What to do while you're waiting for a flight delay.

– Find a door to airside and go around kicking aircraft tyres.

– Get a copy of the Koran and start chanting god is great in arabic.

Both of these will make a long delay become interesting in no time!

Starbucks? Stale sandwiches? Luxury! I have been stranded several times at African airports. The worst was probably at Luanda, Angola when TAAG decided to cancel the onward flight and left us all in the terminal. They threw a box of airline (economy of course) meals on the floor and left us there. The very rich were able to buy a transit visa ($400) to go to the local hotel (no soap, radio, $150 for the night). The rest of us sods spent the night in the charming company of mosquitoes, no air conditioning, hard wooden seats and the aroma of the dilapidated toilets (no running water for years). We did not have access to our baggage, nor did they give us any indication when the onward flight would be. How can IATA allow such airlines as members? I wrote to them but of course received no reply.

Well usually most passengers choose to vent their anger, frustration and every possible expletive word under the sun on the staff…I however, would go to a Costa Coffee/Starbucks, buy an over-priced drink and sandwich/cake, sit by a window to consume said items and pass the time away by watching all the other flights taking-off/landing, whilst listening to my iPod!

Read,people watch and usually torment my self by visiting the humidor.

😀 Great idea.