Santo Domingo beginning of trip
I exited my home in new york at 4 in the morning, temperature was 10 Fahrenheit or minus 12 Celsius. Overall this has been the mildest winter I have seen where I live in New York. I paid $98US each way on American Airlines ($336 total airfare) , JFK to SDQ, not stop flight, Boeing 777, airplane was about 95% full. Strong winds, so the airplane sat for an hour on the tarmac (no announcement from the pilot). I have not flown AA in years. In flight entertainment options are good. I watched "Puss in Boots" for free. The flight attendant for where I was sitting would not close the overhead bins, she asked passengers to close the bins. The captain came on about 20 minutes after takeoff and told us what time we would land in santo domingo and the temperature there. No "good morning", no "thank you for flying American". Seems some workers at American might be pissed because of American's bankruptcy filing. Two passengers (a white guy and a Dominicana) on the airplane got into an argument, in the middle of the flight (that almost got physical) , a passenger went and told the flight attendants, the flight attendants took more than 10 minutes to come over. I saw no monger type guys on this flight (mostly Dominicans and some white couples in their 30s). It was a bumpy flight. As we were landing an overhead bin in front of me opened and a bag was starting to slide out, that would have fallen and smashed a woman on the head. Flight attendants did not nothing, a passenger got up and tried to close the bin, but was yelled at to sit down by a flight attendant. My last 10 or more flights to the DR have been on Jetblue, (smooth flights, bigger seats, more space, smaller airplanes, passengers get off the airplane quicker). I don't know if I will fly American Airlines again.