My best was Stansted, nearly four hours waiting for luggage at the carousel. According to the airport staff that came around, "They couldn't open the aircraft hold door and had to bring aircraft maintenance staff in." Drove home at 3am. I just had thoughts of: Just as well it didn't open on its own during the flight!
Coming back from Sharm to Gatwick, already on the carousel was one guys bag, which must have been on the preceding flight that left before ours. I and pretty much everyone else waited around 3 hours because of 'technical' issues. When the next flight came in from Sharm our bags appeared.
Point of order. His father actually survived the Jap POW camps. His mother received a message that he was alive, and coming home, and the Yanks laid on aircraft to get the POWs home faster, and his plane hit a tropical storm and crashed. Heartbreaking.
I wouldn't have gone to University if I hadn't got a scholarship -- there were a few times I nearly had to leave high-school. Overseas travel was a luxury we couldn't afford (a flight to London was close to £1000, more expensive than a Volkswagen; my father was getting £40/week around then, working 7x12-hour shifts per week in the whaling factory, but then the whales started getting scarce...). -- Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration, Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005 WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon) KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".
I think James was the same. Good god man, nobody *flew*! That was unimaginable luxury. James, like most of his contempories (as I understand it) took the boat.
For US values of a test, yes. I was back in the test centre parking lot 8 minutes after we started. If I try to convert my US one, I'll have to take a test etc. I might be able to exploit a loophole that means I'll keep all three.
