only a pilot can make up time

This morning I had the pleasure of finalising my latest travel itinerary, I had the pleasure of sitting down with the travel agent to agree what was possible and how we could best to move, all that appeared to be impossible into the realms of plausible, possible and leisurely.

I have learnt to study my travel itinerary very carefully because when you are moving around airports, time does some strange things, it accelerates when you need to get through checkpoints but will then promptly decelerate as soon as you have made it through security, queries and queues almost coming to a grinding holt as you wait for take-off.

Two hours between connecting flights is a squeeze, just the slightest delay and you are on edge, which is not a state that you want to in, in any UK or US airport given recent events. The last time I had to explain to the travel agent that two hours was not nearly enough time to get from LHR to Gatwick, this time it was pretty much the same thing.

You would have thought that your travel agent would recognise that airport time is not normal time, and that two hours between flights may look like a lot on a printout but that it is surely better to factor in a little "gawd damn" reality.

Only a pilot can make up time the rest of us mere mortals we don't have that ability, so if we miss a connecting flight we have to enter that world of waitlisted chaos. No fun.

But it's all sorted, I shall be blogging out of Edinburgh in the week of the 09-14 October, the annual team meeting - another "educational experience" where I once again get to "add value."