Actually Landing at London and Luggage-less Evenings at Newcastle
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- England Called: बहुत कठिन थी डगर, मगर…
- Actually Landing at London and Luggage-less Evenings at Newcastle
Disclaimer Again: The story in this post has nothing to with any real persons, places, procedures and events and any resemblance thereto is purely coincidental.
The flight that took off from IGIA at 6:00am IST (departure with 2:30hrs delay), was hovering over east of London at about 8:00am GMT of 13th Jan. Not to mention, I liked the in-flight entertainment of British Airways, no comparison with any Domestic Indian liner. All was well until Pilot informed that due to heavy snow, landing clearance will take a while and switched off the seat belt sign after putting it on for landing once, so that passengers could use conveniences again. It was indeed thoughtful. I have seen on domestic flights that even after knowing that they are in queue and will have to encircle half of UP before landing at IGI, pilots do not switch off seatbelt sign. My fellow travelers, an elderly couple from Delhi, who were to catch a connecting flight for visiting their daughter in Philadelphia, US were still hopeful of making it in time to catch their noon flight. Myself was very confident as my connecting flight BA1332 to Newcastle was at 12:30pm.
We hovered over a quarter of England before eventually touching down. But, the pilot informed that the parking bay was not available and it would take another while before we could disembark. We could come out of plane not before 11:00am and cleared immigration in half an hour.
Not even a bird using the airport
