Kwajalein to Majuro

Continental Micronesia CS956 | KWA/MAJ
Economy Class
N14249 | Boeing 737-800
ATD/1803 | ATA/1855

Once we were ready to depart, we taxied past a US Navy aircraft and onto the taxiway. Turning onto the runway, we took off in the rain. Flying time to MAJ was about 45 minutes. Our climb was slightly turbulent, and the Captain announced that he would keep the seatbelt sign on for the duration of the flight to MAJ. We flew through clouds the whole time.

The “tropical juice service”, as the flight attendants called it, started very quickly into the flight. This time, they identified the juice – it was supposed to be pineapple-orange – but somehow it tasted like guava juice.

We descended through yet more clouds to land at MAJ. MAJ, too, was wet, and almost all transit passengers stayed on board. While in transit, USA immigration and customs forms were distributed, and they would be distributed again and again (no fewer than five more times) en route to HNL. This also happened on the prior legs. Somehow, this set of crew was a lot more concerned that every passenger got the right forms. Before long, MAJ passengers boarded, and we were on our final leg. The snoring man, in the meantime, had moved to the seat directly behind me – I guess that was his assigned seat. The aircraft was quite full for this sector – again at least 80% - but the seat between Tony and I remained unoccupied. Another one of my client’s staff who was seated a few rows behind came to sit with us because the crying baby was preventing her from sleeping.Les mer