I loved that airline. I wish we lived in a world where that acquisition had been the other way around.

Why are their planes "disgusting"? I fly a lot, both short haul and long haul, and I can't see any quality difference (is that what you mean?) between any planes from any carriers. They are all the same. Mind you, there are differences in seat pitch, lack of USB ports and so on, but I would not call any plane more disgusting than any other plane.

I primarily fly Alaska or Virgin America. Virgin planes are much newer, cleaner and ask around beautiful pieces of design. The Alaska planes are run down, less well kept and have a ugly design to begin with. Flying Virgin is like traveling inside a first generation iPod.
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