Had the oddest Sun Country experience last night returning from Roatan. No interaction from the Captain, nothing. No welcome, no announcement at altitude, not even an estimated flight time. The flight attendants did their stuff, but zip from the Captain.

Same with landing, no communication before or after final approach. A bit unnerving.

UAV. It's normal.

I have had a few red-eye flights like that. Just a pilot order to the attendants to secure the door and then to take their seats for take-off and landing.

Did you think Harry Callahan was the pilot at gunpoint?

Maybe they were flying on instruments

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Originally posted by Ronin1069:
Had the oddest Sun Country experience last night returning from Roatan.

Off topic - is the airport in Roatan still under construction?

Lord, that would be awesome!

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Off topic - is the airport in Roatan still under construction?

Coming in through customs is pretty much the same, just slightly more organized. (which would not take much!)

Going home, Security was more streamlined, and the seating and gate area is much larger.

Currently they have room for two separate gates, they’re continuing to build so I’m expecting that they will add a third or fourth gate moving down the runway.

They have video TV screens mounted to show flight information, but they had not been hooked up yet.

No jetway, you still exit and enter the airplane via the steps.

It looks like they are adding some additional retail and food shops, but other than a small kiosk, there was not much for that yet.

Work in progress.

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Originally posted by HRK:
Maybe they were flying on instruments

I do not remember that scene but that's funny. Thanks.

I've never flown Sun Country, but all of the international flights I've taken the past few years have had maps in the infotainment system which tell altitude and ETA. The planes have also been the large dual jetbridge planes so 1/2 the plane wouldn't even walk past the captain during boarding or disembarking.

A quiet cockpit would be nice especially since they've all been one announcement in jibberish and a second announcement in English.

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I've never flown Sun Country, but all of the international flights I've taken the past few years have had maps in the infotainment system which tell altitude and ETA.

Tell me you havn't flown Sun Country without telling me you havn’t flown Sun Country.

They don’t even have WiFi, just some garbage in house system you can stream pre-loaded movies and tv shows on.

One really should have a few movies downloaded on a personal iPad before flying. You can get 30 minutes in before leaving the gate.

I know it's boomer old school but I like to just fall asleep when flying, used to be a place where you could read a book, take a nap, and enjoy a nice flight.

Now days everyone has to have some attachment to a digital device or they can't handle being out of touch with the internet... For what an hour to hour and a half on average?

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Originally posted by Ronin1069:

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I've never flown Sun Country, but all of the international flights I've taken the past few years have had maps in the infotainment system which tell altitude and ETA.

Tell me you havn't flown Sun Country without telling me you havn’t flown Sun Country.

They don’t even have WiFi, just some garbage in house system you can stream pre-loaded movies and tv shows on.

What would one expect a third rate airline to have? Almost every single flight they have origionates or ends in Minneapolis and nowhere else (a couple in Chicago and 1 connecting in Houston, but that's it.)

https://www.suncountry.com/route-map

I would relish the opportunity to sit-down in a plane.... and have zero interaction.

The amount of needless interruptions and "announcements" is un real. And they all are required at a volume that is likely considered unsafe and require hearing protection!!

Simply get on-board, sit down, enjoy the quiet. I realize that ticket is gonna cost me $25k or more for a chartered flight.

Andrew