Edinburgh; Friday, 25 November, 2011

Given that British Airways gives you a free baggage allowance, it’s always a mystery why people still insist on taking massive bags onto the flight, almost as though they were conditioned to avoid putting anything in the hold.

Unfortunately, on a completely full flight on a Friday evening this meant there wasn’t enough space for everyone’s bags, and consequently some grown adults were having temper tantrums with each other. In the end, by the time some of the luggage had been forcibly extracted from the grips of passengers and put in the hold, we were late for our slot and had to tuck in behind a couple of other flights to be able to get away.

Before we even started taxing the pilot warned us that it was going to be a bit of a bumpy flight, and he wasn’t half wrong. Most of the way we bounced through the sky, with the poor cabin crew trying to serve drinks and snacks.

In spite of the turbulence, the head wind and the late start, we managed to touch down in Edinburgh only five minutes late. I’d sat at the back of the plane, so by the time I finally disembarked and got down to the baggage belt my bag was just in the process of appearing on the belt, so I grabbed it and from being the last passenger off the flight was pretty much the first one in the taxi queue.

15 minutes later I was checked into my hotel and getting ready for a good nights sleep.

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