Non Smoking Flight

Finally we are boarding flight AK808 to Phuket, but as we had not paid for seat allocation, we were not sitting together. The seats next to me were empty and I thought I'd be able to stretch to during the journey and looked smugly around the plane at my fellow cramped passengers... but then this family get on with a very small grisly monster child – damn. Still it was only an hour or so, and I had my iPod.

Time to fly!

Or so I thought – there was a problem with the plane: like the majority of vehicles in Malaysia,  the taillight was broken so we had to wait on the runway until the engineers came to fix it. The hostess made a very lengthy technical announcement about waiting for the engines to cool before the engineers could get near the light to repair, and I imagined we'd be here till the morning. 

Anyway, she was quite humorous,  telling us during the safety announcement that it was a non-smoking flight (unless you went outside!) and simulating taking deep breaths when explaining how to use the oxygen masks!

Finally we were off and on our way to a weekend on the beach!