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Infrequent But Delicious - The Mike Blog
A story of two sundays
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Yesterday I woke up in Hong Kong, one of my favourite places. I thought I had to get a flight at 9 AM, but it was actually at 2:50 PM, which was a nice surprise!

After getting to the airport via the convienent Airport Express (you check your bags in at the train station), and enjoying a few delicious Thai treats at the Thai lounge (note: when you fly a lot - over 35,000 miles a year, and you get access to lounges, and you have the choice between a United Airlines lounge and a Thai Airways lounge, always pick Thai! You will thank me some day!), I made a timely arrival and boarded my trusty Airbus 340-300 AKA Air Canada flight 8.

I had 3 whole hours in Vancouver to catch my connecting flight to LAX, which I figured was more than enough for anything unexpected. But then a sensor on one of the Engines failed, and we spent about an hour and a half waiting while they opened the engine up and repaired it, which was a great thing to do.

The pilot however decided to wait until we were taking off (instead of the 1.5 hours on the ground where I could have used my cell phone) to let us know that because of strong winds, we would take an extra 1.5 hours to get there, meaning we would be three hours late... arriving 30 minutes after my connecting flight. So I spent my first Sunday (HK time - 9 AM to 11 PM) on the flight, wondering what would happen to my connecting flights, and then my second Sunday (Vancouver time, 1 PM to 11:30 PM) scrambling to get on standby on full flights and make it here to Tucson to speak at a conference on time this morning.

Two Sundays on planes. Now that's a weekend! :) Once I'm back in Toronto I hope to have time to post some pics and highlights of my trips to New Zealand, Australia, and Hong Kong!

March 5, 2007 | 11:32 PM Comments  1 comments

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icycool Stephanie S
March 7, 2007 | 2:54 AM

i love flying =D i would probably devote an entire post to this as well... had i been as lucky to go flying two sundays in a row..
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