A lot of planning had gone into today and getting it right. I was up and out at 9AM to the airport, the bags arrived at 11:20 just as planned, with 5 check in desks and 8 staff t6o move the bags the check in was complete in 30 minutes, I took the two flight cases to cargo and we got them back to the aircraft by 12:30 with all the bags loaded the passenger started to arrive, just like Johannesburg they were early but this time it was well organised and we got everyone onto the aircraft in time to leave 20 minutes early. The arrival at Port Elizabeth was absolutely perfect, as soon as we shut the engines down the Mercedes S class pulled up at the stairs and the “A” party were away in less than 3 minutes, we then pulled up the band coach and got them away within 10 minutes. The other two coaches were pulled up at the baggage side of the aircraft and everyone jumped on whilst the baggage was loaded and what remained was thrown on the baggage truck. We got 87 people and 150 bags away from the airport within 20 minutes and none of it went anywhere near the terminal fantastic. Once that was done we spent an hour sorting out the procedure for the departure. One f the nice things about this tour is educating the airport staff about what a group like this requires, you could see they were getting a real buzz out of it and hopefully it will mean that the tours that come after us will not start with the concept and can cut straight to the process. With that done I now have two days off. The journey to the Hotel was a quick 10 minutes which will present a problem on Saturday (but more on that later). The Hotel is the Radisson Blu which is two years old and very nice I have a 10th floor room overlooking the beach and Nelson Mandela bay. A perfect day with the (very detailed) move day plan came together.
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