Guess Who Am I

Just my luck. I am currently going to travel to China but sitting in the airplane waiting it to depart. We have some technical difficulties at the moment.

So far everything I have seen is just the airplane video system, which doesn’t yet do anything.

And the situation in Helsinki is pretty red… Meaning that lots of delays and cancellations.

Hehe. The first flight is already delayed. Let’s see how well this ends.

Well, we got hit by the snow storm during the yesterday. Nothing too dramatic but quite a strong wind at the same time, which caused lots of delays to happen in our airports. Which in turn … are still affecting our flights during today, the day I am supposed to fly. See the pattern here? It is always happening when I am supposed to fly. Today they have canceled already two flights before my flight so I hope the flight will departure today on time so I can catch my next flight.

Haha, I am so used to all of this that it even doesn’t cause me stress any longer. When I am flying then most likely everything will go badly. Hmm, when did I have the previous non-eventful flight? I cannot remember, the past one year has been full of different kind of delays or problems. When it is about the fog or snow storm, when it is about some technical problems. Always delays. More time to spend at the airport.

The previous post was about the fog in Paris. What exactly happened? I didn’t yet have time to describe it earlier but here it comes. Well, the whole airplane indeed spend some extra time in the Helsinki-Vantaa airport to wait the permission to fly to Paris. Paris was heavily affected by the fog, which was still visible in there when we finally got there after being 1.5 hours late. Without saying, it was obvious that the next flight left at the same time we landed. Air France tried to offer us a flight next day, which would have meant that there is no way to get into the important meeting in time. A little bit more investigation and pressure for them (Air France booked tickets actually helped quite a much, story would have been different with Finnair booked tickets) and they found something, which they told us in very careful matter – let’s say, almost scared. Something they called crazy plan but for their complete surprise we accepted it. Get transited to London and then to New York and then to Bogotá, we would arrive to the final destination at 5:30 in the morning. Nice!

So, you get to your final destination after traveling 32 hours. I must say that it was my shortest visit to USA ever, and yes, we had to go through immigration and customs. I have a new stamp from USA now in my passport while I didn’t get off the airport at all. And after spending 12 hours in the Bogotá, it was time to travel back to Europe and back to Finland. The return flight actually went smoothly and after 3 days without a proper sleep it was quite nice feeling to find a bed again at home.

Flying can be really fun sometimes.