The
desk clerk of Hotel Avión told us to
check the hotel cafetería (coffee
shop) while we were waiting for him to get his car ready to take us to the
airport. We ordered 2 orange juice natural
(3€ each) and they came with a coffee cake.
6:37 AM – Vigo: Hotel Avión – machine in cafetería for making orange juice (natural) behind the bar.
At
the airport check-in, the lady at
the Iberian counter told us our flight was delayed and sent us to another
counter to check on other flight possibilities. The lady at the second counter
finally understood that our flight was not Iberian and sent us to the AirEuropa
check-in counter, where we got boarding passes starting with the 8:55 am flight
AEA 7311.
9:02 AM – Vigo: AEA flight 7311 at takeoff from
Vigo. View across city to coast and Cíes islands on horizon.
9:02 AM – Vigo: AEA flight 7311 at takeoff
from Vigo. View across city to coast and clearer view of Cíes islands (you can
make out the white beach of Praia das Rodas just left of the wingtip).
On
the AEA flight to Madrid, nothing to eat or drink was complementary (only agua del grifo [tap water]). So we got
one müsli bar (1.50€) and one bag of mixed nits and dried fruit (2.99€).
When
we arrived in Madrid around 10 am,
we had a short time before our connecting flight and had to get to another
terminal (A). We got off the plane onto a bus to the terminals and got off at a
stop where we could see a sign for terminals A and B, but we should have stayed
on the bus. We found that it was a long walk from there to our gate, and
another bus did not come. So a security man told us we could go upstairs and
walk to terminal A in 10 minutes if we hurried. As we walked, signs said it was
25 min to Terminal A; so we speed-walked and ran. However, we had to go through
passport control, which further delayed us. After passport control, we got to
the Delta part of Terminal A; a young lady from Delta dressed like a counter
person ran to meet us (along the way, one security man said he would call ahead
and tell them we were coming), and she ran with us to gate A2, where we were
rushed aboard, just before the 11:05 am takeoff. The flight attendant had to
ask a man to move out of one of our seats, since he had thought we were no
shows.
The
on-screen flight tracker showed that our flight would cross the Atlantic coast
about halfway between Vigo and Porto, Portugal.
MT 6:58 PM – Somewhere over US: MT spotted land
through clouds.
MT 7:42 PM – Somewhere over US: MT spotted land
through clouds again.
MT 7:59 PM – Somewhere over US: beginning of
sunset above clouds.
MT 8:01 PM – Somewhere over US: pink clouds at
sunset.
MT 8:13 PM – Somewhere over US: more sunset.
MT 8:23 PM – Kansas City: lights as we approached
terminal.
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