During a work trip, I made a quick side trip to Scotland to see my parents, via EDI:
Back to LHR, got dumped on a remote stand at T5 and then someone started looking for a bus, then they started looking for stairs. Epic light and I'm stuck in an A320. Made the best of it:
Then to ORY, ostensibly for work:
Meeting out of the way, the real purpose of the visit:
And back to LHR again. Grabbed a Philippines A340 (a regular in Finnish airspace) from the hotel, before getting back on Finnair...
...and heading back to HEL:
HEL was HEL, and having 25 minutes' delay out of LHR due to a no-show made a tight connection still tighter. Worse still, it led to the "one that got away" for this trip: No sooner were we loaded into the inevitable bus right past passport control to the wrong end of the airfield than Hekla Aurora took off on the far side of the airport
Compared to that, not getting my bag was a minor inconvenience.
Somewhere in all that mess, I sneaked past 1000 uploads.
My friend and I applied for airline jobs in Australia, but they didn't Qantas.