Friday, October 21, 2011

Nairobi-Lilongwe


I just returned from a conference in Nairobi and the quickest way back is on Kenya Airlines, whose hub is Nairobi and who flies all over Africa!  Seems pretty simple enough…  One plane, no connection, just an easy flight, right?  Well, not quite!  Since, depending of the day you fly,  the flight Nairobi-Lilongwe has two routes: either it’s a direct OR it has a stop in Lusaka, Zambia.  So, a flight that takes two hours and a half end up may take almost four and a half hours with the stop over in Lusaka.  It gives you time to catch up on your reading or take a nap… 
The 45 minutes stop in Lusaka is quite interesting!   As soon as some of the passengers disembark in Lusaka, the cleaning crew walks in and goes about cleaning the cabin, around the passengers, under their feet, vacuuming, dusting and picking up the trash.  You got to see it to believe if-and they are quick and pretty effective!

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