Getting to St. Vincent
December 2nd, 2007
Filed under Travel
Transportation to the Cheddi Jagan International Airport of Guyana arrived around 4:30 AM. En route we picked up her coworkers who were part of the team to go on this journey.
Check in went without problems. We were sitting in the waiting area within no time. My friend Nick, who was going to Antigua via Barbados with Caribbean Airlines was still waiting for his flight. He left a little earlier than we did.
Departure from Guyana
Our flight to Barbados, in one of Liat’s Dash 8’s left a couple of minutes later than was planned. I personally prefer flying in this smaller propeller plane for these distances rather than with larger aircraft. I like the bumpy rides: you really feel that something is happening.
En route to Barbados
There was some bad weather in Guyana when we left. Because of this weather, the pilot had to fly slightly to the right of the plotted course and 4000 feet higher, to avoid flying in dangerous clouds. So the first 15 to 25 minutes into the flight left nothing much to see outside. It was all white (and some light shades of gray). Clouds on the left, clouds on the right, clouds everywhere.
When this bad weather was behind us, there was still not very much to see: a nice morning sky with a lot of blue water below. So now and then you could see a ship. Still, the 110 minutes went by fairly quickly. Before you knew it, we were approaching Barbados. We landed right on time, that is, the scheduled time. The flight was 10 minutes shorter than was scheduled.
In contrast to what I’ve been hearing about Liat, I enjoyed the flight. For this leg of the trip I give them 8 points.
