I have travelled a lot and I know that you can have good and bad days Yesterday was a lot of the latter. Gold card checkin for SAS/Lufthansa at ARN took 40 minutes for two people, so by the time it was my turn I only got a middle seat at the second to last row.
This started worrying me as I only had an hour for connection in Frankfurt and then had to switch from A pier to B pier and then go through immigration and extended immigration. It turns out I didn't really have to worry about that...
We boarded in Stockholm at 6.20 (on-time) and then sat on the plane. Due to fog in Frankfurt we where issued a slot time, first for 8.15 and later at 9.00. We finally landed in Frankfurt at around 11.30. And of course one of the few planes that had left Frankfurt on time was the Beirut morning flight, my connection....
After queuing to change my ticket for an hour (And that was the short queue in the lounge) I realized my best option was to stay in Frankfurt and wait for the evening direct flight that leaves at 21.15...so I had a wonderful saturday in the Senator lounge...
When we finally boarded, of course the flight was overbooked, but I got on it. And to top the day off, two passengers didn't show up so we had to wait while they unloaded the luggage....
Anyway, at 1.30 I arrived in Beirut!
Somehow I have always been fascinated by Beirut, and I am really looking forward to the week here. I am here for MENOG5, the twice a year operational conference for the Middle East. MENOGs are always good content and discussions so I am really looking forward to the conference as well!