Lie-flat AA business class Dallas-London (LHR) with pre-flight Flagship Dining 2017-03-22

(An annotated video) A chateaubriand dish from AA's compact Flagship Dining room in the DFW Terminal D Admirals Club is followed by more dining in a lie-flat business-class console across the pond to London. Flight maps and simulated cockpit view screens from the mid-cabin seating section of a B777 track the progress of the flight to its touchdown at London Heathrow.

Alternatively, this video might be called "Seeking a middle-seat window on a long flight through viewing the flight's progress on the flight map." :D

Video time points:
0:01-0:12 Invitation to pre-flight dining at Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW)
0:13-0:20 Roast beef, asparagus, rice from buffet
0:35 Boarding flight
0:52-1:35 Pre-flight direct-route map
1:50-2:17 Up-close look at lie-flat seat amenities
2:18 Wine-list page of business-class menu
2:46 Flight attendant announcement
3:01-7:13 Flight safety demonstration video (2017 edition)
7:40-7:49 Takeoff (on "cockpit view" screen setting)
8:02-9:10 Dusk over Arkansas
9:11-9:15 Pop-up / push-down armrest
9:16 Menu cover
9:25 Chef's greeting on menu
10:00 Aircraft position near Jonesboro, northeast Arkansas; beginning of in-flight dinner
10:30 Salad & appetizer
10:40 Salad, appetizer, and entrée description on menu
11:25 Aircraft position near Cincinnati tri-state area of Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio
11:40 Mahi mahi entrée
11:58 Drinks list
12:30 Aircraft position near Louisville, Kentucky
12:53 Dessert list
13:05 Ice cream (End of dinner service)
13:28 Aircraft position near Columbus, Ohio
13:45 Aircraft position near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
13:50 Aircraft position near Conway, New Hampshire
13:56-14:35 Aircraft position near Moncton New Brunswick, Canada
14:43 Aircraft position over Gulf of St. Lawrence, Newfoundland, Canada
15:25-15:40 Aircraft position over, Newfoundland Sea, Atlantic Ocean
15:45-16:08 Aircraft position over Atlantic Ocean off Newfoundland
16:20-16:57 Aircraft position over Atlantic Ocean south of Iceland
16:59-17:06 Aircraft position over Atlantic Ocean off Ireland
17:07-17:17 Breakfast menu
17:18-17:38 Frittata for breakfast
17:39-18:22 Review of actual flight route to this point
18:23-18:40 Aircraft position near Waterford, Ireland
18:45-19:05 Aircraft position near Swansea, Wales
19:07-20:30 London-Heathrow Airport arrival-procedures video
20:30-21:12 Cockpit arrivals announcement: holding pattern & eastbound landing
21:55-22:30 Flying the "Ockham Stack" holding pattern used for arrivals from the west and southwest
22:35 Simulated cockpit view with actual air speed (left green), altitude (right green), and heading (bottom green) readings
Landing runway will be 9R (090 degrees required to line up)

Articles on holding patterns at London Heathrow:
Last Updated: Friday, 18 January 2008, 17:15 GMT
URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk/7196158...
retrieved on 31 March 2017

Landing at Heathrow

Up to 700 aircraft arrive every day at London's Heathrow Airport, the world's busiest international airport.
In order to land safely, air traffic controllers and pilots follow a set procedure.

The landing sequence generally starts with incoming flights being directed to one of four holding "stacks" on the outskirts of London.

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The Mystery of Holding Patterns

As aircraft cannot stop dead in the sky like a car can at traffic lights, they have to fly a holding pattern, if the approach to land has to be delayed. This is normal when aircraft approach busy airports at peak times. Air Traffic Controllers will hold aircraft over navigation points until they can safely fit them into a safe landing approach pattern. The hold is like a race track pattern over the navigation fix.
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URL as accessed on 31 March 2017:
http://www.bcavirtual.com/VA%20flight...

29:43 welcome & connection information board inside Heathrow Terminal 3

For more information on this flight:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AA...