Flight 2: BA439 AMS-LHR
Aircraft: G-EUYI (Airbus A320)
Seats: 3F/3D
Avios/tier points: 1500 (incl. Silver BAEC bonus) / 40
Boarding was a little bit on the chaotic side, not helped in the slightest by a DYKWIA, who clearly thought it impossible that my wife and I were group 1 as he stormed past us in the queue, neatly squashing my left foot with this trolley in the process. That said, it must've been fairly orderly as boarding was complete by 16:10 and Ana got to experience her first taste of the Club Europe experience - the slightly moist, luke-warm towelette - the faint ridiculousness of which was certainly not lost on her! The captain informed us that things were going well in that way of BA pilots: "Those tyrants at ATC have agreed to let us go, which is very much a victory in the first battle of any flight, so we should be on our way soon....ish." We were indeed - airborne by 16:22 and winging our way back across to merry old England.
Afternoon tea was served promptly and was either sandwiches or a ploughman's with an overly-sweet lemon-iced cake and warm scones with proper clotted cream and jam. Steeling myself for the longer flight to come and the boozy delight it promised, I just had some water to wash it all down with. By the time tea was finished we were passing over the south-eastern shores of the UK and preparing for the usual LHR landing scrum to take place. We were clearly in God's favour today as there was only the single spin around the holding pattern to the north-east of London before we were descending our way down the south bank of the Thames. We landed at LHR at 16:27 and were on stand at terminal 5C by 16:35.