I had flown in to Paris from Edinburgh on AF5051 that had clearly been allocated the cheap landing space. The bus ride to the terminal (2E) took 15 minutes which gave me less than 20 minutes to get on my flight to Lagos which departed from terminal 2F.
There was a mass of people waiting for the bus and I wondered if I would manage to get on the first one. I did indeed manage, albeit just – I was last on and had the door against me. The bus took my fellow passengers and I to terminal 2C first. Nobody got on here and no one got off. Talk about wasting time when it’s such a commodity! Eventually the bus got to terminal 2F, although it took a lot longer than the three minutes that was displayed on the board back in 2E.
A security check welcomed me to the terminal, which luckily I breezed through and before I knew it I was at the departure gate – with a whole three minutes to spare before the departure time. I wasn’t quite last on the plane but I was pretty close!
My complimentary chauffeur car had picked me up on time and so I arrived at the airport with around 2 hours to spare. I caught up on some work in the unremarkable (but perfectly functional) Aviator Lounge.