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Canada 2007 #1: I'm back!

It's been a while! That's because I was away for over two weeks to Canada (my home country) to visit family and friends, and also do some shopping, catch a show or two, and even do a bit of sight-seeing. It was also officially my first time in Toronto where we spent two nights, and I liked it! I'm planning to post some bits about the trip, along with a few photos, but for now here's a bit of general thoughts.

It was my first flight with Air Canada, their prices are usually more expensive than U.S. airlines and I could never justify to use it until this time. We booked a bit late and most cheap U.S. flights were gone, and with the U.S. airport fees it would have ended up about the same.

I wasn't expecting much but I thought most of the attendants were very nice and also that on the long flights (Tokyo-Toronto) there were personal monitors for economy class and the system was one of the best I had seen. Instead of using a clunky remote control, their "enRoute" system has a touchscreen with all on-demand content, letting you choose from a lot of movies and TV shows. Actually I'm not a big movie watcher on the plane, but I managed to watch "Prête-moi ta main" (with Charlotte Gainsbourg) and "Blades of Glory" (with Jon Heder from "Napoleon Dynamite"), both were very good! The latter was quite hilarious and even got bonus points for scenes in Montreal and a funny North Korea segment.

Back to the in-flight system, the down side was that it sometimes got hung and your terminal needed to be rebooted by calling an attendant. Also, some parts were still "under construction" such as the games, and more importantly the thing that tells you where you are and the time it is... However that helped me to find out that such a long flight can seem shorter when not watching the time.

That's it for now, more later!

Posted on July 27, 2007 at 22:23 | Tweet |

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