Finaly in Mexico

The customs officer stamped the inner cover of my passport, by mistake. We arrived with 5 hours delay, around midnight, after 28 hours.

Another Try...

Finally boarded, the aircraft was heading to the take off runway, but suprisingly, after about almost 30 minutes of taxiing the captain announced that due to a technical problem we had to return to the gate. We were told there was some problem with the door. An update after about 20 minutes informed us that actually they were suspecting a fuel leakage from the left wing. They would empty first the tank to check if it was broken or if the leakage was due to the tank being too full. Ten minutes later we were also told that we would wait in the airplane and not go out, because if we went out the crew would need to change as they would exceed the maximum allowed working hours due to the delay. At this point we were already 2 hours late with the take off. After another 20 minutes the captain announced that the tank was being filled in with the fuel we had consumed (so they had not emptied it after all). It seemed the tank was ok and we would be ready for take off in half an hour, that is 3 hours after the schedulled time.

Half an hour later... We were announced that the airplane was not in condition to take off. They had found fuel traces in places which fuel should never reach. The new plane - a plane supposed to leave to Beijing. So here we are at gate E20 boarding again.

Before the Flight

An over eleven hours flight ahead after a sandwich, some pizza, a coke and 5 hours in Amsterdam. My longest flight so far was 4 hours. We are now boarding on a double deck airplane. The next post will be from Mexico.

Off to Mexico City

Early flight at 6.15 from Helsinki to Amsterdam. It is always a bit of a pity to leave Finland when it is nice weather over there. Because there's so little of it during a year. We are flying KLM, with a 5 hour break in the Holland's capital. Interesting thing, the pilot turned the seat belt sign off immediately after the take off, while the plane was still going up very steep.

Excellent breakfast on the flight. Almost everything was organic: the cheese, the yogurt, the jam, the bun and even the paper-like label on it, which was eatable. I was impressed with it, never seen it on any other flight (but I do not travel that much).