On Monday (June 16th) I flew back to London on BA (LHR this time). I’m running a bit behind in my trip report unfortunately!



I began my journey from Den Haag HS by train - thankfully the NS strike was cancelled that day. When I arrived at the BA check in counter unfortunately it was as chaotic as I’ve come to expect from BA. There were just two check in agents and three long queues of passengers (regular, priority and bag drop). The counter had run out of the tape needed to label checked luggage. So out of desperation the staff started triaging passengers by flight - starting with the next departure to LCY. I think I queued for 30 minutes, and many others even longer. The priority security line was quick but again passport control was congested - so I went through the manual passport line which was faster than the crowds around the automatic gates.



BA said that my flight was delayed - but listed the boarding time as 11:25am. So when I arrived at the gate at 11:22 I was very surprised to see the monitors saying “flight closing”.



Flight was largely unmemorable. Unfortunately the table covering the middle seat was covered in marmalade that hadn't been cleaned! The lady next to me put her leather handbag right on the residue!




























We had a long taxi ride again to Polderbaan. And a nice view of the Dutch coastline and crossing the channel. I even saw the LCY runway as we descended over London!



The inflight salad unfortunately was not good and I didn’t finish it. The dessert was interesting - not sure what it was. The top half was something creamy and underneath some kind of tropical fruit sauce.



We arrived at a C gate in terminal 5 - something I haven’t experienced before flying short haul! The purser was not happy about it and kept complaining that we weren’t at an A gate. It was a very long walk into the satellite along the jet bridge.



That evening I had dinner with my family at Trinity in Clapham. A nice meal - the beef tartare and honey soufflé especially stood out to me.