Sliema; Thursday, 25 May, 2017

I’d worked from home in the morning so it was a quick journey down to Gatwick and through to departures.

We made our way down to the gate when called, and then proceeded to sit there for the best part of an hour. The inbound plane had arrived on time, but there were a couple of passengers who required wheelchairs to get off of the plane, but the company that should have met the plane was short staffed and the passengers were still waiting to be collected.

Eventually, nearly an hour after we should have started boarding some company staff turned up and helped the passengers off the plane so we could start boarding.

After a very quick boarding the pilot got the plane off the stand and, with a bit of que jumping on the taxiway, we took off very shortly afterwards.

A smooth flight later we touched down in Malta just 30 minutes behind our scheduled arrival time, but still long after the last bus for the night had left so we had to head over to the taxi office and get a cab out to the hotel.

30 minutes later we were checked into the hotel, and after a quick night cap, turned in for the night.