Aha, so this is where all our luggage goes?! Interesting. I always wondered what it looked like inside there. : )
With the merger between NWA and Delta. It might have be finalized on paper late last year. But, it takes a whole lot longer to actually make the switch. These airplanes, are all taking turns to get painted and switch to saying Delta on them. About half the Narita NWA/Delta planes are now painted, yet half still say NWA. It just takes time to get them all painted because the airplanes must fly daily to get the revenue. So, yeah it's still gonna take some time. Flight attendant uniforms have been switched. The flight attendants for what it's worth, do love the new uniforms by the way, I talked to a few of the ladies myself about it, ha ha ha and they dig them. : ) Headphones in the airplane used to say NWA, now they're just plain. So it's a slow slow process, certainly not going to happen over night. And on that little blurb thing on my blog it still says "hubby works for NWA" eventually yes, after the planes all get painted and things look near complete, then I'll go and switch it and change it to "hubby works for Delta", I do know it still says NWA. Ha ha ha. : ) What changes do we personally have? Well, the flight benefits are still the same. We still get to fly unlimited, meaning as many flights we want. And no not all airlines have that. JAL for example does not have unlimited flight travel (one of my husbands dear friends works for JAL). That is probably not well known but it's true, not all airlines have the same benefits. They (JAL) work on a point system and I think they get like 6 flights a year total per family, which isn't much if you think about it. Something like that, don't quote me the actual # of trips but it was a low number and I was sorta shocked to find out their travel benefits were not unlimited like ours are. : ( But my husband's friend's wife still works for NWA so he uses the wife's NWA benefits since it's an easier system. Lots of airlines have limited pass travel, isn't that interesting. Likewise lots also have unlimited as well. It really just depends on the airline. Lucky for us, NWA and Delta both have unlimited. And for what it's worth, interesting little tidbit here... little unknown fact maybe : )..... Since NWA and Delta is a "
Skyteam member" we can also fly with other skyteam airline for the smallest smallest fee. Aeroflot, AeroMexico, Air France, Alitalia, China Southern Airlines, Continental Airlines, CSA Czech Airlines, Delta, KLM, NWA, Korean Air, Air Europa,Copa Airlines, Kenya Airways, and we also can fly other airlines too, but just pay a small fee. Hubby flew Alaska airlines from Oregon or Washington once to fly to Denver and it cost him something like $11 bucks or so, I forget the actual price because it happened a few years ago but it was really low cost for him to fly Alaska Airlines, I remember. And the rest of the airlines, we are lucky enough to use a ZED fare since NWA/Delta is a ZED member and while not all airlines are part of the ZED ageement, many many airlines are ZED members the list is huge, and so many airlines are fellow ZED members just for example some of our ZED sister airlines are, like Air Canada, British Airways, Virgin Atlantic Airways our fees or cost to fly these other airlines is quite small. Here's all the many many carriers we all share
ZED with. So in a nut shell, our base airline, Delta/NWA we fly for free. And all other airlines that are our skyteam members or parts of ZED, we pay a really really small fee. The only only thing that changed for us personally..... Is that for NWA... employee's kids couldn't fly first class until they were 9 or 12 years old. Meaning nonrev kids. But at Delta, employees kids can fly first class from age 6 (meaning non rev kids). So, as soon as Noah hits age 6, we will be using first class for the rest of our lives for free. So that's the only change and it's a positive change at that. We have just 2 more years in coach, ha ha ha. : ) Anyway I am usually really tight lipped and quiet about the actual flight benefits we do have, but I figure people are probably sorta curious so I will share it here just this once. : ) And an other little interesting tidbit, yes, even when a person retires from NWA/Delta, say they got too old etc, their flight benefits are for life. When Noah hits 6, is when we would like to start travelling to Europe. Also there are no papers to fill out etc to travel, again a few other airlines, they need to submit in writing the trip they'd like to take and be approved which can take a while for the paperwork to go through, but at NWA and Delta..... Our pass travel is all electronic. We are in the system already, there's a private employee only website we log onto, I check the flight see how many seats available for whatever flight I wanna take from my home computer and if the flight looks good/open, we list ourselves up, easy peasy. Nothing needing to be approved or anything. So our airline has a really easy to use system. Anyway just thought this might be sorta interesting for some of you to read, that's all. : )
The boys got to sit on the edge of this engine. All the kids and families got a turn to take a pic like this. And the airplane was off and cold engines, ha ha ha obviously. : )
Do you ever wonder when the flight attendants go to sleep during the middle of an international flight, where they go and what do their sleeping arrangements look like? I'll show ya, if you like! : ) Me and my polka dotted ballet shoe going down the stairs. This is where they sleep.
