Day 13, Aug 22 (Wednesday)

We will return.  We left our hearts at the Heart of Midlothian

Day 13, Aug 22 (Wednesday)

Easy drive to Glasgow airport and returned the car.  That was the best part of the day, unless we count getting home and seeing the cat and our house again.

Icelandair slid a long ways.  They used to be sort of like the Southwest of the trans-Atlantic but now they are more like Ryan Air or Spirit.  We got surprise 150 GBP baggage fees – apparently they are only included in the outbound part of the trip, not the return.  Getting on the place in GLA wasn’t too bad; at least they had local gate agents.  Once we got to KEF that’s a different story.  They had something like 6 flights leaving from 6 “gates” (really just a door in a hallway) all within 5 minutes (no exaggerating here) of each other.  Naturally nothing left anywhere near its scheduled departure.  KEF is, at optimal use, probably about 200% over capacity during the busy season.  However Icelandair has no idea how to schedule or manage crowds, so it’s more like about 500% over capacity given their skill level.  We will never ever fly this shit show of an airline again.

someone missed us!