Montreal We were sitting cheek to jowl in the back section of a Lufthansa flight from Nairobi to Frankfurt. I was transferring from a Kenya Airlines flight from Kampala to Nairobi and then going forward in hops to Frankfurt, Chicago, and finally New Orleans. The attendants and a percentage of the passengers were German of …
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First Impressions in Uganda
Kampala Flying into Entebbe, a glance out the window to the left, as the plane looks for the runway, is suddenly breathtaking, as the vast savannahs of Africa meet the blue waters of Lake Victoria. For all of the drama of Entebbe in our memory and imagination from the days of plane hijacks and Idi Amin, walking …
Weather Beats Logistics Every Time
Chicago It’s always a challenge to fly after a holiday, particularly Thanksgiving Sunday, often the busiest travel day of the year. Families, business people, you name it are all trying to get back from the holidays, fat and happy, and then they have to fly through Chicago’s O’Hare airport, long one of the most trafficked …