Area near the entrance that looks like a football field…


High tables and stools near the food corner



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Food offerings, including salad, poached salmon, cheeses and pate


The office area with iMacs for passenger use and laptop stations

All in all, a decent lounge by European standards but did not exactly rock my world. Not that I was expecting it to, either – I just ate some salmon and made myself a cup of tea, and left the lounge at roughly 11:15, some 45 minutes before scheduled departure time. Passed by an interesting looking sofa – a far cry from the hard metal benches at LHR!


The gate attendant scanned my boarding pass and I went downstairs to the jetway level where I waited for another 15 minutes or so before they announced boarding. No priority boarding so it was all a bit of a free-for-all, but I had managed to locate myself near the entrance so I was roughly the third person onboard. The registration for the aircraft today was SE-DIN


Some nice photos of the cockpit from the outside and through the door – I was feeling a bit shy to ask whether I can take a photo properly (maybe even ask the pilots to pose) but the two photos turned out quite nicely, I thought.




When I reached my seat in row 2, I paused momentarily as I debated what to do about the guy that was enjoying settling into my window seat. Naturally, I chose the window seat to get a good view out of the window and also to film the take-off and landing, so I had no choice but to tell him it was my seat. At least he was decent enough not to complain about moving back to his aisle seat.