Sunday, September 24, 2006

Brum to JFK


We caught a mini cab to the airport. No problems checked in with no delay and had a coffee whilst we waited 20 mins for our flight to be called. It was due to take off at 6.20 but was 15 mins late. Quite a turbulent flight. We landed at Paris ‘Charles De Gaulle’ and found it is being rebuilt. The plane parked on the perimeter and a bus drove us all round the airport to the terminal. We hurried to the transfer desk and they said they would call ahead to the next flight to say we were on our way. The flight was due t leave at 10.15 and it was already 9am(local time). We caught another bus to the next terminal and found our way to the security check, what chaos!!!! They had set aside a queue for the 3 flights to USA due to take off at 10.15 but it didn’t help more than to coral us in a separate area. As usual for French queues we mêlée’d around for ages. Belts and shoes off, Bit by bit we came to the front of the line. There was an x-ray machine for our bags an archway to go through a full body (thankfully not a cavity search). I was getting extremely testy by the time we got to the final check of our bags. A surly French geezer delved about in my carefully packed bags. Tony’s walking stick attracted a great deal of interest as did my medicine bag, have I a medical paper the guard asked. Yep, rummage, I produced said document, it could have been a shopping list for all it meant to him, with a shrug we were sent on our way. The walk to embarkation was about a 10 min walk up hill and down dale, then to a bus, which had been waiting and slowly filling up since 09.20. it was 10.10 no. After another 10 mins or so we drove off to the perimeter again. On boarding we hurriedly go ourselves organised. The pilot announced we had lost our slot, so we waited all strapped in for about 15 mins, then he announced something wasn’t right on the pre flight checks so they had to start again, finally we set off at 12.45


He flight was pretty bumpy over England and Ireland, then thick cloud over the Atlantic until we flew in over Goose Bay-RAF readers will know all about the Goose- although no black fly on board thankfully. In flight food was lovely Complementary champers and good films, Nacho Libre with jack Black, RV with Robin Williams and Inside Man with Denzil Washington.


Once into JFK in New York we quickly went through Immigration and we in a cab heading for the city within an hour.


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