Given a travel related situation, and given a specific question about the situation, summarize the question into a title

Q: I know in a bus, for instance, (well, at least on a school bus, when I traveled to out-of-town basketball games in high school) the farther back you are, the bumpier your ride tends to be. Is there a similar situation when a vehicle is airborne?

For the quietest ride, you clearly want to sit away from the engines.  But I'm curious if there is a part of the airplane that offers the smoothest ride.  That is, most free from vibrations during flight, or during take-off and landing.

I imagine the answer may be different for aircraft that have their engines mounted on the tail versus those with the engines mounted on the wings.  And maybe other factors play into the equation as well.


A: What section of an airplane offers the smoothest ride?
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Q: There are several services that many passengers are not aware of on-board airplanes simply because they are unadvertised.

For example:


Coat compartments. You can hang your suit in the airplanes cupboard! just ask a flight attendant!
Birthday / wedding cakes. You can ask the reservation agent for wedding or birthday cake and they will bring it to you on-board!
Stain remover. In case something spilled on your shirt, you can ask flight attendants to help and they will bring you the stain remover wet tissue and it really helps!


Are there any other common unadvertised services that exist on airplanes?


A: Are there any common, secret services offered by airlines to passengers onboard?
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Q: I happened to be looking at a flight from yesterday (as writing) which was drastically delayed...

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/UAL48 (choose "Sept 2")

Now, on the many excellent flight info sites, you can quickly determine if a flight is delayed.

But - is there a way to find out WHY that flight was delayed?

This becomes quite critical if you're on the same flight the next day!

(Indeed for that specific flight, I notice the next day's one is unfortunately already marked as going to be delayed many hours; now I wonder about the next day.)

If you can know why a delay happened, it would surely be useful info if you're on the following versions of a flight.

Is there a way to do this?

(Often if you just "call the airline and ask", the staff in reservations often really don't know specifically.)



The sense of my question is, "If you're on one of the next flights of that flight number, to try to find what the heck is going on...!"


A:
Find what caused a current big flight delay?
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