It's 5am, I'm at Edinburgh Airport and for the first time in 19 months, I'm going to
get on an aeroplane and fly down to London, I'm excited but also a little bit nervous
at the same time, fancy joining me, welcome to RogVLOG
it's raining quite heavily this morning, but I'm here at the terminal, so let's go and
get checked in and I'll see you after security,
security took less than five minutes, so I gave them a green smiley face,
now you know what's next don't you,
this is the bit that I haven't missed, the walk of shame through the shops,
Edinburgh Airport is definitely nowhere near as busy as it used to be before the pandemic,
I was expecting it to be quiet, but I would almost say it was deserted, some of the outlets
are completely closed, fortunately, though Caffe Nero was open,
I've seen some people on some vlogs who just can't function in the morning without coffee,
you know you sort of see them like this, well I don't need a coffee to function, I just
need a coffee because I like it
I'm not sure that British Airways are going to feed me this morning, so I'm going to have
a precautionary bacon roll before the flight,
well the flight is boarding, and I need to explain something to you before we get on,
I've deliberately chosen a seat right at the very back, now why on earth would I do that,
well there are two reasons and I'll explain when we get on the plane,
today's metal was an Embraer 190, now BA used these planes almost exclusively on the London
City route, and in my opinion, they are amongst the best short-haul airliners there are,
the seats are configured two by two and upholstered in dark grey, there's a massive 34 inches
of legroom, and a fairly sizable fold down table for your laptop or, of course, your
food and drink, in the overhead panel the usual air vents,
reading light, and call bell for attracting attention, the flight was only half full so
plenty of space,
we left the gate bang on time, but there wasn't much to see out of the window because of all
that rain, and at the runway almost pitch darkness, all I could hear was the revving
of the engines,
there was nothing to see until we levelled out and then I could see the roads and the
traffic far below,
I absolutely love these British Airways Embraer 190s, they are probably my favourite short-haul
aircraft why well two reasons, first of all, it's only two x two across, even an economy
and the legroom is absolutely amazing, there's so much legroom, now I said earlier that I
deliberately chose a seat right at the very back, 25D, in fact, why would earth would
I choose to see right at the very back of the plane, well again two reasons, first of
all in London City, which is where I'm going, they always disembark from the back of the
plane, so that means if I sit right at the back, I can get off first obviously, and secondly
not many people bother to select the seat right at the very back so that increases your
chance of getting nobody sat next to you, and as you can,
see, nobody in the seat next to me, result
It;'s a bit turbulent, well it proved to be prudent to have that bacon roll at Edinburgh
Airport, but they are serving a light snack today, a neutral grain bar and a cup of orange
juice, plus of course an all-important second cup of coffee, cheers - here's to going back
into the air, here's our route from Edinburgh to London including the final great big sweep
out over the English Channel just before landing, finally the clouds cleared enough for us to
see landmarks below,
soon after the Captain put on the fasten seatbelt signs and we started our final approach along
the Thames Estuary, stunning views
ladies and gentlemen welcome to London city the time has just gone 7:25 in the morning,
as expected back doors open, and I'm one of the first to disembark,
well here we are at London City and that was a pretty flawless journey, in fact, we arrived
at the gate 25 minutes early, but of course, we do know that they pad the schedules don't
they, oh I really enjoyed getting back on an aeroplane after 19 months, it was a little
bit bumpy, but it was great to get back up into the air, I can't wait to do it again,
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