We arrive at the Nice airport in good time for our 8pm flight to Lisbon. We actually boarded on time or we thought but we stood by the plane door for 30 minutes before being told to disembark as they are short on crew. What?! They didn't count if there is enough crew before checking all of our passes?. So we walked back out and had no idea if our flight is delayed or cancelled. After much questioning we are told delayed.
The bigger picture is actually worse. There is a two day air traffic controller strike starting tomorrow July 3 and 4 in Nice. All flights in and out are already cancelled. If we don't take off today, we are stuck here for 3 more days or more !!!
So we are quite thankful when we are told to board again about an hour later to the flight to Lisbon. We are on the plane now but I guess until the plane takes off, we still don't know … I will wait to send this until we land in Lisbon to tell you rest of the story.
4 hours later … it's now midnight in Lisbon. We made it. That's 1am in Nice. We might have been one of the last planes to leave Nice before the traffic controller started. They actually flew us with 1 crew short. We sat in the plane for another hour before finally taking off at 10:25pm Nice time.
We are safely in Lisbon waiting for our Uber. Bolt was actually too busy. We feel quite lucky to have made it tonight. If our flight was cancelled we would have been stuck in Nice for 3 more days and perhaps longer since so many people would be. We feel lucky
