Well well well! The captain has been on to announce that we are waiting for one important person to board, his first officer! He reported that the originally scheduled FO had just flown back from Amsterdam and was unable to continue flying! We are now awaiting a replacement FO who is on airport standby, so the delay is going to be close to an hour before we get off the ground.

in much happier news, all the passengers are on board for this almost completely full flight and the seat next to me in the exit row is empty!

Just perusing the highlife cafe menu and it seems smaller than the last one I read, I assume there are different menus for different destinations or flight lengths.

Update: The replacement FO is onboard and we are all buttoned up and rolling to the runway almost exactly 1 hour late. Next stop, Bucharest