Wednesday, May 19, 2010

How many flights can you squeeze into one day?

Suitcase, despite being 10 lbs overweight, checked without any additional charge.
Box of food checked successfully with charge. To my surprise, I discovered that I would not have to bungee cord my box to my suitcase at each transfer, my baggage was checked all the way through.

Flight #1:
PHL to FRA (Frankfurt) - I must give Lufthansa credit for providing an excellent gluten free meal on the plane. It was filet of salmon in a lemon butter sauce with some veggies and potatoes. I would really have liked to have assisted the gentleman behind me in realizing that you do not have to punch the touch screen to get it to recognize your touch. I also had the pleasure of sitting next to the "fat" guy. I'd really like to know how it is possible to sit two obese people next to each other - it must be very uncomfortable.

Flight #2:
FRA to OTP (Bucharest) - The flight sat on the runway for about 30 minutes but made up some of the time in the air. I was very worried upon arrival that I would miss my connecting flight, but I made it with about 10 minutes to spare. Security get a little friendly when frisking you and I, being quite ticklish, was jumping and giggling while they frisked me. I was completely felt up by the female security guard - she totally grabbed my boobs!

Flight #3 (The Horror):
OTP to CLJ (Cluj-Napoca) - Our flight was delayed about half an hour, so I only had 20 minutes before my connecting flight was scheduled to board. I managed to get off the plane quite quickly and through security easily. There were no signs indicating the boarding gate, let alone indicating that there was a 3:25 flight to Cluj! I began yelling at the ground staff, "Scuzatima" and "intzelegit engleza." I was walked over to a security checkpoint, went through the checkpoint and asked the security staff again for the gate info. I had been sent to the completely wrong terminal. So, I had to run to another terminal, go through seurity, again, and I managed to make my flight as it was delayed by 30 minutes. You would think that my travel saga would end there, but no. I get on a bus that takes me out into the middle of the runway to this:
The flight was actually very smooth, and we landed safely at Cluj-Napoca airport:

I very much wanted to know where the rest of the airport was. There also was no lighting in the baggage claim, making baggage identification quite challenging.

Greetings from Cluj-Napoca!

3 comments:

  1. OMG! That is so funny. Charles said "Gillian mentioned her boobs already in her blog". LOL! I am so glad you made it safely and equally glad your food didn't get confiscated! Yay!!

    We miss you already!!!

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  2. Glad all went well........did not know that you had any boobs!!!!!!!!!!!

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  3. Tell Charles I thought of him as I typed that, I was worried he might be bored without the mention of boobs.

    Thanks a lot Mum!

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