The Flight to Dublin
First off I would to thank British Airways for upgrading our tickets to World Traveler Plus, essentially business class. The extra leg room and comfier seats were quite nice for the flight.
Soon after reaching our gate we saw the plane arrive and I noticed a stretcher being taken on. After a long wait they finally announced that there was a medical emergency on the previous flight and we were going to be delayed at least 30 minutes. So after an hour delay we were off to London.
Once on the plane we got settled in our upgraded seats and looked through the magazine for what movies we were going to watch. Unfortunately the on demand video system on the plane was not working so there was no inflight entertainment for the entire flight. For this inconvenience British Airways offered us a £50 credit on their in flight shopping service or 10,000 Executive Club miles. We took the miles.
After a long flight with little sleep we landed in London to discover we only had 45min to make our connecting flight due to the hour delay we had in Calgary. With a bus trip between terminals and all the security checks at Heathrow Airport we didn’t make our flight. Fortunately our bags never made the flight either and the Aer Lingus staff at the airport was very helpful and got us on the next flight which was only an hour later. 2 hours later we landed in Dublin.
sowrey on January 14th, 2009
How the hell did you get upgraded?! You lucky bastard! Man, that must’ve made for a sweeeeeeet flight. Very jealous.