Madness at RDU - Trip Report

The Bill Mattocks wrote:

Agreed - RJ's are mostly icky-poo. Although I have had a couple
of FC seats in the HP RJ700's that were quite nice. Overhead
space sucks, though.

To follow up on an earlier discussion about the size of seats in an RJ,
I took a tape measure on my last trip to confirm the measurements listed
in the airlines' web sites.

The space between the two armrests on a Comair CRJ was 17.5 inches. The
space between the armrests on a Delta coach seat in a B-737-200 was
slightly less at 17 inches even. The seat pitch in the CRJ was 31
inches, and the seat pitch in the 737 was 30 inches in the row I was
seated in. These measurements were all identical to those shown in
their web site. (Showing truth in advertising.)

Therefore, the seats in the CRJ are actually slightly larger than those
in that particular model of 737. Their web site shows that the seat
pitch on the 737 varies between 30 inches and 32 inches, so you could
get a seat with a greater pitch on the 737.

The major differences I noted between the two aircraft were that the
bottom seat cushion on the CRJ was very thin, and the hard surface of
the seat pan made it uncomfortable to sit in one position for any length
of time. Further, the curvature of the walls meant that my shoulder had
less room when sitting in the window seat, in comparison to the 737.

On 21 Sep 2003 18:14:19 -0700, (The Bill Mattocks) wrote:

For me to actually fly home on Friday and make my connections, I'd be
leaving the customer site at 1, 2, or maybe 3 in the afternoon.
They're paying for a full day's work. Not fair to the customer. So,
I usually fly home on Saturdays now.

You could work extra on Thursday, to make up for the hours lost on
Friday. But I guess you're the kind of guy, who will put in a full
day, regardless of how much extra he had done in the days before.

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Don't be sorry to email me.

(Jesper Lauridsen) wrote in message ...
You could work extra on Thursday, to make up for the hours lost on
Friday. But I guess you're the kind of guy, who will put in a full
day, regardless of how much extra he had done in the days before.

Sometimes I teach - like next week in Irvine, CA. I can't teach late
one day to leave early the next - just the way it goes.

And yes, I just put in 12 hours at work today. I have some more work
to do tonight from my hotel room. I don't think that entitles me to
come in late tomorrow - just the way it goes.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks