Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2011 11:07:53 GMT 1
Well Father time finally caught up with me- finally hit the big 60 so I had a think waht I wanted to do to celebrate. Get an earring -Nah!!! get a Tattoo Nah!!!. I know I will go to Vegas for a week having not been since 2008.
Early start taxi picked me and the wife up at 06:45 and tranferred us to terminal 1 in order to get our TCX124 flight to Vegas.
Booked in for our Premium class seats, then got through security very quickly. After a quick visit to duty free for my aftershave and the wifes perfume, it was straight to the bar for a couple of early morning pints and a sausage and egg roll.
Great viewing airside- seat in the bar overlooking the taxi ways- Following logged:-
EI-SLL- ATR
M-NHOI- CL605 ;D
CS-DFU- C560
HA-YFJ- Beech 400 ;D
G-EDCM- C525 ;D
D-ACNB- CRJ900 ;D
D-ACPC- CRJ700 ;D
EI-EBZ- 737
LN-RRR- 737
A7-AEI- A330
OH-LKM- Emb190 ;D
HB-IJP - A320 ;D
D-AILL- A319
TC-JGG- 737
N190AA- 757
N757PL- Gulf 500
Not a bad start to my holiday 7 in the book. Then we got on our aircraft for our 10 hour 50 minute flight to Las Vegas this being A330-243 G-TCXA.
Nice flight with no turbulence, which I like as the wife is not a good flyer. Lots of free drinks and half decent food, during the flight.
Only down side was the landing, for the last 10 minutes it was like a roller coaster due to high winds. Eventually landed to a big cheer from everyone on the aircraft.
Nothing much to report whilst taxying only aircraft logged were N388LS- L1011
C-FTJP- A320 -Air Canada ;D
N639AX- 757 - Omni ;D
Immigration was very quick as we were first off the aircraft- got through in a couple of minutes. No more green waiver cards to fill out, only the customs cards.
Then picked up our luggage and jumped into a taxi to be taken to our hotel for the week, the Mirage.
After checking in, got to room emptied cases, then headed for the slots.
To be continued...........
Happy Holidays
Bob
