5 Reasons Why You Should Still Fly Malaysia Airlines
by Alyssa Ramos
Disclaimer: Prior to you freak out and accuse me of getting insane or a terrorist…this was how I created light of and attempted to see the vibrant side of a pretty awkward and eerie circumstance. Yes, I was terrified. No, I am not accountable if you fly Malaysia Airlines and some thing happens to your plane.
When I was booking my a single-way flights around the globe, I didn’t even know that I had booked a flight on Malaysia Airlines since I was mainly focused on the least expensive flights on Booking.com, and didn’t bother to seriously appear at what airline carrier was becoming used. But when I got that beautiful small Malaysia Airlines booking confirmation, I was a teeny bit concerned, but also a teeny bit amused at my own irony.
“It’s Ok, Fox News had their field day, you can’t shed two planes.” I reassured myself, attempting to stand up for my obnoxious conspiracy theories that I tend to speak completely also a great deal about. I ignored the comments and pleads to alter my flight, refusing to give in to the worry-mongering of the government and media…but then on July 17th, specifically two weeks ahead of I was supposed to leave for South Africa, MH17 gets shot down in Russia. Genuinely?!
After starring at the Tv screen in shock for a excellent ten minutes, I ran to my laptop to stalk the airspace above where it was shot down. Out of all 900 planes that flew more than that space that morning, MH17 was the only Boeing 777-200ER…the same exact model as “missing” Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. Due to the fact my official theory is that the plane was stolen by *a government (the only men and women who would be able to pull of such a heist) and that it’s going to either be made use of as a enormous bomb, or to scare nations into thinking it’s going to be employed as a enormous bomb…or to scare men and women in general…it created sense to me why persons at a hugely opposing border would shoot down a suspect aircraft. Note: Check out this proof that the wreckage matches MH370 but NOT MH17. But I digress.
Fine. I admit. I was a bit worried. I known as my mother who you would consider would freak out, but fortunately mine is great and was the only person who reassured me that I wasn’t going to die or go missing on my flight. I may or may perhaps not have attempted to adjust it, but they had all of a sudden spiked rates on cancellations and flight modifications, so I double checked to make positive neither of the planes have been Boeing 777’s and Malaysia Airlines it was.
It was the third leg of my trip around the world. I had currently taken my a single way flights from LA to South Africa, then South Africa to Bangkok, Bangkok to Krabi, then Krabi back to Bangkok, where I was scheduled to depart on MH143 to Kuala Lumpar (the airport where MH370 flew out of), then connect to Sydney. Preserve in mind that at this point, I had no debit or credit card considering that they got stolen in Thailand, only a tiny bit of money for “emergencies” ( f*cking Bangkok) which meant there was no turning back, so here’s how I convinced myself it was going to be OK to nevertheless fly on Malaysia Airlines.
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1. It’s Further “Safe”.
My very first Malaysia Airlines flight was forty minutes late. I’m not complaining, I’m just mentioning it to reference my inside joke with myself about it technically being “missing”, that no one particular else seemed to discover humorous. When I inquired why the plane was late, the staff told me that they have been taking “Extra pre-cautionary safety measures prior to take off”…thus we have cause quantity a single to nonetheless fly Malaysia Airlines: It’s Added “Safe”.
two. The Employees is Exceptionally Sympathetic.
Immediately after quietly boarding alongside the rest of the exceptionally quiet and suspicious passengers, I took my seat subsequent to a further girl who looked equally as worried as everyone else to be on the airline. We took off with no trouble, and following I was confident that no one else was taking any of the many readily available seats, I scooted more than to the empty row subsequent to us. Considering that it was only a two hour flight, and due to the fact there was no way I was going to sleep and let any funny company happen in the exact same airspace where the initial plane disappeared, I decided to try blogging, which failed, and turned into deleting unnecessary images of random animals on my phone.
