Dirty, greasy and tired.....and I'm not
even there yet.
Flight path; May 3rd, 11 am,
customs and check in. 1 pm flight Ottawa to Toronto. 5 pm flight
Toronot to Montreal. 7:45 flight Montreal to Brussels. May 4th,
land in Brussels at 6 am. 12:10 Departure Brussels for Abidjan, Ivory
Coast about 7 hours in the air. After an hour and forty five minutes
on the ground, depart for Monrovia. Arrive and begin circling
As weather can affect air travel, we
circle Roberts Airfield in Monrovia. We then atemp a landing in
heavy thunderstorms and at just below 3000 feet, the pilots decide to
abort the landing do to heavy rain and standing water on the runway.
We circle again. After a few minutes we are diverted to Sierra Leon's
Freetown. After landing without incident, we refuel and wait.
Information trickles in. It appears
that an Air France plane attempted to land after us. They landed
yes, but in the process have wrecked 1100 metres of runway and there
plane. Oh and the other 1800 metres in under water. 7 cm we are
told.
So, after about and hour and a half on
the tarmac in Freetown, we are informed that we will head back to
Brussels. So that's about 6 and bit hours back to Brussels. All in
all about 18 hours in the same seat on the same plane.
After navigating the Brussels airport,
Laurel and I finally made it to the Holiday Inn Brussels Airport and
now we wait and I right this little missive. Waiting to see we can
fly on Sunday at 12:10, or if the repairs will take longer and it
means more like Tuesday. The one lingering question I have and can't
get an answer for is: do I get aeroplan points for this?
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