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England – and how British Airways managed to get me there in the end

February 16th, 2006

I made it to England yesterday, but it sure wasn’t easy. It sounded easy enough – get on a plane in Düsseldorf, go straight to Manchester, be picked up by a colleague together with some others also arriving the same day and go up to Carlisle. That of course would have worked nicely… if the flight to Manchester hadn’t been canceled because of some unspecified problem with the jet that was supposed to fly us there. As luck would have it, there was a flight to London from the gate right next to ours that was delayed enough for me and some other passengers to still get on. Then another flight from London to Manchester. Delayed, of course – official reason announced to the waiting passengers: “We can’t find the cabin crew and don’t know where they are”. It’s a good thing we were being picked up in Manchester as a group and I would have been the first one to arrive, with about three hours waiting time before the last person arrived – so in the end, all the others had to wait for 30 minutes for me to arrive, but hey, at least I still got a ride.

So now I’m in Carlisle and we already had a first meeting to decide who is going to be in which meetings and when they are going to happen. I guess this one week is going to be over in a blink of an eye. Hopefully we get some nice weather this weekend for a quick trip to the Lake District (my real reason for being here… *g*).

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