One of the best - certainly the most surprising - things that ever happened on a flight for me ... ironically, travelling home from Denver.
Friday night flight, it's 3:45 travel time from Denver to Toronto. 4:30 MT departure, so we're supposed to land at 10:30pm ET. No word of a lie, around 8:45pm ET, I can feel us descending. WTF... is there some kind of emergency?? Pilot comes on... "You may have noticed we're starting our descent. We were aided by 175mph tailwind, and will be landing in Toronto a little early." We landed before 9:30, so over an hour early.
The crappy thing was that I'd used an upgrade pass, so didn't get to enjoy it as long as I could have
. Oh well, 1 hour less in an airplane seat - even if Business Class - is always a good thing.