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gramie_dee isn't here with me!
Good god it was a long frigging day!
Got the express to Heathrow at 7:10 am. walked about a mile it seemed to get to Terminal 3 and checked in. Had breakfast. Shopped. (got Shirley Valentine on DVD and a few things in Harrods :) Seemed to be leaving it rather late to give us a gate for the plane but finally got it. And it was a long walk. lol The plane didn't even start loading until it was about the time it should have been taking off. Delay.
Finally got on board and settled.
Delay.
They tell us because the plane was late landing in the air traffic bottleneck that is heathrow in the morning, they were late getting on. Because of the high winds they would be an hour and a half landing in St. John's. Oh and they are having this problem with the baggage containers or something or other and that delayed us because they couldn't load the baggage containers onto the plane. Then they are told that because they are so late now, they will not stop in St. John's after all so they need to take on more fuel.
We rolled away from the gate about 2 p.m. We should have left at 11:30 a.m. 8 hours estimated flying time to Halifax. People are up in arms because they want to get to St. John's and others are upset because of missed connections. But by God, Air Canada worked hard for them. They put on an extra flight to take the people back to St. John's, they made sure all the people for a Montreal connection got off the plane first to get through customs because they're holding the other flight for them. They rescheduled some Toronto connections and others will be sorted as well.
We landed in Halifax about 5:30 ish and really, i got through customs quicker than i thought i would. When we were still on the gate in London, i was able to call Graham to ask him to email Mom to let her know i was going to be late, to check the website. She got that message ok. I rang Dad's mobile when i was standing in the queue at Customs. I had some stress because i didn't see my bag and the crowd was thinning but then i spotted it over in the side where a baggage guy had taken it off the conveyor already and was putting bags yet unclaimed to one side. I don't think it had made it round the loop or i'd have seen it so probably they were just getting bags off the belt so they could stop it. The little beagle/drug dog was being led around randomly sniffing at bags.
Anyway i'm back at Mom's at the moment. Dad has to pick up my neice from work so to save him a trip, i'll just stay here until he has to go get her, or at least a little before that so i can get home and back to my nest.
All the rest of the stories will have to wait until tomorrow if Graham hasn't told you all first.
*yawn*
gramie_dee isn't here with me! Good god it was a long frigging day!
Got the express to Heathrow at 7:10 am. walked about a mile it seemed to get to Terminal 3 and checked in. Had breakfast. Shopped. (got Shirley Valentine on DVD and a few things in Harrods :) Seemed to be leaving it rather late to give us a gate for the plane but finally got it. And it was a long walk. lol The plane didn't even start loading until it was about the time it should have been taking off. Delay.
Finally got on board and settled.
Delay.
They tell us because the plane was late landing in the air traffic bottleneck that is heathrow in the morning, they were late getting on. Because of the high winds they would be an hour and a half landing in St. John's. Oh and they are having this problem with the baggage containers or something or other and that delayed us because they couldn't load the baggage containers onto the plane. Then they are told that because they are so late now, they will not stop in St. John's after all so they need to take on more fuel.
We rolled away from the gate about 2 p.m. We should have left at 11:30 a.m. 8 hours estimated flying time to Halifax. People are up in arms because they want to get to St. John's and others are upset because of missed connections. But by God, Air Canada worked hard for them. They put on an extra flight to take the people back to St. John's, they made sure all the people for a Montreal connection got off the plane first to get through customs because they're holding the other flight for them. They rescheduled some Toronto connections and others will be sorted as well.
We landed in Halifax about 5:30 ish and really, i got through customs quicker than i thought i would. When we were still on the gate in London, i was able to call Graham to ask him to email Mom to let her know i was going to be late, to check the website. She got that message ok. I rang Dad's mobile when i was standing in the queue at Customs. I had some stress because i didn't see my bag and the crowd was thinning but then i spotted it over in the side where a baggage guy had taken it off the conveyor already and was putting bags yet unclaimed to one side. I don't think it had made it round the loop or i'd have seen it so probably they were just getting bags off the belt so they could stop it. The little beagle/drug dog was being led around randomly sniffing at bags.
Anyway i'm back at Mom's at the moment. Dad has to pick up my neice from work so to save him a trip, i'll just stay here until he has to go get her, or at least a little before that so i can get home and back to my nest.
All the rest of the stories will have to wait until tomorrow if Graham hasn't told you all first.
*yawn*
