13:30
Boarding on the Austrian Airline craft to Vienna. The plane behind seemed an amy freight.
It's really a small airport.
Everything went on well and I got to Vienna and I could finally get back my lost luggage. However, it's found that the flight to Heathrow would be delayed for half an hour.
20:00
After boarding the plane, I took a nap. When I woke up, the plane was still on the ground. That meant the flight would delay for at least an hour.
Before landing at Heathrow, a crew approached me to urge me and other guests to rush to the connected flight for Hong Kong. So I picked up all my stuff after taxi to the gate. I stood in front of the plane door to wait for it opened and dashed out immediately. A staff at the gate registered my name without telling where to go. I tried to go for the boarding gate myself but was called back.
22:30
When all the guests to HK had been collected, the staff led us the way to the boarding gate. Once again, we needed to pass through the passport control. After two of us (the last two came out from the flight) passed through, the system stopped operating. It was explained that the connected flight had extended the waiting time for 10 minutes and it's decided not to wait for us as longer. The boarding gate closed and the system should be stopped automatically.
Desperately, I could not think of anything to do or respond. The whole group, around 30 of us was led to the re-booking counter. I was the last one to be served. Just noticed that the operator passed me a pile of tickets, like hotel voucher, 2-way airport express / hotel linking bus. Just a while, she told her supervisor that the transferred flight, Australian Airline was full. I really scared, when will I be landed at HK ?! Fortunately, there was another flight CX back to HK at 12:00 tomorrow.
I was really frustrated and exhausted that I climbed on the bus and arrived at Renaissance Hotel (4-star). When I laid down on the bed, I could not really sleep. Many thoughts pop up, like - where is my luggage ? Could I get back to HK in time for work ? ....
Next day, I got up very early and had a fabulous buffet breakfast. After that I went to Terminal 5 again to check for my luggage. The BA staff told me that there's no need to collect my luggage, it would be collected when I arrived at HK. Well, let's wait and see.
Then, I travelled on the airport express (train) to Terminal 4 and checked in at CX counter. When I waited at the boarding gate, I just spotted that a A380 was boarding at the adjacent gate. This was the first one serving Singapore Airline.
As I whole, I have visited Heathrow Terminal 1, 2, 4 and 5 in this trip.
