British Summer - ahhhh. NOT. And given that I live in Aberdeen, we get even less of a summer than the rest of the UK. rUK if we are speaking Nationalist....

So work trips had quietened down for a while and I needed a trip so that I could keep the flashy Gold card for another year. I had a wee root around at different places on the BA website. Malta took my fancy. £300 later I had booked a CE return to Malta. I have never been before. I am looking forward to it a lot. My first holiday this year was only a few weeks ago (shameless plug for my last TR here - http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trip-...hr-prg-ba.html)

People at work told me that I got too many holidays. I told them to b*gger off.

The flight from ABZ was at 7.30am. That meant an early start given that I never normally get up until 7.45am on a normal morning.....*cue gasps*

It was dark when I got up at 4.45am this morning. You can tell winter is coming. When I got up at that time a few weeks ago the sun had already risen. I decided that I was going to get the airport bus to the airport. My dad offered me a lift but I would have felt bad if I had made him get up that early. So I left my flat to a very quiet neighbourhood.......everyone else obviously got the memo that 5.15am was still too early to get up.....





I waited for the bus to take me down to the bus station to get the airport bus. It seemed to take ages. How can the first bus of the day be late!? It came eventually. I was surprised that the bus was so busy - why were these people not in bed?! I got down to the bus station and as I got to the bus, the doors had just closed. Luckily, there was a nice bus driver who opened straight away. I paid my £2.80 and we were off towards ABZ.

Now, in my last TR I told you all how ABZ has a lovely new front door but I took a crappy pic. So here is the new door......



As I have said before, ABZ is a joy to go through. From front door to lounge was about 6 minutes. I am glad I had fast track security - the normal line was crazy this morning. But ABZ is a busy place in the morning - a lot of T3 flights to north England, SK/WF to Norway, KL to AMS etc, etc.

I got to the lounge and was greeted by the gorgeous angel who works the early shifts. She is lovely. Always smiling, always wanting to have a wee chat. She's an asset to BA (if that's who she actually works for and isn't contracted out). The lounge was pretty busy when I went in with the early LHR and LCY flights getting ready to go. There's a kinda 'in the middle' BA flight on certain days of the weeks during the summer which is good - not too early.



Breakfast selection was the usual - cereals, fruits, croissants, butteries etc. I had some bran flakes and OJ and lots of espresso.

BA1319, ABZ-LHR, A321, G-EUXC

I left just before boarding was called. Fast track lane was quite short today which was nice. I had selected 22F - an emergency exit row with a load of leg room. I thought it would be quieter down the back.



I was getting forward to leaving dreich Aberdeen for a week of sun (hopefully!)

The flight was relatively quiet. The CSD was a guy I had seen before - perma tan and sounds like he smokes 3445 a day! We sat for a wee bit until the men up front sorted their papers.





And then we were off. The flight was obviously not heavy. We didn't even pass the gate and we were already up in the air. I dozed for a wee bit and then popped the iPhone on. It took AGES to get through all of the clouds!



Breakfast was the full breakfast or continental. Given that I had the full on my last trip (TR already plugged), I thought I would go for the continental. I really enjoyed it. I would definitely have it again! It is ham and cheese, a wee half egg and a wee tomato. I felt quite Scandinavian having it!





An announcement was made to the effect that if you wanted more tea and coffee then to ask as the crew were clearing the trays. This is obviously the same as on other BA flights - they make an announcement saying that if you want more drinks then press your buzzer.

The descent into Englandshire was nice....





........but we had to loop-the-loop for about 20 minutes. It didn't bother me as I snoozed for most of it and had padded in enough time to my schedule to allow for any delays. We were soon on approach though although there was nothing of central London to be seen because it was so cloudy. LHR was a rainy mess as we arrived.....



We parked at A2 - very handy for arrivals. Priority baggage was 'meh' today - not amazing but not sh!t either.....

I will leave you there for now..... I need to get back to the Flounge........