Blue 1 Blew One

That may be my best title yet, so just go back and read it and savour it a little.

But I gues an explanation would help. So I had a flight booked on the airline Blue 1, basically it is the Scandinavian discount airline, from Helsinki to Warsaw, leaving at 9:40 in the morning. To put it lightly, that didn't quite work out and I didnt arrive into Warsaw until 10pm. Hence Blue 1 blew one.

We took off from Helsinki a bit late, maybe 10 minutes, but no big deal, we can make that up in the air. So the pilot comes on and says that there is heavy fog around Warsaw and that we are going to have to circle for half an hour. The flight was supposed to take 1hr 50min, so no big deal. But we just kept circling and circling. I couldn't understand what the pilot was saying half the time when he told us what was going on because his English was so bad, but after 3 hours in the air we started going straight for a while and I heard a flight attendant tell everyone that we had run out of fuel (alarming) and that we were headed to Berlin (cool) because we still couldn't land due to the fog.

So we head to Berlin and after 4 hours in the air we finally land. Initially they told us that they would try and get us all to Warsaw from Berlin, but it turns out all of the hotels, trains and other flights were booked solid. Apparently this fog had been hanging over Warsaw for a few days and a lot of flights had been cancelled or sent to Berlin. The plans then changed to taking us all back to Helsinki...another 2 hours on the plane, but first we all had to get off so that they could refuel. All of the passangers stood there beside the plan, on the tarmack, while they refueled. Then it was back on the plane.

On the flight back they offered us free coffee, but no food. I got up at 6am to get this flight and now its 2pm and I still am going on 2 croissants I had for breakfast and the tube of Pringles I had my bag. At first I found the whole thing funny. But as I got hungrier and hungrier I found is less and less amusing. But we made it to Helsinki, where it had become dark by this time (4pm, they are too far north!) and we all had to try and book onto the LOT flight leaving at 8pm. I was luckey, because my bag came out first and I got the booking counter ahead of most people and grabbed the last seat on the plane. Many people had to spend another night in Helsinki. So I took my meal voucher (25 euros, score!) and had some dinner made some calls and waited while they delayed the flight a few times.

Finally we took off, over an hour late, but conditions improved and finally I made it to Warsaw! After 12 hours of travel and enough time on various planes to make it to Canada and back, I landed at last. So here I am, a bit tired but glad to have made it at last. Dzido and I are reunited and the world is our oyster.