On your final day, you will transfer by motor coach to the airport for your return flight.
Heading Home!
Up about 6:00 am, we finished packing up the room. We had a buffet breakfast at the hotel.
We were scheduled to be picked up at 9:00 am and transferred to the airport. Something went wrong. Our transfer never showed up. We ended up consolidating in a van meant for a 9:30 am pick-up with another Viking couple.
When we got to the airport, the check-in was a mess. It looks like there are only two British Airways flights from Stockholm to London each day. The check-in and gate appears to be handled by Finnair. Although we were there early, it took over an hour to check-in. For much of this time, there was only one person checking people in!
The flight from Stockholm to London was uneventful.
When we landed at Heathrow, they had us unload into a bus and drove us to the terminal. After a long walk, we had to go through passport control and another security checkpoint. We took a train out to the C gates of Terminal 5. Heathrow was packed with people.
After we got loaded, there was some drama with a passenger. The police came and took someone off. The flight ended up sitting on the ground for almost an hour. Eventually, the passenger came back.
We had premium econony seats for the leg to Seattle. I read my book and maybe slept for an hour. The flight went fairly quickly.
On the ground in Seattle, after another long walk, we got a chance to use our Global Entry! In what seems to me to be a change in procedure, we claimed our luggage before we did passport control. I know that the last two trips that we claimed our luggage after passport control.
We had a long layover. We both got a hamburgers for dinner at the African Lounge.
Like Heathrow, Seattle was packed with people.
The flight to Sacramento was supposed to take off at 10 pm. It was late coming from Salt Lake City. We boarded about 9:55 pm and took off about 10:15 pm. The flight landed in Sacramento at 11:55 pm.
We finished the day sitting in the airplane on the ground in Sacramento waiting for a gate...
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