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Nov. 28th, 2008 04:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
peteryoungYes, I am stuck in Bangkok, and I need to get back to London by 3 December at the latest to go to werk.
With both airports closed and all airline crew evacuated yesterday, I've had to work out a Cunning Plan... two, in fact.
Plan A: Drive 2 hours south east tomorrow morning to a military airport which is being temporarily used for commercial flights. Scrounge a lift on a Cathay Pacific relief flight to Hong Kong which is due to leave at lunchtime (probably a jump seat in the cockpit if I ask nicely). Wait a few hours for two BA flights to London, for which I've had to buy a flexible standby ticket. I'd say the chances of me actually getting on that Cathay flight are fair to good.
Plan B: Hire a van with a few other passengers tomorrow and drive 14 hours south overnight to Phuket, and take the Dragonair flight to Hong Kong from there the next day. I've bought the (fully refundable) ticket already. If all goes well, this will mean arriving in London a day later than Plan A, but still in time for werk.
Most people only get to work out one exit route, if at all, but I've worked out two. Such are the joys (or otherwise) of international aviation when things go exceedingly tits-up.
And all this on the day Benji and I discovered we are expecting a baby next August. Excuse me, but I'm a little overwhelmed right now...
With both airports closed and all airline crew evacuated yesterday, I've had to work out a Cunning Plan... two, in fact.
Plan A: Drive 2 hours south east tomorrow morning to a military airport which is being temporarily used for commercial flights. Scrounge a lift on a Cathay Pacific relief flight to Hong Kong which is due to leave at lunchtime (probably a jump seat in the cockpit if I ask nicely). Wait a few hours for two BA flights to London, for which I've had to buy a flexible standby ticket. I'd say the chances of me actually getting on that Cathay flight are fair to good.
Plan B: Hire a van with a few other passengers tomorrow and drive 14 hours south overnight to Phuket, and take the Dragonair flight to Hong Kong from there the next day. I've bought the (fully refundable) ticket already. If all goes well, this will mean arriving in London a day later than Plan A, but still in time for werk.
Most people only get to work out one exit route, if at all, but I've worked out two. Such are the joys (or otherwise) of international aviation when things go exceedingly tits-up.
And all this on the day Benji and I discovered we are expecting a baby next August. Excuse me, but I'm a little overwhelmed right now...
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Date: 2008-11-28 05:37 pm (UTC)