About 10 minutes after takeoff a woman and two children appeared and settled into the empty business class cabin. The FA spoke to them and I found out that a) they were French and b) he was traveling on a business class ticket but his wife and children weren't. I find that unbelievable. Are you really going to sit in business class while your wife is slumming it in economy with your two children?
Anyways, as I expected a very long discussion started where the man was claiming that since the cabin was empty anyways it would be no problem if his family joined him. I could see he was going for the 'I am going to nag and nag until the crew gives in' tactic so I decided to butt in. "Listen sir, you and your family are disturbing my flight. Either you downgrade yourself to economy or you pay the price for the upgrade, which you can do on board at about $400 per person (not true, but what does he know?). Your choice." That more or less ended the discussion albeit that his children kept running back into the cabin and using it as a playground. I had had enough, spoke to the purser and had the man downgraded to economy for the remaining 2 hours of the flight. By now I was too annoyed to sleep though. What a prick...
Bali is nice as always but I am prone to something that might be labelled as 'holiday fatigue'. I was here only 5 months ago and honestly... I am sure that will improve. I am looking forward to East Timor. It is harder than I imagined to buy the ticket though. It can only be bought from a Merpati sales office and they are trying to scam me. I know for a fact the regular price is $360 but they keep coming up with rates between $550 and $700 whilst refusing to show me the price in the system and they prefer cash... Yeah, right. I hope my contact on Timor can arrange something. Merpati Airlines, what a great outfit!
Meanwhile, it will be diner at the fantastic hotel restaurant and a movie later tonight. Selamat malam!
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