Nightmare come true
Imagine that you've been on the road for business for two weeks. Through the fog of jetlag, you've attended meetings from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. each day, followed by a big meal, and some drinks. You've fallen asleep each night around three (joys of west-to-east jetlag) and poured yourself out of bed around 7 each morning.
Finally, you're three hours into the flight home and you realize you are halfway there. The euphoria is so relaxing, you give up on the armrest battle with your neighbor and dream about all of the horizontal planes in your home: bed, couch, table, floor, yard, bathtub...until the water in the tub starts spilling because the tub is suddenly at a 45 degree angle.
The water gushes out of the tub and you're hanging on for dear life when you wake up short of breath as the plane takes a deep banking turn and the pilot announces, "We are returning to Heathrow airport..." then drones on with an explanation that no one hears because everyone is freaking out, pissed off, and confused. After the amount of time it should have taken you to get home (3 hours there + 3 hours back), you get to do it all over again! Hopefully, this time for real.
That's exactly what these folks were lucky enough to do today:
Finally, you're three hours into the flight home and you realize you are halfway there. The euphoria is so relaxing, you give up on the armrest battle with your neighbor and dream about all of the horizontal planes in your home: bed, couch, table, floor, yard, bathtub...until the water in the tub starts spilling because the tub is suddenly at a 45 degree angle.
The water gushes out of the tub and you're hanging on for dear life when you wake up short of breath as the plane takes a deep banking turn and the pilot announces, "We are returning to Heathrow airport..." then drones on with an explanation that no one hears because everyone is freaking out, pissed off, and confused. After the amount of time it should have taken you to get home (3 hours there + 3 hours back), you get to do it all over again! Hopefully, this time for real.
That's exactly what these folks were lucky enough to do today:
A British Airways jumbo jet flying to New York turned back after the US objected to one of its passengers.US sends BA jet back to Britain
Three hours after take-off on Wednesday the Boeing 747, with 239 passengers, turned around after a US request that the man should not be allowed to land.
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