Famous people seen (or even met) whilst flying or lounging

[sudoer]

Interesting the CEO in cost cutting Row 4. Certain signals emitting

Wouldn't be cost cutting... moving from Row 4 to Row 1 doesn't cost anything if the seat is unsold. Probably an optics thing I guess.

 

[Happy Dude]

His legs wouldn’t reach the ground.

Imma guess he also was tired of explaining that he wasn't a UM.

 

[dairyfloss]

JB (VA) used hop in the jump seat. I though I read that AJ would do that also on domestic hops?

He was sat in front of me in J on a SYD-ADL (IIRC) segment a few years ago, and I think even displaced my seat selection in the process, so mustn’t have been very consistent on that one!

 

[GDSman]

Michael Rowland (ABC) in the QF pub in SYD Dom just now…

 

[Melburnian1]

Does row 4 still have knee room like in the Olden Days?

Still, she’s likely aware of the optics, given how little it matters for a 1.5hr flight (even if that 1.5hr flight was a 1hr flight on the exact same aircraft 20yrs ago ).

It may have been a bit more than 20 years ago, but SYD to MEL from departing the gate to arrival at the destination gate was once allowed 75 minutes southbound and 70 minutes northbound for Ansett and TAA.

Today although it varies, typical times start to stop for JQd, QFd and VAd are 95 minutes southbound and 85 minutes northbound.

 

[Forg]

It may have been a bit more than 20 years ago, but SYD to MEL from departing the gate to arrival at the destination gate was once allowed 75 minutes southbound and 70 minutes northbound for Ansett and TAA.

Today although it varies, typical times start to stop for JQd, QFd and VAd are 95 minutes southbound and 85 minutes northbound.

Yeah … I’ve been working for the same company for 22yrs now, and probably about 18yrs ago we were much smaller & they actually put unwashed developers like me in front of customers … and SYD-MEL trip to put me in front of customers that I recall was under an hour from push-back to everyone getting up and scrabbling for their carry-on.

Knowing that different cars I’ve had have different optimal speeds for fuel economy … the prior one did it’s best at ~95km/h, the current one is best at ~115km/h, I’m not super-surprised that aircraft can use a tad less fuel if they fly at a speed that gets them to Melbourne 20 minutes later. Especially when they’re pretty much all the exact same aircraft, 737-800’s!