Avis du vol entre Mexico City et Washington en classe Affaires avec United

A Quick Trip to Mexico City

This is the return leg of my quick Thanksgiving trip to Mexico City.

Mexico City Airport (MEX)

Mexico City Airport was a bit confusing for my first time departing from there–I wasn't quite sure if there was a fast track lane, but that turned out to be unnecessary since I happened to get to the airport right as there was a lull in passengers and got through very fast.

Then I followed the signs to the various lounges.

Inside where the signs point you is a stair case that takes you to various floors, the United Club is on the top floor.

United Club (MEX)

I was a bit surprised to find out there is a United Club in Mexico City.  I guess UA flies here from all of its hubs except for Denver and there might be some connecting traffic from Avianca flights.

After Thanksgiving, Christmas decorations were in full force.  I half expected to hear Mariah Carey blasting through the lounge.

More Christmas decorations, these were cute.

The United Club is essentially one long room with a buffet and dining area at the end.  The restrooms can be found down a corridor right by the entrance.  In my 45 or so minutes here, I was surprised at how many passengers there were.

There were a variety of beer and spirits for self service as well as other chilled beverages and a coffee machine.

The breakfast buffet was fine for a small outstation lounge (honestly better than the United Club in D that I used on my way in), but I had eaten at the hotel and skipped the breakfast here.

Yogurt, cereal, fruits, etc. here:

WiFi in the lounge was fairly fast well.

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It was about a 15-20 minute walk to my gate, and it was already chaos when I got there.

Boarding began at 9am with no clear announcement, but other than wheelchair users, there weren't any other preboarding calls. Then suddenly at 9:04 1Ks were called (but what about small children or Global Services?).

I would be flying on N446UA, a 26-years old A320-200 this flight.  It has the same 2-2 configuration as the previous flight.

I was in 2A again.

Plenty of leg space as before:

Here's a cleaner shot of the outlet and little cubby beneath.  It was cleaned up better this time compared to the previous flight.

The purser, Jae, offered us a choice of water of sparkling wine as a PDB–I opted just for water.

Then I got a text message at around 9:37am that departure was going to be delayed until 10am because of a technical issue.  The captain announced that there were some paperwork issues that was going to cause a 15-20 minute delay.  One thing that I do really appreciate is that compared to most other airlines, United's flight crew is very proactive about communicating delays and the reasons for those delays.

Ultimately we pushed back at 10:06am and took off 22 minutes later.

Service began 20 minutes after takeoff.  I again preordered, but the choices were really bad this time for a flight blocked at over 4 hours.

I finally got my breakfast tray about 50 minutes after takeoff.  Compared to the IAD-MEX flight, this wasn't half bad.

One of the nice thing the crew did on this flight was keeping the lavatory clean.  On these longer narrowbody flights the lavatories can get disgusting sometimes.

We landed at IAD at 2:53pm ET and reached our gate a mere 4 minutes later (only 7 minutes behind schedule).  However, with international arrivals, you have to use the people mover and that didn't start moving until about 15 minutes later.  It was then another 15 minutes to get to immigration to curbside (even with Global Entry).  By comparison, Mexico City was lighting fast.  C'mon guys, we gotta have a better showing at the capital city.