The last section of our final family move - the flight from Taipei to Frankfurt (via HK and London).
My biggest concern was how my son would react to his first flight (especially such a long flight - altogether 18 hours). But - he had a blast. No matter if in the airport or on the plane - he was running around, talking to people, playing and trying out things (fortunately the plane doors are secured).
Another thing I would like to mention is the help we got from several people during the whole flight.
There was for example the lady at the Cathay Pacific counter in the Taoyuan Airport who helped us with re packing our luggage to avoid too high a fine for excess luggage weight.
Or the guy at the passport control in the London Airport - we didn't have our boarding passes for the flight London - Frankfurt, and we were supposed to go to BA's service counter to get them. The thing was that we got off the plane (from HongKong) just in front of the passport control for fransferring passengers. And to get to the service counter and back would have taken another long walk and probably 30 minutes. But then the guy at the passport control (who i had asked for directions) told me that he were able to produce the boarding passes - and he did. So we could just continue directly through the passport control.
One exciting incident - our plane was most likely hit by lightening. Fortunately nothing happened so it is easy to think it was exciting. Probably not many people even noticed, but i was sitting right next to two of the flight attendants. And right after it looked like we were hit, I noticed how one of them got really nervous and started looking out of the window. The other stayed pretty calm but also kept looking out of the window, and he later confirmed that we were most likely hit by lightening.
Oh, and I fell asleep while eating, actually while chewing.
Other than that the flight was pretty normal and after 18 hours we arrived at the Frankfurt aiport where my brother was already waiting to help us for the last section of the trip from Frankfurt to Stuttgart.
Here my son enjoying the flight:
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