I arrived at Arlanda Terminal 2 in good time, checked in on a
vending machine and saw that the plane to Paris, where I would change, was
delayed an hour.
I went to the check-in counter and asked (maybe a little bit naive) weather the
plane possibly would wait us, since the delay would give me only 15 minutes for changing plane in Paris.
Clearly they do not, but the lady said that if we miss the flight to
Tokyo Air France will pay for hotels, etc., in Paris, and then I take
the next plan tomorrow night = a whole day of delay.
Not exactly what I wanted, so I ran away to the service desk and asked if they could book me on another flight to Paris. But no, there was nothing.
I explained that I really have to be in Tokyo on Tuesday. After a
couple of minutes, the man at the service counter said that a
possible solution was that I should try to catch an Air China aircraft to Beijing that would take off in 50 minutes, and then take a flight from
there to Tokyo after a five-hour stop over in Beijing. I would then arrive in Tokyo 19:15 on Tuesday, just over an hour later than my original itinerary.
However, it was unclear whether the check-in was already closed, so he
advised me to run from Terminal 2 to Terminal 5 as fast as I could while
he called and gave them a heads up that I was on my way.
I ran like a madman and arrived in a few minutes, had just enough time to check in the bag before they closed check-in.
The staff calls and announces that there will be one more bag.
Sweaty as hell after running FAST, but I managed to get on the flight!
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