Budapest; Saturday, 03 August, 2013

Breakfast done and dusted and with my bags all packed I checked out of the hotel and headed out to the airport.

Originally I had booked a direct flight from Budapest to Berlin, but back in February this had been cancelled by Lufthansa and instead they had routed me via Munich.

This appeared to have caused some considerable problems with my booking in their systems as I couldn’t check-in on-line or at the kiosks in the terminal building. Eventually after much keyboard tapping, frowning and lots of apologies, the lady at the Lufthansa ticket desk finally managed to get my booking sorted and I was able to checkin through to Berlin.

However, my worries didn’t end there as the flight promptly gained at 25 minute delay, which when there was only ever an hour to make the connection at Munich, and I’d already seen from the Lufthansa app that the flight from Budapest would be connected to the terminal by bus rather than air-bridge did make me start to wonder if I’d actually make the connection.

Thankfully, it became increasingly obvious in the gate lounge that there were a large number of people who were all in exactly the same situation as me, to the extent that it was becoming clear that it would be far cheaper for Lufthansa to delay the Berlin flight at Munich, rather than deal with the sheer number of displaced passengers should we not make the connection.

Holding onto that thought, 10 minutes after we should have departed we started boarding…