Chicago Day 1 - Or Stuck at Manchester

Chicago Day 1 – An extended stay at Manchester Airport

So after waking up at 3am, and mobile for the 4:30 National Express coach (express.. that coach? I swear it couldn’t had been more slower) , once again, I reached Manchester airport, and the long hike through the redesigned tunnels to Terminal 3… to be confronted with a 1 hour check-in queue… and a 30 minutes security queue.

I know this is a fact of life when travelling, but it still just makes it less and less intresting

It then got better.

An annoucment at 9:00 “|There will be further information about the delay to this flight at 09:35.”

Uh oh.

09:35 came duley an the words “We regret to annocne that flight has been delayed due to a technical fault. The next posted time of departure is 12:50”

*slilent curse*

Howeer, BMI came throught and presented the vouches for £5.95 for light refreshments – in my lanugague, coffee and a sandwich (coffee made to my spec – ie . strong)

Normallt I wouldn’t be objecting too much… a good time to watch planes land.

However, as had 3 other people at the other end to meet (the one time I do this of course) it’s a ROYAL pain up the jacksie


Ho hum. More tomorrow. For now, please enjoy some plane crazy pictures