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- 4AA3615 - First - Dallas-Fort worth to Fargo - Embraer ERJ-175
After spending some time in the Centurion Lounge (see AA3347), my family and I headed to our gate to catch the flight home.
Lufthansa A330
Icelandair 757
By the time we got to the gate, boarding had commenced, and we were able to board the plane right away.
As boarding finished, the captain made an announcement that we had a delay. We ended up sitting on the tarmac for about 40-50 minutes with nothing to do. The Wi-fi wasn't available, so you couldn't stream movies to your device using the AA app. It was very boring and overall sucked. Finally, at 3:05 the doors closed, and the plane pushed back five minutes later.
Taxi
We were cleared to depart from Runway 36R. Our flight time was to be two hours and seven minutes.
Qantas A380 from Sydney
Terminal D and the Grand Hyatt
Terminal B and the stinger concourse
When we had reached our cruising altitude of 36,000 feet, the flight attendant handed out warm towels to everyone.
Drink orders were then taken and everyone was given a ramekin of nuts tat had almonds, cashews, walnuts, along with some other things.
For dinner, one of the choices was an Asian-style wrap. I don't remember the other, but my mother and I both chose the wrap. It came with a side salad that was spicing and a brownie as well. The wrap had some rice, sauce, various vegetables like carrots and peppers. While I didn't care for the salad, the main was pretty filling, and the brownie was yummy.
Trays were cleared, and the sky was getting darker slowly.
For the rest of the flight I browsed through the in flight magazine and looked at my phone since I couldn't get the personal device entertainment to work, again (see AA3418).
The sun was beginning to set through the cabin.
We started descending at about 5:00 PM.
Approaching Fargo
Sanford Hospital
We flew by the city, and did a right turn to land on Runway 18.
Landing
When we arrived at the terminal, there was a delayed Delta flight to MSP at our gate. We were forced to wait around a half hour just for the plane to push back. Once again, there was nothing to do. Finally, we pulled in next to a Delta 737-900ER
Hi Aaro, nice report as usual! It feels weird to see an Icelandair 757 in DFW---what's weirder is that at one point WOW, Icelandair, and American were all operating daily nonstops to KEF from DFW...talk about a low-yielding bloodbath. Now with WOW out of the picture, I'd hoped FI would stick around to compete with AA so it's too bad they pulled out...AA is now charging obscene amounts for DFW-KEF for much of the summer. Anyway...sorry for that long side note lol
Anyway, back to the subject at hand! haha
Ugh, that is the worst! In my experience with AA, the FAs don't usually take much initiative to do any kind of service during longer tarmac delays like that. While almost every time I've had tarmac delays on DL they would do a water run in Y and full drink service in F, which I think is a nice gesture when you're just sitting there with nothing to do. May as well have a cocktail! ?
Did you at least get a PDB?
Looks decent for a regional jet, though they could offer something a bit more substantial. I assume they don't have ovens on E-jets, or at least most of them, but they could offer more than a wrap for an almost 3 hour flight. Granted, I guess there's the warm nuts service, and appetizer, and a dessert, so all together it's probably a decent amount of food.
Thanks for sharing!