Buenos Aires T-0 - Wednesday
Wednesday, we left my homestead around 4pm and headed to midtown to park and catch MARTA down to the airport. Our flight wasn’t until 8:40pm, so really early doesn’t quite cover our timeliness.
We check our bags at the airport and decide dinner is a good idea. After a false start, we end up a the Budweiser Cafe. A few beers later and nachos (vacation!) and a hot dog for Jim and a chicken Caesar salad for me and we have $35 less in our pockets. It is still really early, so we wander from terminal A back to T and sign up with the gate agent – Jim is flying standby (there were 70 seats available, so it wasn’t a problem).
With so much time, we wander to the other end of the T-Gates and find a bar. $23 later and 1 drink each, we overhear that over 800 American Airlines flights were canceled today. Over 500 yesterday. We’re on Delta – non-issue.
The flight boards and leaves on time. To me, it appears that nobody is sitting in their correct seat – I know I’m not. This is an overnight flight – 9pm – 7am.
We arrive and go thru immigration fairly quickly. Very efficient. Then the baggage. According to the chief baggage guy, ours is on the plane. Mine is almost the last bag off the plan and Jim’s appears to be the very last 5-10 minutes later. Next is customs x-ray – no issue and we walk out of the uncontrolled area to meet some of Jim’s relatives from BA.
