Wednesday, 3 February, 2016 – Clearwater to Halifax, Charlottetown
Off to the airport – Tampa airport is perhaps the most comfortable that we have seen anywhere. There are comfortable arm chairs, 110v and USB plugs everywhere as well as bar tables and chairs with outlets for comfortable typing on your computer. From Tampa to Toronto and then home.
Anyway, we were to arrive in Charlottetown at 0006h in the morning (after midnight) when the pilot came on the PA and said that we would be landing in Halifax in 20 minutes. The 20 minutes was right, but the airport wrong - kind of disturbing when the pilot doesn't know where he is going! Everybody was looking at each other puzzled. A couple minutes later, he came on the PA and said that he forgot to tell us that Charlottetown was having snow and freezing rain and it was too dangerous to land and the runways were not clear. We ended up refueling in Halifax and sat on the runway until 0210h and the weather had moved off the Island and they salted the runways. We got in at 0230h and home at 0300h! The good news being we grabbed one of the 3 taxis that they send out to the airport for 100 or so people!
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