17 Months later, and my pet hate, the All day Deli, hasn’t got any better. In fact, it looks to have shrunk to me, as you don’t even get a doggy bag anymore.

We climbed making a 180 degee turn, this was the view of the ‘Airfield’, looking along 28.

I had a good look at the Safety Card, partly because this was only my second flight on a 145 (and the previous one was only the 19 minutes from Basel to Zurich on my way to Barcelona), partly because there wasn’t much else to do (The Newspaper racks at the gate hadn’t been filled because of it being a bank holiday 😡 :rolleyes: ). I’m still convinced (despite Bmused’s insistence) that BA took the same picture for the landing on water image as they used for the BAC1-11. There’s just something about the nose that isn’t right…

Anyway, as I said, 40 minutes after Boarding, and we pushed back, and promptly entered a Traffic Jam. Because the Taxiway to Runway 16 was being dug up for relaying, all departing aircraft were having to backtrack down 16 individually, resulting in a rather long queue. (see also map of ZRH. The stand we’d been sitting on was above Nr2, The tailsline up was looking along the dock above Nr1, and Nr3 is the new Midfield Dock E).

It took a further half hour of queing before we were airborne ourselves, but this allowed me to snap a couple of the Heavies heading to the States as they headed down 16 (Landings were on 14, but I was the wrong side of the aircraft to get any pics).

Anyway, shortly after I took that, the info on the departures screens said that the flight was delayed, about 20 past ten, I saw a BA ERJ145 taxiing in towards a remote stand on the far side of the Terminal, however, I was texting Ren at the time, so I didn’t get a chance to photograph what was obviously to be my Aircraft as it arrived. G-EMBO was it’s registration. Despite the screens showing a delay (it [i]had[/b] been scheduled in at 9:55), by twenty to we were on the Bus out to the Aircraft, only 5 minutes after scheduled departure Time, so it wasn’t looking as being too bad…

G-EMBO on Stand, whilst Boarding…