#first class travel

[lulublack90]

Prompt 3 - Enchant

@jegulus-microfic June 3, Word count 708

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Lunch had been excellent. Some silly bugger had tried to talk with his mouth full and choked at the table next to them and Remus had rushed over and given the man the Heimlich manoeuvre. They’d been given free puddings for Remus’s heroics. 

James leaned against the check-in desk. He hadn’t had to wait long to be served and the man behind the desk had a smile plastered on his face unlike the one in Remus’s queue. 

“There you go, Mr Potter, you’re all checked in. Is there anything else I can do for you today?” He said as he handed over James’s boarding pass and passport. 

“Well actually,” He peered at the name tag pinned to the man’s shirt. “Frank. Do you see that man over there? He saved somebody’s life at lunch. Is there any way you could bump him up to first class?” He did his best to enchant young Frank, giving him his best smiles and gentle eyes. Poor Frank couldn’t take his eyes off James’s smile. “Frank?” Frank shook his head. 

“I’ll see what I can do, Mr Potter. Do you happen to know his name?” James’s smile got wider. 

“Champagne, Dr Lupin,” The steward asked sweetly. 

“Erm, please, thank you,” Remus stammered as he accepted the flute. He turned to James once she was gone. “OMG! First class is amazing! You’ve totally ruined flying for me!” They both laughed as they clinked their glasses together and took a sip. 

“Just relax and enjoy yourself, Remus,” James said, giving him a cheeky wink. 

They got off the plane, fully relaxed and their carry-ons stuffed with goodies from the stewards. 

“I just need to go to the desk, I won’t be a second,” Remus told James after they’d collected their bags. 

“James, sweetheart are you coming home tonight?” Effie spoke softly as she and Monty, pushing one of the luggage trollies, came up behind him. 

“I’m going to surprise Regulus. Sirius is picking up Remus, but Reg doesn’t know we were on the same flight. So, Sirius is going to take me back to theirs as well.” He knew his face was alight with mischief because his father’s face mirrored it. 

“Have fun,” Monty chuckled as he wrapped his son in a hug. “Make sure you text your mother in the morning so she knows you’re not dead,” He whispered in James’s ear, so Effie couldn’t hear him. James didn’t understand how, after all these years, his dad still didn’t remember that Euphemia Potter knew all. 

“Fleamont, stop being ridiculous. Regulus is a fine young man, as is Sirius. Plus Remus will be there, and he’s a doctor,” Effie scolded. 

“Exactly, my love. He knows how to get the kidneys out.” Effie batted her husband away.

“Daft man. Remus dear,” Effie cooed when Remus came back over to the group, rolling a second suitcase. “You’re not going to butcher my son and sell his organs on the black market are you?” Remus didn’t know how to respond to that, his mouth opening and closing with no words coming out. 

“Muuuuum!” James hung his head into his palm. “Please stop tormenting my friend.”

“Yes, love,” She kissed James on the cheek and then did the same to Remus, patting his cheek. “I’m only teasing, darling. I know you’re a good boy,” Remus blushed, deep red and blinked furiously until Effie let him go. She and Monty wandered out of the airport, hand in hand as they pushed their trolly out of the glass doors. 

James watched his parents with love and silently prayed that one day he’d have the kind of relationship his parents had. He tore his eyes away from them and looked down at the familiar suitcase Remus had brought back from the desk. 

“Is that Regulus’s?” Remus looked down. 

“Oh, yeah. Sirius asked me to get it. They didn’t put it on their flight,” Remus told him. 

“I bet Reg is going spare,” James chuckled as he thought about the way Regulus’s face would have widened in outrage when he found out about his suitcase. “Come on let’s go cheer him up.” He took Regulus’s suitcase out of Remus’s hand and walked out into the arrivals section where Sirius should be waiting. 

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[leche-flandom]

leche-flandom in the uk: the flights

HOKAY so first things first:

Flying first class? Insane. Absurdly privileged. I'm addicted.

At the airport, I was not interested in hanging out at the first class lounge but my husband insisted that I go check it out when I tried to join them at the food court. I wasn't impressed with the free food tbh. I think the main draw is the free booze? I counted two bars but then again I only stayed on the first floor. I didn't feel like drinking though, since I knew there'd be drinks on the flight. But but but people on Reddit said that the brownies are decent; they also said it's frowned upon to bring the food out with you. With this in mind, I had packed some sandwich bags in my purse. When the servers weren't looking, I stuffed some desserts in them for the kid. Leche-flandom does mild subversion.

Then there was the flight! It was kinda bizarre to always fly economy and then surpass comfort+, first class, first premier class, etc...all the way up to a pod. There's that tumblr post about good bologna. I good bologna-ed up to my little private cabin in the front of the plane, where they had freakin mood lighting and where I was already wowed by an overhead bin dedicated just for me, before anyone even spoke. The guy in charge went, "Welcome back Ms. Flandom" (welcome back bc I've flown that airline before, I guess? And they ALL do that, all call you by your name, so weird) "thank you so much for choosing to fly with us. Would you like sparkling wine?" Heck yes I would!

The seat was fun, and kinda reminded me of how tiny homes have hide away things to save space. I texted my husband about finding a mirror, lol.

Dinner was short rib and grits from a popular barbecue restaurant. And whew, I spent FIFTEEN minutes intermittently trying to figure out how to get out the fold away table and utterly failed. Thank goodness for the flight attendant who casually pushed it in first to release it. Then he unfolded it and put a tiny white table cloth on it. I didn't laugh, but it was a near thing.

Then the attendant walked around offering a tray of tiramisu and ice cream sundaes!

