Rønne; Friday, 22 August, 2025
It was a smooth journey through the airport and eventually down to the gate where a relatively quick boarding belied the fact that it was just everyone stood in a very long jet bridge. I was the last person to pass through the gate and only got to the bottom of the escalators where I met the back of the queue, though I did have a pleasant 10 minute chat with the ramp manager who was equally surprised that boarding hadn’t progressed as well as she’d hoped.
In the end we finally all got on board and the plane pushed back 10 minutes late, but I wasn’t too worried, given I had a pretty short walk from the airport to my hotel in Copenhagen.
We didn’t make up any time on the flight and arrived at the same time as flights from Edinburgh and Manchester, which meant there was a bit of a rush to get to the three manned passport booths before the queues got too long. Thankfully being towards the front of the plane, and BA’s gate being right by the immigration area meant that I only had about a two minute wait before I was through, looking back some of the people at the back of the plane were probably looking at a good half hour if not longer with the mass of people from three flights all arriving at the booths together.
Exiting the terminal I could have taken the escalator up to the overbridge and then the covered walkway into my hotel for the evening, but given it was still quite warm out it was nicer to step out of the terminal and walk the hundred or so metres in the fresh air over to my hotel where I was able to quickly check in and get to bed.
From the wheels of the plane hitting the tarmac to my head hitting the pillow was less than 25 minutes, and more importantly, completed before midnight – a long way from the horrific experience in July 2022 when a delay on the same flight, and then a delay on the baggage due to Covid inspired staff shortages meant I didn’t get to bed until gone 03:30!
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