Hello everybody, I've had a fantastic day in London my first time here in 19 months
and I'm about to fly back up to Edinburgh, I'm just about to head out on the Docklands Light
Railway to London City airport, so this is a trip report vlog, fancy joining me welcome to RogVLOG.
when I travelled down from Edinburgh to London this morning I was really surprised how quiet
Edinburgh airport was, in fact, it was almost deserted so let's see if London City is the same,
through security in two minutes, I think it's going to be quiet,
I've been in this airport when it's been absolutely mobbed, I mean really armpit to armpit,
but look at it today, hardly any people business travel certainly hasn't gone back to normal,
oh for goodness sake, you used to be able to sit here and look out onto the apron, watch the planes
landing and taking off, now they've built this great big metal building you can't see anything,
oh, that's rubbish, really rubbish, what is good however is that what used to be a narrow
corridor towards the gates has now been expanded to more retail space and plenty of places to sit,
and picture windows so that we can watch the planes landing and taking off after all,
I've chosen 25D right at the very back again, I was really lucky this
morning nobody sat beside me let's see whether I'm lucky a second time,
and there's the metal for the journey back home an Embraer 190,
Does
anyone else perform this little ritual when getting on a plane tap tap
ah I'm out of luck someone's in the seat next to me?
British Airways give you a generous 34 inches of seat pitch, there's
plenty of room to spread out, and everyone gets hand sanitiser and an antibacterial towel,
we left the gate bang on time and started taxiing towards the runway,
flight time a little over an hour
something else they've built since my last visit,
a parallel taxiway this certainly speeds up traffic at London City,
it's a short runway at London City so on takeoff the pilots keep the brakes on
whilst they throttle the engines up to full power, and then they let go of the brakes and
you go flying down the runway, and you get pushed right back into your seat,
there you go,
good news we noticed after doors closed that 25 A and B were free, so the guy next to me moved
over the aisle which gave me acres of space yet again, you see my trick pretty much always works,
I had to drive home from Edinburgh airport so I declined an alcoholic drink,
stuck to fizzy water and a packet of crisps,
here's today's routing, almost a straight line from London City up to Edinburgh,
ladies and gentlemen the captain has now switched
on the fastened seat outside as we will shortly be landing,
oh look I can see my house from here final approach takes us way out over the Firth of Forth
with some fantastic views as we head into land
no disembarking from the back in Edinburgh, of course, which means I was last off the plane,
but I'm absolutely not in a hurry so it's not a problem,
welcome to an even more deserted Edinburgh airport,
well, I'm back here in Edinburgh with the iconic Edinburgh airport control tower right
there behind me, it's been a great day in London all the way down and all the way back
in one day, and you know what, I've forgotten how hard it is to do the red-eye journey down
and the early evening flight back, I'm really tired and I'm ready for a glass of red wine,
which should be waiting for me when I get home, thank you so much for watching RogVLOG,
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