After an interesting and enjoyable day in Leeds, I returned to the airport. The bus was £2 return, amazing considering it takes well over 30 minutes! I checked in abut an hour and a half before departure and got card number 53. On confirmation that the aircraft was indeed a Fokker 100 I had an interesting chat with the check in Lady, who told me it was the final one left in the fleet, and that it would be leaving imminently, so I was very lucky to get on it! The only window seat available was on the left and at the very back, which I accepted as better than an aisle seat.

Security was very quick, and I proceeded through to a very busy airside. MD80 TF-JXA was parked up on the stand immediatly in front of me, operating for Jet2 I guess. There were no seats available downstairs, but upstairs was deathly quiet and I waited there. There was no good viewing areas, the best one I found was looking out over the side taxiway, with the runway visible in the distance. I managed to shoot a few pictures of TF-JXA departing, but the quality is very poor, partly because of the distance and partly because of the light.

After about an hour I watched G-BXWE arrive from LHR, and taxi to my right, about half an hour later and we were boarding through Gate 7. I had row 22 so was allowed on first, however at the gate I was apprehended by one of the staff. My boarding card had been marked, although I hadnt realised, and I was asked if I wouldnt mind surredering my seat to a mother and child who wanted it. I was told that they couldnt upgrade me to business (damn!) but they could give me the emergency exit row with more legroom. I gracefully accepted, disapointed that I now had an aisle seat. However as I was first one, I sidled up to the window seat instead, and the gentleman that was supposed to sitting there didnt mind when I asked him fi it was alright, thankfully!

The flight was fairly full, and we taxiied out to 32 again, backtracking, before departing, again quite briskly. We climbed out over the city, and soon dinner was being served, a surprisingly filling Ham and Egg sandwhich and a can of lemonade. Once again it was over all to quickly, and we were descending into Heathrow. We had departed 28 at City in the morning, and so I had got myself a right hand seat so as to be able to finally see London as we arrived onto 27L in the evening. However as with every single one of my other flights into Heathrow, we landed on 09L 😡 After frustratingly straining to see as much as possible on landing, we vacated briskly and taxxied to T1.

Overall a nice set of flights from bmi, however I was far more pleased about getting the interesting aircraft types! Exam results permitting I will be going to uni in Leeds from this september, so all things being well this route will be one I will be using quite regularly, and hopefully the LCY route will perform a bit better in the future enabling me to try the ERJ135!