Right here comes part 2.
I spent the first hour or so up at Myrtle Ave watching the morning arrivals and then decided Id walk over to the visitors center. Its quite a long (45mins) but enjoyable walk and you can watch the 27R departures which at this time were made of of BA Buses and a few European flights. I think I saw a LH 737 departing for DUS with the man who checked in before me on board as I heard him saying he had a 1.5 hour wait in LHR and this was about 1.5 hours after the first flight had landed and I didnt see any other LH aircraft around.

Anyway I bought a few models in the visitors centre and my copy of airliner world. For anyone whos interested I got a QF744,BA744,UA763 old colours and a AF772 which are proudly sitting with my ever growing collection.

I walked back around by the hangers with 3 SAA744s,QF744,BD332 and some BA stuff sitting around for the day and saw a EI321 departing for DUB. I spent a few minutes watching the arrivals from Hatton cross but afther 3pm couldnt be bothered walking back up for 27R landings so I though I would go on a little adventure and explore the terminals. Off the tube I went to terminal 3 and I was quite dissapointed. My initial reaction was good as I came across te VS check in area which is quite impressive but the rest is a dump. There is a few nice areas like the Gulf Air ticket desk but everything else is odd. The FIDS for each airline are different and I can only imagine what is like when its busy. It is nice however to see all the check in areas for these exotic airlines. Check in was being prepared for the evening JAL flights etc.

Anyhow after being dissapointed with no timetables on offer I went to T2 and it was worse. If I was any taller my head would be scrapping off the ceiling. I got 1 timetable from Swiss and got out of there. I headed back to T1 and picked up a Cyprus air timetable.
T1 is defintley the best between 1,2 and 3. I grapped another magazine and a burger king and headed for secuirity with the boarding card sour boots had given me in the morning. Secuirity was quick and painless.
I picked up a few items from the shops and headed for gates 80-90 which provide great photograpy oppourtunities off landing traffic.
However countless EI Airbuses kept obstructing the view. I saw EI-DEE the A320 which took me home from MAN last month,I had seen her that morning aswell departing and hour late to Seville.
I saw some great traffic during my 3 hours here including EK,QR,BA,BD,AZ,SK,TP,Virgin Nigeria,Air China,Air India 744 and 777 by 2.

The 3 hours past quickly and eventually I saw G-MIDK reappear and I knew she would be taking me home again. I was slightly dissapointed that I wasnt to get a Star Alliance logojet but I cant have everthing.

There was a few standbys checked in at the gate and I waited until last. There wasnt even and ID check done which I thought was a little lax. We had to Q in the airbridge for a few mins due to some really slow people putting away there hand baggage. As I walked to my seat a member of cabin crew was having a check in agents worse nightmare. A seat Dup!!!!! 2 passengers assigned the same seat so one has to go and find another seat. Luckily you cant put to many passengers onto a flight but when this happens its unfortunate although better than a secuirity number dup 😮

So I was prepared to be impressed with bmi on the way home they had failed to impress on the outbound flight so how could they do this time. Well we started to push with passengers still standing in the aisle which I though was ridicolous but then again this is bmi. Safety demo was show and we taxied along side a recently arrived Uzbekistan 767. We didnt have to wait to long to take off on 27L the only traffic around was 2 other bmi A320 and A319 bound for some UK/European destination.

We lined up and were under way. I love being able to see T4 at night as all the BA744s are being prepared for their long hauls to Singapore,Bangkok,Hong Kong and the list goes on and on. Again it was another reminder of why I love LHR.

Shortly after take off inflight service began. This time I managed to get a menu without having to run after the cabin crew. I was amazed at this menu. A simple chicken,tomato and chesse sambo was advertised as ”roast chicken salad with cracked balck pepper,maynoisse,vine ripend tomatoes,cucumber and lettuce on malted brown bread” !!!!!!!!!! All I wanted was a chicken sandwich.

Anyway soonthe trolley arrived and I got my ”roast chicken salad with cracked balck pepper,maynoisse,vine ripend tomatoes,cucumber and lettuce on malted brown bread”

I observed the inflight service a little closer this time. One girl was handing out the snacks while the other was running up and down the aisle like Bill Gates with a hand held computer calculating peoples change. Can they not just use a cup and calculator like any normal airline.

Anyway soon we were descending into DUB over the Irish sea past Howth head and onto RWY28. The approach was very very windy with the plane wanting to go in another direction then the pilot was trying to fly it. We hammered it donw on 28 and braked hard and jumped off on Echo 7. We taxied swiftly to C41 and got off. Nothing much happening at this time as all the European night stoppers would follow soon after. The only one there at that time was the Malev 737-700 but it was being prepard for its night flight to Athens.

So another great day in London over and I was home by 2130.

Im making preperations for my next day trip and Im looking at DUB-STN on FR,STN-EDI on U2 EDI-STN in GSM and DUB-STN on FR.

Thanks for reading.

Mark what reg did you fly in on? When sitting waiting for my flight EI-DEB,E and J were all around.