A bit of silliness at the gate, they were trying to separate boarding group one into one lane and boarding groups two to three into a second lane. Completely overflowed the group one lane so I and other latecomers were channeled down the group two/three lane and both lanes were released simultaneously… at least they tried.

Boarding started with only ten minutes to departure so we clearly would be late off the ground. A real surprise on boarding, I’d been on another flight late last year with one of the crew, really don’t see the same crew members very often.

Row five on this one and I’m sure you do not need a picture of my knees to know it is the same lack of leg room as the earlier flight down from Newcastle. This leg we are flying on G-EUUT, another one that I have been on before.




My seat mate in 5A has been playing some card game on his phone with the sound effects on so the cabin is being treated to the constant sounds of dealing cards and pings/dings, I give thanks for noise cancelling headphones!

Everyone on board and pilots announcement that we are going to be ten minutes late pushing back so not too bad a delay and half a chance we will make that up in the air.

Next stop, Milan Linate airport.