The dispatcher is on board and a further update from the flight deck, boarding is complete and we are leaving a few people behind . Also announced that some of the late boarders would not have their luggage and that would follow on the next flight in a couple of hours time. There’s remarkably little grumbling at the moment, I guess most people are happy to have made it.

We are all buttoned up now and the safety briefing is about to start. Next stop, LHR (for those of us that made it on board!