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OK, so I was a little bored on a recent flight. I was stuck in one of those Canada Regional Jets--honestly, they are the smallest "jet" I've ever been on. The guy sitting next to me probably thought I was a bit weird, lol. Anyway, gotta have some knitting, some puzzles, my iPod (and noise cancellation headphones--very key), and maybe some work related reading.
The last usually gets put away, as my concentration on flights is pretty poor...and isn't helped by people talking in their outside voices and the f*#@ing idiot sitting behind me who kept kicking me. Look Mr. Sitting in 5D, I know these planes are uncomfortable, especially if you have long legs. But didn't you get the message when your foot connected with my ankle like 15 gazillion times? Sheesh.
This shot motivated me to make some progress on the hat. I thought it would look nicer if I got some of the green in it. Took a few songs to get to this point. :) And then I had to stop because we were on the descent.
While waiting at Shanghai Pudong airport for a flight to Xi'an, I write my logbook on my blog…
The flight which normally took two and a half hours lasted all day due to mechanical malfunctions of the aircraft!
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En attendant à l'aéroport de Shanghai Pudong un vol pour Xi'an, j'écris mon journal de bord sur mon blog…
Le vol qui prenait normalement deux heures et demie a duré toute la journée en raison de dysfonctionnements mécaniques de l'avion !
Travelling Boston Heathrow on the 18:05 flight - over Newfoundland. I usually travel back in the daytime flight - avoid jet lag that way - but my flight was cancelled (snow in Heathrow - mmmmm) so had to take the red-eye.
I took this photo while having lunch waiting for my Air Canada flight to Calgary to connect with another Air Canada flight to London Heathrow on December 11. I arrived plenty early just as suggested in case the check in and security line is busy. This gave me lots of time for a leisurely lunch and lots of people watching. As the time approached for boarding everything seemed fine and was I anxious to get on with my trip and see my son and his family. All passengers boarded the aircraft that was as hot as a sauna inside on time and we’re ready to go. No and announcement from the pilot that our take off will have a short delay, we are waiting for a ground crew to push us back from the gate. It’s taking longer than anticipated and the crew cannot get the temperature under control so they will open the back doors to try and get a cross draft and cool the plane off a bit. Time passes and our revised take off time passes. Passengers begin to worry as many of us have a tight time line to catch our connecting flights. Original landing time in Calgary arrives and here comes the ground crew to load our luggage – what the luggage isn’t even loaded. Another announcement from the pilot – out takeoff will be delayed even further as Air Canada is short baggage handlers and ground crew so as soon as they load the luggage they will have a crew push us back and we will go through the de-icer and depart by 5:00PM (this is a 4:00 PM flight). Well that really shortens our tight connecting times even more but we should be able to do it as it is only a 35 minute flight and they know half the passengers on the plane have 6 PM flights to catch, surely they will hold our flights for us. As we go through the de-icing procedure the pilot comes on again to say that the Calgary tower has delayed our take off till 5:15 for ease in landing. There goes my hope for catching the connecting flight on to Heathrow. We arrive in Calgary and the vast majority of the passengers are sent to customer service to find out what our next course of action is. Myself and one other passenger heading to London and were told that we could fly to Toronto later that evening and they would put us up in a hotel there and fly us to Heathrow getting us there the next evening better than nothing but not ideal so I asked if they could put us on either a British Airways or Lufthansa flight leaving Calgary that evening as they are Air Canada Star Alliance partners. The customer service agent was very accommodating and said she would give them a call but there were no guarantees. We lucked out and they got us on the flight getting us to Heathrow 3 hours later than we were originally to arrive. The row of seats I was in had no entertainment system or overhead lights so it was a very non entertaining 9 hour flight but I did get to London and at my son’s home in time to pick up the girls from school. December 30 arrives and it’s time to come home and discover it is completely full flight and I have no choice of seating. I am lucky to have my seat changed from the very last row middle seat to an aisle seat. I am seated in an emergency exit row, yay leg run but its right beside the toilet oh well I can handle that how bad can it be. My nose is plugged from a cold so I can’t smell anything anyway. I feel a cold draft blowing on me from somewhere and look for the vent to turn it off. There are no vents in this row so the attendant offers to find me another blanket – 4 hours of freezing and several reminders later I feel like a Popsicle she arrives with another blanket for me. Half an hour into the flight an announcement is made “Reminder to passengers please do not try to flush diapers down the toilet use the trash receptacles provided – we are down on toilet.” No not the one in front of me, the one on the opposite side of the plane, so for 9 hours I have a constant stream of people bumping and nudging me and my seat on their way to the bathroom. Again the time lines for the connecting flight from Calgary are very tight and I watch the arrivals time thinking I’m going to miss my flight to Edmonton if Customs and Immigration are busy but the attendants assures me I have nothing to worry about. 3 other international flights arrive at customs at the same as ours. My luggage takes it time coming out, I rush it through to the connecting conveyor belt and rush to find my next gate with no instruction as to where it is. I go to the ticket agent and she looks at my boarding pass and says I could make and she will take me to where I have to go and take me to the front of the security line. (Why you have to pass security again is crazy, why they can’t have a way for passengers with connecting flights to go straight to the correct gate). I get to the gate only to be told that my flight is gone and that I am not the only one that has missed it but the first to arrive at the gate. They can put my on standby for the next flight an hour later but chances are I won’t get on it but there is lots of room on the one 2 hours later (5:30pm). I ask about my luggage and am guaranteed that it will be on the plane I am getting on whichever on it is. I opt for that one as it is guaranteed and I can let my son know when to pick me up. It was a 5:30 departure time arriving in Edmonton about 6:00 and guess what the flight is delayed and doesn’t leave till almost 6:30 arriving in Edmonton shortly after 7. Myself and the other passengers who missed the connection from Heathrow are waiting at the baggage carousel for our luggage as all other passengers collect theirs and leave, none of our arrives and off to baggage services we go only to find out all of our luggage is still in Calgary and should be delivered to us tomorrow. What a great trip it was, oh I forgot to say I got sick 3 days after arriving in London and have come home still not feeling 100%. All was not lost on it though as I got to spend lots of time with my son, daughter-in-law and many hours playing with my granddaughters which was the main reason for the trip so it really was a GREAT trip but definitively no thanks to Air Canada for that. Up until this trip I had never had a problem with them and honestly did not know why everyone else disliked the airline so. NOW I KNOW.
