... or so I try to convince myself to keep from being driven mad by the accumulation of inconveniences (BAA security queues ; non-working travellators; holding for a landing slot; parking at a remote stand; the depressing carpeting; etc. etc. etc., to borrow a phrase from "The King and I").
What makes LHR not such a bad place:
And my top reason ...
Still makes me smile ...
<sigh> My colleagues who haven't been to Singapore thinks I've concocted an airport called Changi as an escape from my routine travel reality.
What makes LHR not such a bad place:
- Zone R (though I haven't used it in ages, due to clients being located at the other end of T4 short-haul flights]
- The bacon baguette breakfasts in the First Lounge (soon to be a much-missed perk because someone has been banking his OneWorld miles with TraitorAir )
- Being served by BA crew in Club Europe (I think the best of the European short-haul business class products [MAN-ZRH and MXP-BCN excluded from this category, of course ])
- Hearing the captain announce you've finally been cleared for landing ("Cabin crew, 10 minutes to landing") just sounds so sweet after the too-usual interminable holding pattern
- The view of central London (night or day) as the aircraft makes its approach to land
- The instant camaraderie with fellow travellers that develops when the BA captain, still in that preternaturally calm and reassuring voice, announces that you will be riding a bus to the terminal building
- Feeling the relief of not having to go through FCC as I make my way to immigration control
- IRIS when it works and the people ahead of you know how to use it and there's a slow-moving EU line as the alternative
- Knowing I can trust the cab drivers to take me home as safely and quickly as possible (not quite the feeling I got with a few New York cabbies )
And my top reason ...
- Witnessing scenes such as the one this evening, when someone got p*ssy with the cab dispatcher outside the terminal because he "needed to get to Cape Town" and the cab dispatcher's adamant "Sir, this is LONDON; all the cabs can only get you to LONDON" just wasn't good enough
Still makes me smile ...
<sigh> My colleagues who haven't been to Singapore thinks I've concocted an airport called Changi as an escape from my routine travel reality.
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