After quite a bit of hanging around both on the taxi and at the end of the runway we were eventually off the ground 25 minutes late. It looks like there might be a lot of slack in the timetable, flighty is still saying that we should be arriving on time? Fingers crossed.

The buy on board service started fairly quickly once the seatbelt sign was off and all of the team ran a pair of trollers down the cabin one after the other. The first trolley was buy on board in the second trolley was just offering water. I went for a coffee and a Jack Daniels, and thought that I’d give the marble cake a try. The cake is much larger than I expected, it comes in a two pack. One was enough and so theres a second for snacks later.



Once they finish serving the entire cabin one of the ladies came back again, offering chocolates to everyone. The chap on the left is a fine looking fellow, but I have to say the chap on the right bit of a hard life




Chocolate shell and a gooey centre, very tasty.



Towards the end of the flight the flight lead announced that we will be arriving at a remote stand! He also gave the gates for everyone with connections so at least I know where I need to go. Whether I make it is whole different question.

At 21:10 there was an announcement that “we’re flying pretty quickly“ no .... Sherlock! This was actually his intro into the ‘everyone pack your stuff away’ announcement although the seatbelt light hasn’t come on yet. In fact, it was fully 10 more minutes before the pilots ‘cabin crew prepare for landing’ announcement which accompanied the seatbelt might be illuminated.

All that worry for nothing, in the end with managed to land exactly on time. Now let’s see how long it takes us to get the bus across into the terminal.