I’m back home now missing them all so very much but looking forward to wonderful New Year with hopefully many new ventures and adventures.
A delayed departure from the night before giving us a rare opportunity to photograph their 747s departing during the day.
G-BNLP was delivered in December 1990 and is still active.
Fui mais uma das vítimas de vôos atrasados. Desta vez foi no vôo Rio de Janeiro - Porto Alegre (Aeroporto do Galeão / Tom Jobim) dia 25 de Outubro de 2007.
Resolvi espantar o tédio tirando uma foto por minuto até que meu vôo chegasse de São Paulo, razão pela qual meu vôo atrasou. O buraco de 3 minutos no começo foi por causa da vontade que tive de ir no banheiro.
Depois de finalmente anunciarem a chegada do vôo ficamos mais 20 minutos esperando exatamente e literalmente na frente do avião por motivos que desconheço até agora.
Isso é Brasil. Parabéns Infraero, vocês são SUPIMPAÇOS.
(Veja em tamanho maior)
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Delayed flights in Brazil are pissing everyone off since September 2006 and I once again got hit by this stupid inconvenience. I took this one at the Tom Jobim International Airport in Rio de Janeiro last October.
I decided to make the waiting process a little bit entertaining by taking one picture a minute for an hour but the one-hour span failed... too bad. The 3-minute gap right in the beginning was due to my bladder issues... I had to pee.
Shortly after the passenger queue was packed and ready to go, we all had to wait for exactly 20 minutes literally in front of the aircraft for reasons I'm still puzzled with.
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taken by / from SE
packing for flight, but then delayed by Iceland's volcanic ash - trying again tomorrow. See you soon, Big Love.....
Departure board at Chengdu airport. There was a thunderstorm parked over the city, so a lot of flights were delayed that night.
After a wonderful week and a half at the IPW workshop with David Alan Harvey in Nawalgarh, I had to head back home to the drudgery of routine work. The drive from the Bhandaris' residence to Jaipur airport was the longest I ever had. To top it all, the flight was late. So I hung around with Chintu and Tikku, they had come to drop off their grandmom, who was flying to bombay too. The kids and I, had a lotta fun, taking fotos, singing songs, etc etc. While going both of em suddenly hugged me, gave me a kiss on my cheek, and said "Aap humko bahut acche lagte hain,(we like you a lot)." And then they waited, and asked me to say and do the same thing they did to me. Children, can make the easiest of goodbyes, very very difficult.
Barcelona airport on my way back to Lisbon while waiting for a 2 hour late flight. Hangovers do affect airport people also!! :-)
The Pacific Northwest took a heavy lashing from over 50-mph sustained wind and heavy rain, leaving one million people in the greater Seattle area without electricity.
Having prepared my luggage two nights ago, I didn't mind doing my last minute preparation for my New York trip, in flickering candlelight. My Seattle-Denver flight was delayed for an hour, scuttling my Denver-New York red-eye connection. All my checked-in pieces of luggage were lost in transit and stil remained unrecovered. The prospect of spending my birthday at the airport was almost unbearable, but I managed to sneak in an early morning flight out of Denver.
I am just glad I made it to New York in one whole piece. Sometimes, life throws a curve ball in greased fashion. But I just can't complain. C'est la vie...there are more blessings to count.
When I used to interview candidates for investment banking positions, we used to apply what we called the "airport test". The premise is quite simple: the hallmark of a potentially great colleague is one that you would enjoy spending a lot of time with if you were stuck in airports, passing time waiting for delayed flights. In my work in China, Cindy and I have spent a great deal of time in departure lounges. Though she looks bored in this photo in the Tianjin airport as we wait for our flight back to Shanghai, we always manage to have a good time. Cindy passes the airport test with flying colors
Aeromexico delayed our flight so we missed our connecting flight and spent the night in Mexico City....today we head to Oaxaca and we're both tired....but ready to go! (Dec 18, 2013)
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Kiev 88CM with Arsat C f2.8/80mm, Ilford Delta 400 in Tmax developer 1+4 for 6.5 min at 20C.
When the wait is long (like a flight delay) and patience is put to a test, a smartphone can save the day.
Got to know Malta Airport rather too well given the six and half hours we spent in the Departure Lounge :(
Air Malta was a mere two hours late coming out from Manchester!
Malta, Mediterranean, Europe - Airport,
May 2008. image reworked 2021
this woman was lovely, although she was beside herself trying to get everyone re-booked and, when that failed, vouchered. i already knew there was no way to get out that night so i was rather (a little) patient. my legs still hurt. this phone call was her trying to get more agents to help out the people, who'd now waited in line about two hours.