Long time between posts.... a very big project came up that vampired all my time away!
So, the United Express Embraer service from SFO to YVR. A big come down after a lovely flight across the ditch from Sydney that's for sure.
First of all, the US was a big shock. People paying no attention to social distancing, honestly if you didn't have to get temperature checked and provide all the Covid paperwork and people weren't wearing masks, you would not even know there was a pandemic raging around them.... Anyway we bit our tongues and just stayed away from people as much as we could.
We flew on the Y+ seating up to YVR and apart from one emergency flight on an EasyJet Airbus with brand new 'slimline' (aka concrete) seats installed in it, I've never sat on such hard uncomfortable seats.
No service due to 'Covid', but funnily enough first class still received service. Clearly 2 feed in front of Y+ there was no pandemic!
The biggest let down though was the blase crew. Yes I know they are contracted out to SkyWest but they still represent United and anyone who didn't know the business arrangement United has with SkyWest would assume they were United crew and a United aircraft).
They giggled through the safety announcement, you couldn't hear a thing through the peals of laughter, then after slamming down a few refreshments in First Class, they came and sat directly in front of us in Y+, took their masks off, had a good old chat for an hour and ate and drank in front of everyone.
Now normally I would say something, but I was jet lagged, irritated by the SFO experience and didn't trust myself to remain polite. So instead we took photos of them and sent them when we landed to United 'Customer Care' who did not care at all when they got back to us a couple of weeks later.
So a very average flight, I was happy to get off into a completely deserted YVR terminal!