Ok we’re lucky. we usually fly Aer Lingus.
And in all that time, we haven’t crashed, flown to the wrong airport or lost or broke anything.
I work out what i’m taking, tell the travel agent, she tells the airline. They come back with any extra questions. This we do in good time so there are no surprises or hiccups.
Pre order the car parking space in Dublin. Unload kit and find your desk. Before you know it, a person with passes well take you on a guided tour of bits you don’t usually see in an airport.
On the plane off the plane again theres a lot of queue jumping at passport control. and out the door.
Old hands at all this, we turn up in Budapest airport in good time. all the paperwork in order. sit there at sparrow fart.
Jump the queue and despite the fact that the machine Is covered in Aer Lingus tags. He wanted full details which we found in an email.
Answered all the questions, signed all the forms…….and he tells us he doesn’t think its allowed to fly.
‘How do you think it got here’
‘Go and sit over there’.
We do, he got and gets more people, we fold it up, we unfold it.
‘How do you disable it’
I show him the key. Its disabled, it needs a key.
‘What about removing the battery’.
‘Cant be done’
It needs disconnected.
‘It is’
The dame leans over, has a look and pulls out a lead, ‘its disconnected’
‘What did you do’
‘No idea, I”ll push you through Dublin airport if I have to’.
So away I went in an airport chair, on to the plane off the other side. in Dublin, we have our bags, do the passports, welcomed home.
And off to get the scooter. No scooter, Big search, sent home, No scooter. Lots of head scratching, Saturday morning and all I get is a text, Found it.
Someone drove it up from Dublin on Saturday night. dropped the thing off, with apologies.
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