Off the ground at almost 6pm and the first cabin announcement was that they would be keeping the lights dimmed. In complete contrast to the flight from AMS to OTP where the lights were up the whole time. Am I being overly suspicious or are the crew hoping for an easy ride?

The food arrived exactly three minutes after take off! The menu this evening was the best (to my diet) so far and very little went back to the galley




The standard trio of drinks as the opening salvo.




As the crew member was clearing the boxes I asked if he would turn the seat power on. “Is it off?” was the reply… DUH!

Thirty minutes in and the galley curtain is closed. I’ll lay odds it stays that way until 20 minutes to landing.

A little later, whilst I was in the galley chatting to another member of the crew about all things KLM they were telling me that KLM are switching to just hot drink and a stroopwaffle in Economy, that is a shame.

I thought I’d have a play and see what you could achieve with the free WiFi and I was pleasantly surprised that I could access bookings and even upgrade my next leg if I so wished (€179 AMS-NCL, no thanks)

I’d have won my earlier bet, the curtain was closed the whole way and most of the time all of the crew were gossiping in the galley, only appearing a couple of times to check if anyone wanted a drink.

Captains announcement that we 18 minutes to landing didn’t stop the chattering, it took the seatbelt light and ‘prepare for landing’ to finally get them moving.

Let’s face it, the odds were that I had to run into a lazy crew sooner rather than later, clearly today was that day.

19:43 and we are on the ground after a pretty poor landing with a massive bounce after first contact and then some seriously ‘throw you forward’ braking once he got the wheels on the ground.

We are now trundling around the airport to the gate, let’s see how long this hot mess takes this evening.