Woke up extra early at 04:30 to get the 08:35 flight only to see emails from Cathay Pacific saying flight has been delayed. Not too bad, only a couple of hours.
Then saw another one saying my connection has been rebooked to the next day. That’s annoying – Song is in China and we were meeting at Seoul airport, staying overnight then flying the next day to Jeju Island – but I might miss that flight. Need to see if I can get a flight out from Hong Kong to Seoul tonight.
Very annoying.
Managed to get booked on the Korean air flight tonight by a very helpful Cathay check in person.
Through security quickly although it was busy, saw a couple of Chinese people getting all their fish oil and vitamin bottles removed from their hand luggage – not sure if it was confiscated or repacked for them.
Then queued up for a tax refund with about 50 other people. Luckily I still have plenty of time.
Got to the gate, getting on board was delayed and we eventually took off at 11:00.
Just got off the plane, major drama. I was already going to have to rush because of the 1 hour departure delay, but during the flight there was a medical emergency, the crew asked for a doctor.
When we landed we were told that a passenger had died. Medical staff and the police had to come on board before we were allowed off.
So I missed the flight, inconvenient but sad for the family who lost someone.
Currently sat in the airport waiting for them to rebook my flight.
They booked me on a flight at 00:30, gets in at 05:10, so I’m going to have to get across town to the hotel, check in at around 07:00 then check out again in the morning. Cathay have assigned a lady to us, a group of about 8 people. She whisked us through immigration, gave us some meal vouchers and took us to a lounge. We have to go out and come back in again because we’re not transit. The lounge is rubbish, very small, so I decided to leave and get something to eat. The others felt the same way and followed me out, but they went to another lounge that you have to pay for. I thought about it but thought I’d go for some food instead.
Can’t check in for 3 hours so have to wait in Arrivals.
