Two Iberia planes, including my favourite CRJ! I’d forgotten that beauty came to BRU on a Sunday.
Ready to depart for Oviedo.
ElAl.
I don’t like the Biman scheme, but when a DC10 arrives you cannot ignore it!
We approached the coast (don’t know wheter it was the Belgian coast or the Dutch coast).
The coastline.
Soon we began our descent into Brussels. The Captain had announced that it was cloudy and raining in Brussels.
A wonderful sight after leaving vile NCHell – Belgium!!
We descended towards runway 25L, and it was a slightly turbulent descent through clouds. We touched down at 13:02 and taxied to the terminal. It was great to be back!
Martinair – parked alongside us.
We collected our luggage and had a meal and some Vieux Temps in Brussels Cafe before catching the sh*tty into Brussels and heading to our hotel.
View from our seat.
Our scheduled departure time was 10:40, but, thanks to the gate change and the stupid airport staff not announcing the change, people were late boarding. We pushed back at 10:51, after receiving a copy of Connect.
Connect.
We were told that the flight would last 1 hour 15 minutes. We taxied to runway 07 and took off and 10:58. It was so nice to see the back of that damned awful airport.
We climbed through low cloud.
What a pity there is no Airshow on the smaller planes, as it would have been very interesting to know our exact routing and whether or not we flew over Scarborough.
The snack was an apple tart. I didn’t eat it as I’ve had them before and don’t like them. I had orange juice to drink.
The chocolates.
At last we saw what we had been waiting for.
A new friend approaches the gate.
Avro RJ85 OO-DJY from the departure lounge.
We had been told that we would be boarding at gate 24. We went into the claustrophobic departure gate area, but DJY looked alot closer than gate 24! We went to gate 24 but there was a sign saying “No flights due to depart from this gate”. The TV monitor listed every flight but ours and there was no one to ask about the sudden, unannounced change of gate! It is all very well the NCHell authorities saying that passengers must check screens for information, but when they can’t be bothered to get off their fat backsides and put the information on the screens then what are you supposed to do?
Eventually we discovered that the flight was now to depart from gate 19.
BritishJet parked alongside DJY.
We boarded up steps in the pouring rain. We were greeted by the female purser and a stewardess stood at the back. We had a front engine view and there was no Business Class.
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