The meal was reasonable. However, it was unknown to all of us that the meal was supposed to keep us 'full' till evening... despite the fact that the flight should arrive at around 4 pm!Well, the plane went for another round (in the air) as it could not land at the airport (due to bad weather). That clocked for about 30 extra minutes in the air.
Indeed, over time, I was quite used to turbulence that the airplane would experience, so it was not scary. But what made up the new experience was the plane was flying in the cloud!!! It was not visible to us what's beyond the layer of cloud that it was travelling through... That was really scary (although we knew that there's technology to detect nearby objects around!). What added to the anxiety was really the lightning that we saw from the windows! Yes, yes, yes!!! The lightnings before our eyes, near the wings, etc.. OK, I must admit, I was quite scared then!
The flight safely landed at 4.30 pm. But it couldn't get a slot to park (that was what the pilot announced; which later Adrian said it was due to the lightning warning... sigh....). OK, nature won the game!
I guess the entire airport was quite chaotic - outgoing flights were either postponed or cancelled; incoming flights were either asked to stay in the air or got re-directed. Only knew that another flight from Pudong was re-directed to Macau instead. Wow! Count ourselves lucky! Really!
We stayed inside the flight for 2 hours, that's where I caught up with some reading (sigh... my first reading for the assignment only started in that morning and the deadline's next day 5 pm!).
Immigration clearance was pretty fast. However, the luggage collection area was very crowded. Several flights shared a belt; and the luggage did not came out in order of arrival! So, another 1-hour wait before the luggage re-appeared! Phew!
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