Living in London

I returned home to London today while Linda remains in Prague throughout the week for her work. My original flight from Prague had a 60 minute layover in Munich. There were only 8 passengers on the 30 seater turbo-prop and I was becoming a little distraught when my flight was posted with a 40 minute delay.I had no expectation that I would make the connecting flight and began to resign my self to a long day in airports. Worse, based on previous experience with delayed flights I had no expectation that my luggage would arrive at my final airport on the same flight as me.

The smaller airplanes (such as turbo-prop jobs) do not rank a terminal gate and are relegated to park on the tarmac at what seems like miles from the terminal. Arriving into Munich with only 20 minutes to make my connecting flight I was pleasantly surprised to find a separate car and driver ready to whisk me and the three other London-bound passengers around the tarmac directly to the gate of the London flight. Maybe parking on the tarmac isn't such a disadvantage after all. I still wasn't sure where my bag was but I was relieved to have made my connecting flight.

The icing on the cake was when my suitcase was the SECOND bag to come tumbling onto the luggage carousel at Heathrow. The original check-in agent in Prague had labelled the bag "HOT" and Lufthansa delivered!