<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by ozstamps:
Sitting in the Lan Chile Executive lounge now at 7.55pm in Santiago. Not great news as our Easter Island flight was supposed to leave over 3 hours ago! The 767 nearly blew up on runway, so glad it happened now and not over the very remote eastern Pacific. 
Still, sipping French champagne, and typing this at one of TEN free, big screen working computers, and eating real FOOD (United are you READING this!) is not too tough to take. 
Joh turns the big FIVE OHH on August 12. She had planned to spend it on Easter Island and as it is a 5 hour flight with an hour or two time difference she may well be seeing it in via a business class seat in a 767. Lan Chile claim a new plane will be here "soon". The word Manana comes to mind for some reason.
Thanks to Jim_B for showing us around Santiago today so expertly in between our UA flight arriving and this alleged flight leaving. 
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indeed to the near-catastrophe!!! Glad you are safe and hope there are no further flight problems!
And congrats to Joh on making the big half-century mark! (Having already passed that mark a few years back, I am allowed to say this without any FT sarcasm.)
I hope to meet you both at the SeaDoo in a week's time!
Kathy