Today’s day of flying gave me some gorgeous views. Â We first hopped over to Ireland, which was a flight that took no more than 30 minutes. Â Everything happened really quickly and only a few minutes after take off, we were already at cruising altitude, travelling at over 400mph over the Irish Sea inbound to Ireland. Â The weather was cold, dull and it was raining, which gave us some indication of what we were to expect later on in the day back in UK!
The next trip was to Spain again, and this time it was a much longer flight of just over 2 hours, which gave me a little bit of time in cruise to catch my thoughts.  England was still in a state of generally good weather, with clear skies, though the temperature had dropped a little over the past few days, being only around 8ºC in the morning.  Our routing took us past Birmingham, west of London and then past the Isle of White. Halfway over France we were once again over cloud, obscuring the view of the ground below.
We soon approached the Pyrenees and today the cloud cover had diminished, affording us a superb view. Â As usual, as soon as we had flown over the Pyrenees, the sky was clear and I could see a sharp ridge rise ahead in the distance, which we fly over on our descent towards Barcelona.
The turnaround in Barcelona took a little longer than expected due to an issue we had to deal with.  After managing to to calm down a passenger that had a fear of flying (which wasn’t the issue that actually caused a delay) and once we had a new flight plan, we were on our way!  On the way back to UK we got fantastic views of the northern coast of Spain, as we headed over the Bay of Biscay towards the Brest Peninsula, France.  On landing back in UK I said goodbye to the many appreciative passengers that disembarked and were quite happy with us getting them back to UK with minimal disruption despite the initial delay.  It always feels great to have your efforts appreciated with some genuine polite expressions of gratitude rather than the quick courtesy “thanks” one gives as you’re trying to get off as soon as you can!
