2:40 late so no joy. The transit from T3 to T5 was an hour, mostly because the bus was a good ten minutes to turn up and then clearing security took an age. So long, in fact, that I went straight to the gate in T5 as it said ‘boarding’.

and 40 minutes later we were actually boarding. I detest it when they do that, show a flight as boarding and then leave us hanging at the gate for an age. The gates were really hot and the boarding was completely shambolic and there were some very irate people getting on this plane.

21:37 now and at least I’m on board and heading home on the flight I expected to be on, albeit somewhat delayed… with the double departure delay working in my favour. Ten minutes later and boarding is complete, the doors are closed, and we are awaiting pushback.

Next stop, Newcastle