BA Club Europe to Santorini
Our gate was finally posted at 11:05am or just 50 minutes before departure. We lucked out this morning with nearby Gate A13 assignment.
BA intra-Europe Business Class as with most any European Business Class is simply a garbage product. Economy seats with an open middle seat is not Business. But it is what it is and you suck it up and endure when it is the only option. And London-Santorini nonstop is indeed convenient if you can survive the flight. Fortunately, I was able to grab bulkhead seats which is the only good seating on the plane.
Today's menu.
Despite a delayed start to boarding, boarding was complete by 11:50am and we appeared ready to push. Until we weren't and the captain announced an tech issues that he needed to resolve. Kudos to him with timely updates and excellent lay explanations about the problem and progress. "Imagine you are at home and your computer isn't doing what it should. You reboot it try again. That's kind of what we're going to do".
With the help of a BA tech and a reboot, all systems checked out and we were ready to go.
In the air, excellent service from a pleasant although at times annoyingly chatty FA.
OK, I know we're sitting in Economy seats, but the food tray was way too small. Cheese, dessert and starter with no room to spare.
The smoked salmon starter was good.
As was the chicken. But there was even less room now. Jeez.
OK, problem solved by moving the cheese and dessert to the middle divider.
With no one across the aisle in 1DF, I moved over to get a little sleep.
Our inflight entertainment today. LOL.
Great views on our descent into Santorini.
How cool is this? Flying right over Oia, our home for the next 4 days.
Thira Airport has one runway and no jet bridges. Indeed the tarmac is 50 feet below the "terminal".
The arrivals area.
And rental car counters.
Pleasant Avis agent processed our paperwork and we were on our way 10 minutes later. The airport terminal as we looped around and headed for Oia.
