Yesterday I started flying towards Malawi. In -25 degrees I left Helsinki. Knowing that there will be no need for winter jackets, hats, gloves, layers and layers of clothes for the next 2 years it made the leaving quite easy. But must say Helsinki looked really beautiful when looking from above, really white like winter should be.
The next departure from Frankfurt didn´t go quite as expected.. We were just talking with few fellow travelers today that the announcements were not so nice, it went somehow like this:
- Dear passengers, we have a problem in the engine one, we will try to sort it out but we will get back to the airplane parking space to get the engineers working on it.
- Dear passengers, we will now try the engine one if it works correctly ( after this you could see a smoke coming out from the engine)
- Dear passengers, we are still working on the engine problem, we will let you know in about 15 minutes
- Dear passengers, we we will now try the engine one and then make the final decision if to depart with this plane or not ( following some weird engine sounds)
- Dear passengers, the problem has been solved and we will shortly depart to Johannesburg
Great.. just what I wanted to hear before 11 hour flight and then still depart with the same plane. But we made it all the way to Jo´burg and I slept like a baby again! :)
I missed the flight to Lilongwe, Malawi this morning because of the engine one problem delay back in Frankfurt but got a really nice hotel room and enough vouchers for food and met some really nice people so let´s hope to see Malawi tomorrow! :)
The next departure from Frankfurt didn´t go quite as expected.. We were just talking with few fellow travelers today that the announcements were not so nice, it went somehow like this:
- Dear passengers, we have a problem in the engine one, we will try to sort it out but we will get back to the airplane parking space to get the engineers working on it.
- Dear passengers, we will now try the engine one if it works correctly ( after this you could see a smoke coming out from the engine)
- Dear passengers, we are still working on the engine problem, we will let you know in about 15 minutes
- Dear passengers, we we will now try the engine one and then make the final decision if to depart with this plane or not ( following some weird engine sounds)
- Dear passengers, the problem has been solved and we will shortly depart to Johannesburg
Great.. just what I wanted to hear before 11 hour flight and then still depart with the same plane. But we made it all the way to Jo´burg and I slept like a baby again! :)
I missed the flight to Lilongwe, Malawi this morning because of the engine one problem delay back in Frankfurt but got a really nice hotel room and enough vouchers for food and met some really nice people so let´s hope to see Malawi tomorrow! :)
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