Fly me to Hong Kong

With only 7 days to go (this time next week we'll be in the air), it seems like a good time to check the flight details. When planning this trip I decided to use the Virgin Miles that I have accumulated over the years and splash out on Upper Class flights. Unfortunately the Virgin (dis)loyalty scheme had other ideas. After weeks of checking the website and numerous phone calls all I could find available was an outbound flight on 5th September returning sometime in October. You'd think they didn't want you to use the miles!

So instead I switched to British Airways and booked into World Traveller Plus class, with the bigger ‘Fatboy’ seats. Hodge and Pete are on the same flight, as is Lons who is in the seat next to me. I think it was a bit of a disappointment for him, he was hoping for someone Blond, Busty and Beautiful and he’s got Fat, Fifty and Flatulent. Don is also on the same flight but he’s in cattle class, of course. (Pedant alert – Rob, I’m well aware that a donkey is not considered part of the ‘cattle’ family but read the bit at the top about poetic licence!)

Meister forms the advance party with an early flight on Cathay Pacific. I think he saw that story about two air crew being caught in flagrante delicto in the cockpit of a Cathay plane and thought he might get a floorshow to go with the in-flight movies.

Kiwi?, you may well ask. I think he might have already left, he was last seen clutching a google map muttering “Winnerish Triangle and turn left”. The rumour is that he’s on a Qantas flight with a two night stopover in Glasgow and three in Minsk. Rather worryingly the Qantas website is reporting a rail replacement service due to cloudworks over the Caspian Sea. So it looks like a connecting flight to Omsk and picking up that famous oxymoron of travel the Trans Siberian Express. We’ll see you there mate.