The Flight Over...

Up, Up and Away with Delta

As often it the case, flight delays made the departure exciting to say the least. We rode to the airport in Little Rock with Bryan and Laura Burks. Arrived in plenty of time and checked in quickly. We met the McLartys and some of the students at the departure lounge. All was calm and cool,

Then the plane we were about to board, had a flat tire! Fortunately they had a spare and a mechanic on duty. We discovered that it takes 2 hours to change a plane tire. During that 2 hours, storms hit the Atlanta area and closed the airport there. That backed up traffic quite a lot. We were to meet the students in Atlanta. They were flying in from various locations. Some were not to make it in time!

We did get to Atlanta in plenty of time, but of course with everything backed up, our departure was delayed quite a bit. That allowed one of our party to actually get there and onto the flight, just in time.

We arrived at Heathrow a little late, but ok. All our luggage, well almost all of it arrived. The student who caught the flight just in time was missing her luggage. It took an hour in the queue to report and track her luggage. They found it - still in Atlanta and said it would arrive tomorrow (it did arrive ok).

We hopped on the bus and traveled to the Travelodge at Pear Tree in Oxford. This was to be home for 6 nights. We spent some time at the service center near the Travelodge. It had a Starbucks, KFC and Waitrose.