Segovia; Thursday, 14 March, 2024

With a late evening flight, I was able to finish work at the normal time and then head down to Gatwick, with all the train connections working perfectly I still had nearly 2 hours by the time I reached the airport.

A smooth journey through the airport, though slight delays in getting the boarding process going as Iberia had swapped out the A320 for a larger A321 plane, creating more rows of business, moving the exit rows and throwing a lot of seating plans into confusion, at least half the plane was having to have new boarding cards issues at the gate, but despite all that we still pushed back within a couple of minutes of our booked time.

Unfortunately, our pushback coincided with a significant deterioration in the weather at Gatwick and a flurry of landing planes, which meant it was 40 minutes before we were airborne and despite it being an uneventful flight we were still 15 minutes late landing at Madrid.

Thankfully, being at the front of the plane meant that I was able to get through immigration whilst there were only a couple of rows of passengers ahead of me and with hand luggage only, I was through customs and out to the arrivals hall in reasonable time.

With almost perfect timing as I reached the bus stop the shuttle bus to my hotel for the night pulled up and shortly after midnight, I was all tucked up in my hotel room.