Airport Travel

Despite the fact that this blog is for my stay in Japan, I am writing this first post in the Denver Airport, which was not initially part of my travel plans.

Apparently there was some sort of medical emergency up in first class. After asking if there was a doctor aboard a few times in both Japanese and English, the Captain announced that we were landing in Denver in 20 minutes. After about an hour on the ground, they informed us that our current flight crew could not complete the trip at this point because the extra couple of hours would put them over the legal maximum. We are now waiting for a new crew which will be able to fly to Tokyo and the new scheduled departure time is now 6:50 local time. We arrived something like noon local time, so this does add about 6-7 hours to a 13 hour flight.

It could have been worse, however, because at first they were threatening not to let us deplane before the new flight crew arrived. However, we didn't spend more than 2 hours total on the ground before they let us off. I suppose it wouldn't be fitting to travel by air without massive delays. That's all the news that's fit to print at the moment.