Having had my fill of the heat on the lounge I headed over to the gates with 45 minutes to departure and ‘boarding’ being the art of herding people into a mobile sardine can.



To be fair, they did not cram the bus full, there was plenty of personal space for everyone when we set off.

As we were heading to the plane I heard some gentleman with a very nasal voice pontification on the fragility of GGL cards and the length of time it took for replacements to arrive. Praying to the heavens that he was not going to be my seat mate you can imagine my delight when he left the bus and headed to the rear stairs!

G-EUYJ is our sweet bird of freedom this afternoon and this was the second ever plane from way back when I started keeping records 20 months or so ago, and it brought me from LHR-OTP!





Menus have been distributed but I have a special ordered and I have a sneaking suspicion it is something a little off piste



Safety demonstration is now underway and we are pushing back for what looks to be an on time departure.

Next Stop: London Heathrow in maybe three and a half hours time.