Bad news - my flight from LA to Sydney has been cancelled. I'm now booked on a flight at 10 to midnight to Brisbane, with a 5 hour wait to connect to a Sydney flight! Pretty bad service! Oh well, God knows what He's doing!
When I got out to the shuttle terminals, I was told that my shuttle would be leaving from a different spot. At the appointed time it went right past! Thank God for mobile phones! An expensive call but it worked out that the local assistant arranged a local shuttle to take me to where the coach was picking up at a hotel, so I finally was on the coach. At that stage it was doing pick-ups here and there and I was nervously thinking about my airport arrival time. However once we were on the road, apart from 30 minutes at the boarder checkpoint when we all had to get off, get our carry-ons scanned and go through security, it was all fine and I was at Seatac in good time. When I checked in, I was put on First Class to LA (nice); don't know where I'll be sitting to Brisbane but it's at least Premium Business. The great thing about First Class was that I got through express security: there were at least 500 people queued for the normal security, if not more.
At Seatac: I got a Starbucks coffee (lunch had been crackers and water on the bus!) and settled here in the airport with free wifi, and power as well, so I'll be all set for my laptop power for a while. It's about an hour still to boarding, but I'm happy catching up on all the stuff I've had to let go in emails up till now.
In LA: Flight Seattle to LA was lovely in first class! I was in seat 1A. The young man beside me started chatting and we ended up talking all the way; he's about 30 and getting married shortly. We just had a lot of fun: passed the time very quickly and Bart and I are now the best of friends :o) . Now I'm in the posh Star Alliance lounge waiting to board at about 11.00pm; it's a really nice one - quiet, big, with plenty of food and alcohol but I'll be having dinner around midnight before I go to sleep (which is okay because I had lunch on the last flight at 6.30pm or so). After dinner and a glass of wine, I'll take a couple of the sleeping pills we've used previously. If I was flying into Sydney, I possibly wouldn't but seeing I have to go to Brisie, I won't need to be so alert. Bart decided to try reclining the seat not long before we were getting to LA - the first class seats are like the old business class - it really went back a long way, and is very comfortable, so that's what I expect to be sleeping in on the long haul flight.
God is so amazing - I paid a total of $27.27 for the privilege of First and Business! because it was supposed to be premium economy on points but somehow ended up business and first. It makes such a huge difference being comfortable. Even on that short flight we got a small meal - salad and meat, whereas cattle class got a coffee/tea and a cookie.
Even with priority, LA security was slower, about 40 in front of me but there could have been 800 people in the other lines!
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