Zorac's LiveJournal

OK, so I get to check-in at Gatwick, and find that US Air have changed my connecting flight from Philadelphia to Chicago for one an hour and a half later. And no, there are no other available connecting flights. So nice of them to contact me in advance to warn me that they will be screwing up my plans. It's lucky that the girl at check-in just happened to notice the change, or I could easily have gone on in blissful ignorance :(

Had a joyously early start this morning - although I guess I should be thankful that there is public transport at that hour rather than lamenting the timing of it. All the same, I was in transit more than 5 hours before my 'plane was due to depart. As mentioned earlier, there was a nasty little surprise waiting for me at check-in. After checking that there was no other flight I could take for the second leg, I went upstairs to get some breakfast, and then to an internet café to let hermorrine know about my late arrival.

En route, there was a sad lack of in-flight entertainment, owing to the rather low-tech nature of the 'plane, but I had books (Tithe and Jennifer Government) plus some Percy/Oliver on the iBook (which I read while the chap next to me was ploughing through Order of the Phoenix) to keep me from getting bored. More of the same during my 3 hour stopover at Philadelphia airport and on the connecting flight to Chicago - thankfully without further delay.

hermorrine met me at O'Hare, and happily had been able to re-arrange our plans for later in the evening, so all was well there - then it was time for food and sleep before another day in transit.