Wake up, list and check in for the emirates flight. Whoa! Once we are listed we can see the loads!! The flight to DXB has 50 seats open, and it's on an a380 (the full length double decker plane). 6 Hours to DXB. Head to the airport, where we check in (as economy, emirates will upgrade paying passengers to get nonrevs ono but never upgrade standbys). And he clears us! We have seats so we are atleast getting out of london and heading to a new country Dubai! Of course both our bags get pulled to have them look at our liquids (which i have jam packed bc we have a lot of sunscreen and bug spray in little bottles) But alas, we are in and I decide to grab chocolates from duty free for the flight crew. An a380 can have as many as 26 FA and i know i dont have that many FA treat boxes with me. We then each grab a quick bite from the coffee shops and wait for the gate to be announced. Gate announced, we head there, and clear the gate and wait. There is some delay due to the aircraft arriving late. But it gives me time to list us for DXB to CPT which leaves 3 hours after we land in Dubai. (At 355AM). We finally get to board, and carry on all of our suitcases. We have the window and middle in a row right infront of the bathrooms and someone on our aisle. BUT! The a380 is surprisingly spacious in coach (the lower level). The lead fa notices we are crew and offers us anything we want (within reason— i did ask if we could see upstairs and were politely told no, but whatever it was worth the ask). 6 hours to DXB and we land, at midnight Dubai time (but6p London time and 11a CST). We easily get through the transfer line which includes security (but leave everything in your bags). Then we look to find the capetown flight. (That was the first flight to leave at 355a, JBurg had a 455a departure and a 955a departure, so may as well try the first). We pass a McDonalds (have to try the local specials!) and check in with the gate agent— as we didn't have boarding passes and had just checked in online. He says the flight is full but check back later (i see there are 4 seats open and 4 standbys listed). I pick up matt a McArabia chicken sandwich and i have their beef and mushroom burger. They were okay. Boarding starts, and we still arent cleared. Check back 20 minutes before departure. Okay. So we wait and wait and wait. But then we check in and we have seats! And they re together!! This aircraft was a 777 and a 2 seat, 4 seat 2 seat configuration. We have an aisle and a middle in the 4 seat section. We board and ooooofda, this planes interior is old, and outdated. We squeeze into our seats and try to get comfortable for the 10 hour flight to capetown. We get amenity kits (very basic with eye mask and tooth brush). I am exhausted as is matt, so we try our best to sleep. It's a long flight, we get both dinner and breakfast. But it was a means to the end. I had our server one of my FA boxes (there's so many FAs and we didn't get much for handing out chocolates on the other emirates flights so may as well save the other boxes i have for other flights. After a long long fight crammed into our seats we finally arrive in Capetown SouthAfrica! 2 days later than we had anticipated but! We are in South AFrica!
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