When the flight attendant guy came by to offer me my meal, he gave me two choices meat or meat, both of which I couldn’t eat due to the fact I’m a vegetarian. He seemed confused, but I assured him that I would be fine if he just brought me another glass of wine. He came back with the complete bag of person peanut packets (believe sufficient peanuts for the whole plane) and tried to supply them to me to make up for the lack of vegetarian solutions. When I refused he insisted I take them as a souvenir, which I didn’t obviously, and requested more wine alternatively. Which brings me to reason number two to still fly Malaysia Airlines: The Employees Is Exceptionally Sympathetic.
3. Every person Wants to be Your Ally.
When I arrived at Kuala Lumpar I somehow immediately managed to get trapped in a conversation with a young Persian guy who admitted to witnessing me take my initial “In case I go missing” selfie on the empty plane. I believe he ought to have been scared also since he walked with me to the bathroom, to the jungle exhibit in the middle of the airport, and to the bar before he had to go catch his flight to Japan. Cough, exactly where MH370 was supposed to go, cough cough.
At the bar, I had portioned out my remaining cash for what I would need to get from the Sydney Airport to my hotel, and what I could invest on food due to the fact at that point I had not eaten considering that I left Krabi. However, it wasn’t adequate for any of the bar meals products, so I sheepishly asked for the cheapest issue on the menu…a beer.
“Can I order the pizza, a white wine, and a Bloody Mary?” A funky DJ-looking kid stated all of a sudden to the bartender, hopping up on the stool next to me. My eyes involuntarily twitched up to appear at him with envy for ordering my two favourite points. “I figured you must eat a thing other than peanuts.” He stated to me sarcastically. After trying to convince him that I was completely fine with my beer and that I couldn’t accept, he finally got me to give up with, “Hey if this is my final meal I’d at least like to delight in it with a person.” Touché. It was then that I realized that absolutely everyone flying Malaysia airlines was genuinely trying to be good and friendly to every single other simply because of purpose quantity 3: Everyone Wants To Be Your Ally.
four. Each Seat is Initial Class.
The second plane was even later than the first a single, shocker. This time they told me that they have been re-fueling, which I had to fight myself not to sarcastially question. When we ultimately boarded the substantially larger aircraft, I noticed that it was substantially emptier than the earlier one particular. I’m assuming it was due to the fact we had been flying in the precise direction that MH370 presumably disappeared in, but what do I know.
I was shocked when the captain announced that we had been obtaining ready for take-off since my complete four-particular person row was empty, and so had been the majority of the rows about it. I peeked back at the American hunting guy behind me who shrugged his shoulders and gave me the exact same partially confused, partially worried appear that I was sporting. We each simultaneously started lifting the arm rests up on all of the seats and arranging all of the pillows and blankets to make much better-than-1st class beds.
I set my faux-first-class seat up like an office, placing half of the tray tables down and covering them with all of my electronic devices which I plugged into every seat back outlet to charge. Then I enabled every form of communication which was only the incredibly high-priced information roaming on my telephone, but guess what? It nevertheless worked the complete time! Guess what that indicates? … I won’t get into it. Anyway I was really comfy which is why explanation number four is: Just about every Seat Is 1st Class.
five. Extra Wine For You!
Clearly with an intense lack of passengers there was an extreme surplus of meals and wine, which the flight attendant was much more than eager to give me immediately after witnessing my excitement more than the vegetarian choice. I generally feel terrible about obtaining to constantly flag the flight attendants down to get extra wine, but this lady just kept them coming! I decided that becoming on Malaysia Airlines was a great enough excuse to get drunk, not to mention the only way I’d ever fall asleep, so I had a grand old time getting a wine-tasting celebration by myself in my faux very first class seat, then passed out like a infant. And hence, purpose number 5 to nonetheless fly Malaysia Airlines: A lot more Wine For You!
In all honesty, I was a tiny bit terrified, but a lot more so felt incredibly poor for the employees of the airlines. I could see and hear the sympathy they have for the “missing” and deceased passengers and staff members of MH370 and MH17 and can’t envision how they should feel finding so numerous worried appears from existing passengers like me…
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