Delta dreams.

Why do they show movies on overnight flights???!!!

I took the red eye back from a weekend of hiking around Southern Utah (Zion - Narrows, Snow Canyon, Kolob Canyon). I got on the plane in Salt Lake City at 1:00am. I sit down, they say that they will be dimming the cabin lights, and then a MOVIE starts playing. WTF?

Now, the screen is right in front of my face and the different lighting for each scene is like a little strobe light in my face.

I asked the flight attendant the the nicest voice I could muster at 2 in the morning, 'why they showed videos on red eye flights'? She just looked at me and said, 'we're required to'. Boo.

After about 20 minutes trying to sleep I finally gave in and watched the freakin movie. And while it was a pretty good movie (The Soloist - clip below), MAN was I grumpy by the time we landed in Atlanta at 6:00am... to catch a 7:30am flight to DC...to go to work.

G R U M P Y.

I think I am going to write Delta a letter asking them why they are so STUPID.