Kathleen and I are sitting in the British Airways Business Class lounge at Seatac. We just had a nice bite to eat, and we are waiting to board the first flight that will take us to London Heathrow. From there we change planes to fly on to Madrid.
So far, we are the only ones in our group of six who have been on time (we hope to stay that way). My brother Steve and his bride Jamie are coming from Southern California via LAX, and their Lufthansa Frankfurt started an hour late, got halfway to the runway where they were to take off and had a medical emergency and had to turn around and go back to the terminal so they could take the person off. Their plane finally got in the air almost two hours late. We hope they connect in Frankfurt, which was only 90 minutes to start with. Luckily, Lufthansa has three other flights down to Madrid tomorrow, so they should be OK.
Our friends Mike and Cathy live in South Florida, and even though they were south of the hurricane, they were worried that Miami airport might close. The good news is that their nonstop flight to Lisbon and then on to Madrid on TAP Air (the national airline of Portugal) made it out, but they were two hours late. Mike thought they might also miss their connection, but that would be OK as TAP has flights to Madrid about every hour.
So, if everything works out for us, we will be in Madrid at 7:55 tomorrow night (which is 10:55 tomorrow here in Seattle. Wish us luck. We have a three-hour layover at Heathrow, which I consider enough. More on Saturday. And hopefully some photos, but it’s supposed to rain, so we shall see.
Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports. —Lois McMaster Bujold
Fly safe:)
Great adventures ahead I can read all about. Yay! Glad you got out of time, what a fiasco for Jamie and Steve at LAX and as for Cathy and Mike, no matter how late-they got out considering…..
How do I edit? I misspelled a word. I have got to reread before hitting send. ???
Glad you all got away, even with the various delays. Looking forward to your daily updates.
Just noticed I changed my name ?
What did you change it to???
Oh, Paul Hiward.
Stay positive, enjoy and be safe…
Have a safe flight. ??
Looking forward to following your journey We hope you all have no more ’events’ with flights.
Steve here. Jamie and I were 2 hours late into Frankfurt, we got through customs fast and we arrived at the next gate with 10 minutes to spare. The travel gods were not with us today as the plane had closed and was pushed away. The next flight to Madrid was 100% sold out, so we are on the 8:50pm flight. We arrive at 11:25pm now. We are very tired.