CO'26 0107 -Travel

Finally the long awaited travel day ;-)

At the airport in Zurich (LSZH, ZRH) I met Peter, Michael&Gudrun as well as Vincent for travelling together to BOG on an Edelweiss A350. The emmigration process here in ZRH has been rather tiresome as around noon many long haul flights are departing and queues at the border have been long and slow; furthermore the skymetro linking Terminal with Terminal E is undergoing a major repair/ upgrade, so all pax had to be transported to Terminal E by bus...

C-class on EDW A350

Inflight service has been really excellent - full marks to the EDW-crew: very attentive with good food. The only thing I didn't like on the flight (but that's not a fault of the crew): the cabin layout is still the same as it has been by LATAM (from where the aircraft has com). This means that if you ar sitting at a window, you always have to climb over the pax sittng/ sleeping next to you (but they said, that the layout  will be changed. That's also th reason that for the return flight I didn't choose EDW, but LH from BOG.FRA; they have a different, mor convenient layout - especialy for a night flight. 

departing rwy 16 in LSZH (the long rwy across the pix) with a tight left turn above the airport

Bernese Oberland: Finsteraarhorn, Eiger, Mönch, Jungfrau

leaving Europe slightly north of Porto (PT)

Sunset in the Caribeean

ZRH-BOG -actual route flown (11hrs 6mins)

BOG-CLO

Already in the morning a schedule change had been announced, new departure time now 1445 (iso 1335)... After a smooth flight we landed in BOG at 2015- boarding time of our flight to CLO was at 2020, so no way we would make it even though CO-immigration has been really speedy despite the many travellers waiting to be cleared. Only Igor, who had travelled via Madrid (MAD) made the Avianca planned flight. Kari, arriving fom MEX landed around 1900 and has been taken to the hotel by Edinson and our driver (Estephan), so she wouldn't have to wait for our arrival at 2355. Finally ready to sleep by 0200 (= 0800 home time)...