New York; Tuesday, 18 April, 2017

I actually managed to get a couple of hours of reasonable sleep on the flight before the pilot woke everyone up somewhere over Liverpool to let us know that we had started our descent and would be on the ground in around 40 minutes’ time.

That left just enough time for the cabin crew to chuck a small breakfast bag at everyone before the seatbelt signs went on and we made our final approach.

The flight arrived around 20 minutes early, so slightly bleary eyed, I was out of the terminal shortly before 7am and on my way back across London to home and my desk to start work at 9.