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EK926 CAI-DXB A380-800 A6-EEO Dep: sched 0245 / actual 0309 Arr: sched 0710 / actual 0703 A minor hurdle at EK check in as there was no ticket in the system to allow me to check in from, but five minutes with the TK rerouting paperwork and the service desk chap had it all sorted out. Check in...

I wandered around CAI T3 for ten or so minutes and could only see a Burger King upstairs as a seating option that wasn’t a token local concessions stand selling packaged cough, so I wandered over to T2 to see what I could find there. Hopefully there would even be the EK office and I could...

And to think, I did actually have a TK boarding pass in my hand for about five minutes between the check in desks and the ticket office. That would have been keeping with the thread title as an unexpected bonus *A airline for the trip. It would have also helped my TK Elite status requal. I’ll...

This is a picture from the app after the fact, but the message I received was the bottom one. 65 minute delay. Hmm. I have a scheduled arrival of 0005 and then next flight at 0135 local at IST. So there’s most of my 90 minute transit gone and that’s best case scenario. Open up FR24 and look up...

On descent into Cairo there was a view of the Giza plateau through the window. The iPhone image didn’t do it justice but there were views of the pyramids and sphinx through the Cairo haze. Inflight wifi worked intermittently but well enough to confirm that my bags were indeed still updating...

AZ896 FCO-CAI A321-200neo EI-HXF Dep: sched 1240 / actual 1253 Arr: sched 1655 / actual 1642 I had seen pictures of the AZ ‘Azzuri Blue’ jets before and saw a couple distant whilst taxiing in with IB, but when you get up close to them they are gorgeous. We had to go through a bus gate to get...

IB3230 MAD-FCO A321-200 EC-IJN Dep: sched 0845 / actual 0944 Arr: sched 1110 / actual 1130 Boarding came up on the monitors in the lounge at the expected time about 0815, so I walked to the gate and found people standing around. Joined the five or so others in the Group 1 lane and waited. At...

Up early next morning after only about 4 hours sleep thanks to IBs dick-around with getting my new ticket and getting luggage back. It was still dark and drizzling in Madrid. I was concerned getting to the foyer and finding plenty of others waiting for the same timed shuttle back to the...

I was calling ET because I hadn’t had the chance to read through the J fare conditions on my ticket. Usually if you change or cancel before check in closes there are more options, or at least less costly change options, but once it gets to no show territory, tickets have less residual value. I...

We finally pushed back and then taxied around for a while (ie: not to a close runway… of course) and once airborne it was actually a fine flight. As we were on finals was about when my connection should have been departing. ☹️ I spent the flight reading the Covermore travel insurance pds to...

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And so it begins. I will record here for posterity, that my return flights home should have been: LIS-MAD-CAI (IB) / CAI-ADD-BKK (ET) / BKK-SIN-MEL (SQ) / MEL-CBR (QF) IB8871 LIS-MAD CRJ-1000 EC-LPN Dep: sched 1230 / actual 1448 Arr: sched 1455 / actual 1637 The first hint of a problem was...

<brief interlude of reality and note that Murphy has taken an absolute stranglehold of my return flights. I should be writing up flight notes but instead am just scrambling to find a way home… isn’t it nice how when I leave gaps and overnight stops in the travel plan everything goes well, but as...

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To get back to mainland Portugal from Madeira, I redeemed TK miles for the three of us. J internal to a country via A* awards cost 15K miles per person (was increased this year from a previous 10K - that was a bargain in places like the US!) The best timed flights were actually FNC-OPO-LIS on TP...

Whilst I was up golfing, the family drove past the airport. FNC has steep drops at both ends of the runway. As part of a recent upgrade where they lengthened the runway they used pillars to build out over a cove. It’s an impressive structure.

There was of course some golf played on a spectacular hilly course situated high above the FNC airport. Noting my earlier comment about walking, even though the green fee rate included a golf cart in the cost, I chose to take a trolley and to walk. The course has 27 holes and because the...

Whilst in Madeira Mrs Scarlett went up into the hills for a hike and dropped the young’un and I off in the town of Monte which sits directly up the hills above Funchal. We were going to have a look around the town and then catch the cable car back down to the city. It is a very nice village...

Our time in Madeira was shorter than in the Azores and I think that was probably for the best. Definitely more party life and tourists on Madeira and a more busy vibe, not helped by the daily infestation of the cruising crowd. Walking around was okay, but driving was quite the experience...

In Madeira the relief was crazy, especially driving around the main city of Funchal. Tiny roads and quite steep when heading up or down. The clutch really got a work out at times as did the brakes. Lots of stopping to allow opposite direction traffic to pass. The airport itself has been...