In Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris. Haven’t been here for years, but remember vaguely not liking it. Now I know why. It takes 15 minutes to get from the runway to the terminal building. That’s not including the time required to get the gantries in place, etc – just taxiing time. Security is both shite [...]
November 9th, 2008 at
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Just met some of the EI118 passengers in Dulles Airport (IAD). They’re on their third trip to the airport, having failed to depart yesterday evening as planned. They were initially left on the plane on the tarmac for five hours yesterday. This afternoon, they were brought back to the airport and put on a plane [...]
November 9th, 2008 at
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For anyone who was paying attention, I’ve just arrived in Virginia. Just… Both my flights were delayed. DUB-AMS had to turn back from the runway in DUB after one of the cockpit radios failed, and AMS-IAD was late, buffeted by the worst turbulence I’ve ever encountered in a commercial jet (although I’ve flown in worse [...]
October 25th, 2008 at
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