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Aug. 1st, 2017 05:14 pmAlthough our flights back from Helsinki will be in IcelandAir Saga (business/first) class thanks to Alaska Airlines frequent-flyer miles, the outbound trip we purchased in Economy. IcelandAir has an offer where you get to "bid" on an upgraded Saga or Economy Comfort seat. (Economy Comfort is three seats for two people, with the middle seat blocked out.) A few days ago I put in bids and yesterday I learned the news: I hadn't bid enough for Saga, but both legs of the trip got upgrades to Economy Comfort. Now this roughly doubled the cost of the outbound trip, but it's still less than the E+ seats would have originally cost to purchase, so that seems to be a win to us. We pointed out to Kuma Bear that we more or less paid as much for his "seat" as for Lisa and me put together.
I called IcelandAir this afternoon to check on our seat assignments and to make sure that we were on the left side of the plane. (Because of Lisa's bad left ear, she prefers to sit with her left ear against the outside of the plane so she can hear me without having to turn her head.) I checked the assignments against what SeatGuru says the cabin arrangements are for our two flights (PDX-KEF and KEF-HAM), and I'm a bit puzzled, because according to those, we might actually be in Saga class seats. Not that I'd complain about that, of course. However, SeatGuru's maps may be out of date. Another nice thing sabout the EC seats is that they have power outlets, too.
The opening leg is SFO-PDX to get to the IcelandAir gateway, and that's a 737 that's showing packed, with me and Lisa in 30AB. That's not going to be fun, but I've done the flight a lot of times and I'll survive. Glad I've been continuing to lose weight.
Packing tonight. We're trying to not over-pack if we can avoid it, but it's a challenge, since we have to do things like fit the medium tripod in with my stuff, for instance. We'd like to leave room to carry things back. OTOH, since the return trip is in Saga class (with an extra checked bag each), if we must do so, we can buy some more luggage in Finland and carry the extras back that way. We did that on the Japan trip, and got a surprisingly good piece of luggage in a back street in Tokyo on the way to the Kato model train factory outlet store.
One more day at home. We leave tomorrow as soon after Noon as I can manage with the Day Jobbe.
I called IcelandAir this afternoon to check on our seat assignments and to make sure that we were on the left side of the plane. (Because of Lisa's bad left ear, she prefers to sit with her left ear against the outside of the plane so she can hear me without having to turn her head.) I checked the assignments against what SeatGuru says the cabin arrangements are for our two flights (PDX-KEF and KEF-HAM), and I'm a bit puzzled, because according to those, we might actually be in Saga class seats. Not that I'd complain about that, of course. However, SeatGuru's maps may be out of date. Another nice thing sabout the EC seats is that they have power outlets, too.
The opening leg is SFO-PDX to get to the IcelandAir gateway, and that's a 737 that's showing packed, with me and Lisa in 30AB. That's not going to be fun, but I've done the flight a lot of times and I'll survive. Glad I've been continuing to lose weight.
Packing tonight. We're trying to not over-pack if we can avoid it, but it's a challenge, since we have to do things like fit the medium tripod in with my stuff, for instance. We'd like to leave room to carry things back. OTOH, since the return trip is in Saga class (with an extra checked bag each), if we must do so, we can buy some more luggage in Finland and carry the extras back that way. We did that on the Japan trip, and got a surprisingly good piece of luggage in a back street in Tokyo on the way to the Kato model train factory outlet store.
One more day at home. We leave tomorrow as soon after Noon as I can manage with the Day Jobbe.
