Ok it's Monday, the day the kids fly out. WE are already packed, thank's to Tracey. and decide to set off early and have a leasurely drive up to Gatwick. Halfway up the A3 (M) we stop for a toilet break and ask the kids if they want some lunck and a rest before going on. Luckily they decide they want to eat at MacDonalds in the airport. So we carry on our Journey.
We arrive at Gatwick at 13:00hrs a full 3 hours before the kids are due to take off according to our "E" ticket that we recieved from British airways. We then travel up and check them in with the skyflyers desk, (As they are travelling unaccompanied). Where the lady on the desk says we have to report back to them at 13:45hrs. Ok no problems so far except they seem to want the kids there real early.
We go down and have our Macs then go back up to the desk to report in as requested. It is at this time Tracey decides to ask the attendant why they had to be back so early. She replies that the plane the kids are on takes off at 14:30hrs. So a discussion then insues regarding the take off time we were given on the "E" ticket and the actual take off time, which is a full 1 hour 30 minutes before.
So we finally got the kids off and watched as they went through the gates. We had to wait around for a little while to make sure that there were no problems with the plane and then go back to the desk and check everything was still alright before leaving the airport to drive home. So after walking around the shops for half an hour we went back to the desk. The attendant there was pleased to see us as she had been on to the ticket issuers regarding the different take off times, but she had had no response back from them.
At the end of the day it was only my determination that we leave early, and the kids lack of hunger(Or want of a MacDonolds toy) that we made the flight at all. I am sure there must have been others who had the same problem today, let us hope that they also manged to catch the flight.
THOUGHT OF THE DAY
TV NEWS - Yesterday's newspaper read to the illiterates
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