So I had wine, ice cream, and "The Mummy" going on. I was able to recline my seat into a bed. They gave me a little kit with slippers, socks, lip balm, hand cream and a toothbrush/toothpaste set. Life was good.

I didn't think flying could get any better. But then when we left the UK/Europe, I flew first class on KLM (which tracks, because when we've flown basic with KLM before, we were surprised by how much nicer it was).

Before I even sat down the flight attendant offered to take my coat so I wouldn't have to stow it in the overhead bin. AND their seats are diagonal so I got not one but two windows!

They also had a little cabinet next to the seat, full of free things like an eye mask and water, but also with space for my stuff too. Really that was my favorite part, being able to have my things on hand instead of reaching for my backpack.

When I was disinfecting everything I accidentally turned my screen Russian. My Google lens wasn't working so I took a wild stab at it, chose one option, and breathed a sigh of relief when I saw it return to English so I wouldn't have to notify the staff that I was a complete idiot. I had already accidentally pressed the button to recline my seat into a bed twice at that point (crushing my backpack a little ha)

The food was probably good but I've the boring palette of a uncultured child, so I didn't like it. It was nice that they came around with a warm bread basket with white and brown choices though!

Cannot get over how nice the flight attendant was! Like at one point she was starting the beverage service and when she got to me I asked her where the restroom was. She pointed it out and then asked, "Do you want to wait until after you go to get your drink?" And I went...sure? So she just backed that cart up and seriously waited til I was settled to start service again. WHAT?

And the same flight attendant seemed kinda disappointed I refused a coffee or port or anything else with my dessert (which was a mango chocolate thing of a jiggly texture, did not like). She left but then later came back and said, "Maybe you would be interested in one of these?" Then she opened a huge box of white, milk, and dark chocolates shaped like little Dutch houses!

An hour or so before landing, they gave us a small poke bowl (which I'm sure was very enjoyable to mature adults) and ravioli. I really liked this chocolate thing!

The most cuckoo bananas part was right before we landed. This guy came around with a tray holding a little village. Apparently, they like to give KLM first class fliers these adorable Dutch houses as souvenirs! Again, WHAT? That's so nice, I was flabbergasted! Because my backpack was stuffed, I chose the smallest one.

Just to be clear, I'm not detailing all this to brag. I just know I'll never experience this level of luxury ever again so I need to document it while it's fresh in my mind. That way when I'm decrepit I'll have these posts to look back on 🤗

[blackjewels5]

Black Class

[lunarharp]

shirahama-sensei reminded me she has a thing for the teacher from pokemon s/v so i randomly went off on an au where qifrey is the professor. etc

[collophora]

Last line challenge

Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you feel like.)

Sorry I took my time to answer xo Thanks for tagging me @just-here-with-my-thoughts <3 <3 <3

Actually I can't show much cause all my wips are for fanzines or commissions but!

I can show you a hint of what I'm actually doing for @devinsisland apocalyptic AU zine hehe

Very sketchy 'cause some of theses were just ideas exploration I ended up throwing (they'll be cleaned and posted on social for bonus later probably)

Also follow the zine here: https://www.instagram.com/aftermathzine https://x.com/AFTERMATHzine

(not me changing a tag into a promo post xD)

I don't really know who to tag, always scared of bothering, so I'm gonna try hhhh @lightspringrain (I'm the worst, I'm tagging while you're on break so Hm, no pressure) @wrenkenstein (hello I love your art and your whole vibe apparently we're mutuals so *flies away*) @clownery-and-fuckery @electrikworm

@scarletv0id (Please ignore if you don't wanna) And mutual who see this post but I'm too shy to tag!

[fluorescentbrains]

society if we boarded planes back to front window to aisle in an orderly fashion instead of splitting up the boarding groups based on ticket class and esoteric customer loyalty rankings

[white-boy-of-the-year]

White Boy of the Year - Round 2 Voting: Poll 2

Voting for all brackets lasts one week, and as always, feel free to send in propaganda through either our inbox or by tagging reblogs with #propaganda.

Happy voting!

[windowstothepast]

Air Travel in the 1950s

[vertigoartgore]

2014's X-Men: Days of Future Past turns 10 today. Feel old yet ?

[calebs-hangout-corner]

Me: EAH has a bunch of plotholes and retcons, I don't have to believe everything canon tells me because it gets things wrong or just flatout contradicts itself at times and it is no use getting hung up on small details that ultimately don't matter in the grand scheme of the story.

Also me: [Trying to come up with a way to explain the whole "the Evil Queen stole the Dark Fairy's destiny" detail]

[goshyesvintageads]

United Airlines Inc, 1988

[dreamgirlglowup]

₊˚ෆ Daily Affirmation ₊˚ෆ

Princess treatment or nothing

[vox-anglosphere]

All aboard for Britain's most scenic journey on the West Highland line

[chuchu-lovely-munimuni-muramura]

PORTGAS D. ACE!! 🔥

The boy!! Had an hard time with the pose and I probably fucked up the tattoo cause my stupid ass decided to draw without reference but gosh was it fun to draw(you can tell the part that truly made me suffer was drawing a background, I really don't like it as much as the drawing but eh)! Thank you @deadnamedblog for the proposition (and also thanks for the condolences, I feel a bit better about my failure but I really did cry with how hard it was to clean it all up)!

[baronessblixen]

DD just came back from Greece and he’s already doing all these interviews where the hell do these ppl find time to sleep ?? (Also I love how he’s back with the dad joke tshirts)

We saw he can sleep everywhere so he probably slept on the plane 😂 I mean most rich people travel first class. You can really lie down there and sleep. I do love his shirts. He should bring back the pumpkin shirt.

[presiding]

you'll never guess which level we're up to in this dishonored 2 rewrite