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 was very fast with no baggage and I was off to the CAI EK lounge. Had some after midnight dinner and completed a couple of the above posts and did my best not to look too much like a disheveled zombie.
It’s quite a large lounge but a little dated but filled with staff who wanted to do everything for you: reach for a bottle of water and they’d try to beat you to it! Boarding was called about 0230 and I walked to the gate. Well lookie here:
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Normally when booking flights I know what aircraft I’ll be flying on and where my seats are etc, but I really had no idea and in my fugue state I hadn’t even looked up FR24 to see where my aircraft might be.
So that was a pleasant surprise and I boarded the upper deck via the separate airbridge. The individual J seat was nice, but all I recall is taking off, reclining my seat shortly after takeoff, popping eye mask and earplugs in and then getting about two hours sleep.
Far too quickly I was being woken by the crew to put my seat upright and we descended into DXB. This was also another first for me; over 100 airports visited but never through DXB to that point.
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It was of course an impressive sight to taxi past so many other A380s and B777s.
Off the aircraft, into one of the massive terminals and I set about finding where my connecting flight to BKK would be departing from, then the EK J lounge.
