Kotor; Friday, 05 May, 2023

My flight was one of the last to leave London City Airport for the day, so it meant that I was able to finish work as normal and have a relaxed journey across London to reach the airport, and even with that I still arrived with way more time than I needed to make the flight.

I wandered down the corridor to the lower numbered gates at City as whilst the gates are displayed for flights until about 30 minutes before departure the actual gates show which flights will be leaving from them next, and from this I was able to spot that my flight would be the next one out from gate 7 after the Milan flight that was currently sitting on the gate had left.

As boarding was completing for that flight it meant that most of the seats in the gate area were now free so I was able to grab a window seat with a power socket and settle down for the 50 or so minute wait for my flight to start boarding.

In the end we actually had to wait a little bit longer as the flight on the stand next to ours was late departing and therefore started its pushback just as we were supposed to board, meaning we had to be held in the terminal until it was clear of the gate area so we could safely walk to the plane.

Whilst the actual flight was pretty bumpy the journey itself was pretty smooth, with the flight landing on time into Luxembourg. I was right at the back of the plane, which meant I was one of the last to disembark, but also meant I was the last onto the bus to the terminal, and consequently the first off the bus when we reached immigration, which always helps these days to avoid the queue of other 3rd country residents having to queue up behind me to be stamped into the country.

As the flight was mostly made up of business people coming back from meetings there had only been 13 bags loaded at City – one of the advantages of the window seat back at the terminal was I could see the whole off-loading and re-loading of the plane when it came in, and so was able to visually confirm that my bag made it onto the flight – with so few bags to be retrieved they were already coming round on the carousel as soon as I cleared immigration and so was able to grab my bag and head out of the terminal.

Less than 30 minutes from the wheels of the plane first hitting Luxembourg soil I was already out of the airport and walking the 10 minutes or so to my hotel for the night.

After checking in I dropped off my bags in the room and had a quick drink in the bar before turning in for the night.