Monday, February 06, 2006

Me: a flight closer to home (at least improve in time difference)

[london] heathrow terminal
1600 houston time: (GMT -8)
flight with lufthansa to london via frankfurt --- it was back track route, wasn't it. i was arrived 4hour earlier, rather than waiting in hotel for nothing. after checked in, i went to secondary officer (but no one knew this term, while it was commonly used in lax), they called it border & protection office. when i arrived there, an iranian holding british passport had been there. we talked each other but funny thing we were not introduced each other. he said that he worked in a british satelite company, which also supplied for bp in north sea. he had called to designated phone number to request officer to come to their office (quiet funny, isn't it - while several officers from others department were chatting). after a while, i called back to the number and about one and half hpur an officer arrived, gamez.

in lufthansa counter, i had to pay 25$ for overweight bag (lufthansa reduced the free weight starting this january) and it was a lot cheaper rather than i sent it through ups all of my training material with two huge binders --- it might cost me $212 to send to jakarta.

1040 frankfurt time: (GMT+1)
i saw from abovw the germany land was covered with snow.

at exact time of the schedule, the plane arrived at frankfurt airport. the funny thing, we had to go and use bus to go to airport and back to the plane, there was no bridge gate connecting plane to airport. i rushed in to boarding in and just waiting there.

1140 london time: (GMT +0)
there was no snow!!! thank's god.

custom and immigration was easy, was that because of i'm bp employee, i just wondered but i wasn't quite sure. i checked in to bmi for flight to aberdeen this afternoon. i will stay couple days in there at marriot hotel for sharing session on common process implementation in bp aberdeen.

Posted while I'm on the flight SQ 321 on the way back from London to Jakarta via Singapore with Connexion by Boeing

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