Buenos Aires to Porto Alegre
It was a slightly hairy start this morning. Heavy rain and slow traffic delayed my arrival at Aeroparque but I made it in time.
Waiting in the departure lounge my Pluna flight had still not been called with 10 minutes to go. The board merely said "contact agent". At Pluna's checkin desk I was told I should have checked in an hour previously despite having checked in on-line and having only hand baggage. Hmm.
There followed a mad dash upstairs through security and immigration and on to the tarmac shuttle where we waited for about 15 minutes. Once on board there was a further delay of about 25 minutes before takeoff.
Arriving at Montevideo we were advised that passengers for Porto Alegre could remain on board as our aircraft would be doing Montevideo/Porto Alegre. Nice.
Pluna's Bombardier jets are very quiet and a pleasure to travel on. Arriving on time at Porto Alegre I quickly passed though immigration and customs.
On the approach I noticed a station quite close to the airport. There is a free shuttle bus to this station and the train fare into Porto Alegre is less the R$3.
Back on board all was well with the batteries in a good state of charge.
Waiting in the departure lounge my Pluna flight had still not been called with 10 minutes to go. The board merely said "contact agent". At Pluna's checkin desk I was told I should have checked in an hour previously despite having checked in on-line and having only hand baggage. Hmm.
There followed a mad dash upstairs through security and immigration and on to the tarmac shuttle where we waited for about 15 minutes. Once on board there was a further delay of about 25 minutes before takeoff.
Arriving at Montevideo we were advised that passengers for Porto Alegre could remain on board as our aircraft would be doing Montevideo/Porto Alegre. Nice.
Pluna's Bombardier jets are very quiet and a pleasure to travel on. Arriving on time at Porto Alegre I quickly passed though immigration and customs.
On the approach I noticed a station quite close to the airport. There is a free shuttle bus to this station and the train fare into Porto Alegre is less the R$3.
Back on board all was well with the batteries in a good state of charge.