Originally Posted by
RAPC
You want to try a 3 hours sat on the ground whilst your A330 is de-iced and then stranded away from a gate with that awful music on a loop. It's like water torture after about 30 minutes, so by 3 hours you are happy just to get off the plane, even if your flight has been cancelled!
I still have flashbacks a few years later
I have felt that pain, albeit 2 hours on MAN tarmac waiting for an unfogged LHR slot. The most annoying part was that I was told to turn my off my mp3 even though we knew we were going nowhere. "the engines are on, so all electricals must be off"
Seriously considering a sony walkman, the original, for a bit of retro cool. Always used to have that on all though take off, but perhaps these modern planes are now susceptible to breaking due to an analogue cassette player.