Farewell LAX

25 July – Wednesday

Farewell to Anaheim – the shuttle was even early! Check-in at LAX took over an hour. After having our bags weighed, and making a compulsory donation to American Airlines (we have learnt by now and only have one case overweight!) we had to take our cases to security screening. Because we had them locked, we were allowed to wait while they were x-rayed. That way, we could unlock them if necessary and not risk having our locks cut off. No problems. We haven’t had any problems with using American Airlines’ Admirals Club Lounges and just go to the departure lounge 30 minutes prior to the flight. Unfortunately, AA were having trouble with mechanical problems on a number of planes and kept delaying our flight by 30 minutes at a time – we eventually took off 2½ late.

I have had one worse flight (as far as fellow passengers are concerned) and that was from Bangkok to Melbourne. Again it was the same Mediterranean people causing the noise and being very annoying. It was a looong 5 hours!

We arrived in Honolulu to a beautiful, balmy evening – a very pleasant 25 degrees, and the taxi driver spoke English!