These are the crew bunks. They are twin size bed type size. They are bunk beds if you can tell in the picture. Each bunk has a blankie and a pillow and drapes they can draw close when they are sleeping. There are about 6 of these down there. The pilots have their own sleeping area near the cock pit which I'll show you later down below somewhere. : ) But the pilots can snooze both places. But mostly the attendants just sleep down there.
Noah sitting on a crew bunk. : ) You know about 2 hours after we had family day...this airplane actually flew to the states. : )
On family day, we all were given lunch. Here's the boys eating their box lunch we were given. : )
3 different types of sandwich and chips, a Snickers bar and a Sprite. The sandwich in the middle was a roasted turkey sandwich. We all really enjoyed out lunches a lot.
They even brought this cargo plane next to us and they started up the engines. So loud!!!! Good thing they gave us all ear plugs beforehand.
It was raining off and on, Sunday August 30th during this family day thing. Good thing I brought their rain coats. They needed them. : )
Here's the pilots private room. His chair turns into a bed. This is right next to the cock pit.
You can see big fluffy blanket and pillow. There is also a meal tray and stuff. They can all rotate naps and stuff and still be close to the cock pit. : )
Ever since 9-11, all the cockpits have to be locked and only persons who know the code can get in.
Safety precautions.
Hi Noah! : )
Hi boys! : )
And by now the rain had really picked up. And it's funny it's just a coincidence but another NWA plain landed just as we were driving away. And the whole bus cheered again. That made me laugh. I thought how cute. : ) Everyone getting all happy like that. : )
A Delta plane side by side a NWA plane. Now the rain was getting even worse. Weather reports said the Chiba area would be hit with a typhoon on Monday. We believed it. Because the rain from Sunday was really picking up.
The "family day" at NWA/Delta sorta marked the end of Summer for us. In just 2 days B would be starting school on Sept 1st and Noah on Sept 2nd. This was our last thing to do for Summer. It was now really drawing near the end for sures. So we said, let's go and have some yakitori at a restaurant. So we did, we went to have yakitori in Narita.
We had so much yakitori! These ones were the all white meat ones. The ones for the boys and I. The boys also had fries, rice and Calpis drinks.
Yup Noah had a Snickers bar smudge on his shirt so I had a spare change of clothes in the car and he switched to a green shirt. We all enjoyed the restaurant a lot.
Hubby ordered yakitori 4-5 at a time. I think he had around 8-9 yakitori. He likes dark meat way better so he ordered whatever he liked. : ) He also had raw cabbage and dunked it in goma. He had a beer and I drove home. We did, "kanpai" and clincked our glases together the four of us. For us this sorta marked the end of Summer for us, being at this restaurant.
Hubby enjoyed many things while at the yakitori place. : ) We were there for about an hour and a half. Sorta just enjoying the mood. I asked my family, what was your best and favorite part about the trip to Hawaii? Noah answered, B answered, hubby answered. And I answered too. What was your best time while in Saipan? Again we all answered. B said the "kids club and the wave rider" Noah replied the ice cream cones! I am kidding you not! That was his answer. @_@ lol. Hubby answered and so did I. What was your best time about grandpa's stay, or about all our backyard pool days and slip and slide days? What was your best Summer memory altogether? And what are you looking forward to this Fall? We just sorta just chilled at the restaurant. Sitting, talking. Fondly remembering. Of course we grumbled in bits about the computer. But we mostly just enjoyed ourselves. Ahh good bye Summer, we'll miss you, see you next year! Bring it on Fall/Autumn let's roll! I think, we're ready! : )
PS: I am so behind with blogging you guys and for that I am sorry. : ( Anyway this post is over 7 days old already, so I am just going to publish it yet not allow any comments. Only because it happened way back on August 30th. : ) And plus I have 1 last post to do before I am officially caught up. So, I do apologize but it's just easier to just push this through. And then clean some house and hopefully do my other post sometime today or tomorrow at the latest. Also with undokai this coming Saturday, things around here are just a little crazy this week.. and the computer issues still aren't totally fixed yet either. And yada yada yada and the 1 post still to do yet. Gah...anyway sorry. : )
Branden smiling, meanwhile Noah looking at someone else. Sometimes trying to take a pic with both looking at the camera can be a challenge. : )
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