Flight To Iceland

My parents and I drove to Boston’s Logan Airport. We parked the car and took a shuttle bus to the terminal. We met my sister’s plane (and it a little nerve wracking since she had to make a connection with only 40 minutes to spare) and had to wait several hours to check- in. When it came time to check- in we went to the IcelandAir desk (where there was no line) and had no issues although the woman thought she was doing us a favor by changing our seats to closer in the plane, but instead of all four of us sitting next to each other my sister was sat in the same row number as us but at the window and not the aisle. Once we got rid of our bags we had dinner at a restaurant right before security. My mom and I had eaten there before and it was good. There is one very annoying waiter there, but luckily we never get him (although you can hear him constantly talking.)Our food was good though.

After we ate we went through security. This time I didn’t have to go through the full-body scanner nor get the extensive pat-down. I simply walked through the metal detector and that was that. There was small incident with a stupid TSA woman running the x-ray machine. She kept yelling for people to pick up their items and move away from the security area. Since I was waiting for my mom to be finished I stayed right where I was. I will never understand why the TSA has some many lanes and employees just standing talking to each other and yet only have two lanes open when most of the international flights at the same time.

We waited for our flight and even reminded the guy at the gate that we would need to pre-board and yet when it came to boarding they were unprepared for us. We took the elevator to the plane where I had to ask the flight attendant to take the chair while we went to our seats (since no one from the airline was there to help us.)

IcelandAir is not the best or most modern airline. The plane looks like it is from the 1980s. It is also the only trans-Atlantic airline that makes you pay for all food and yet they only sell light snacks on a 5 hour flight. They also make you pay 3 Euros (even though Iceland doesn’t use the Euro) for headsets to watch movies like “Independence Day” and other films from the 1990s. There was one incident during the flight when the guy behind us got up to take something out of the overhead compartment and a bag with a computer fell right on my mom. It really hurt her and yet the guy made it seem like it wasn’t his fault. He is the only one who stood up and moved things while we were sitting. He was a complete idiot and I let him know just what I thought of him.

When we landed in Keflavik we took the airport’s chair off the plane. We went through Icelandic Immigration (where we had no problems) and then had to get on a bus in the pouring rain (the bus had no ramp and we had to lift the chair off and on) to go to the main terminal. Our bags came within 20 minutes - as promised by IcelandAir – but we had to wait a while for our chair. We then went through Customs where we had to take the Flybus (as per our prepaid vouchers.) I had heard and read that everyone in Iceland speaks English, but found many - especially those in the tourism business – that did not. The bus driver kept speaking in Icelandic to me when I told him he had to put the chair under the bus with our bags. I finally had to get mean and shout “You…… This…… There” and make sure he put it on the bus before I got on and found a seat. I should say here that I have found the majority of Icelandic people do not understand numbers or time (maybe that’s why their whole economy completely collapsed in 2008.) The bus was full to capacity, but more on the numbers and time later. We took the big bus to a depot where the bus driver (speaking only in Icelandic) told us all to get off on top smaller shuttle buses. In the pouring rain my sister had to find which shuttle bus was ours where I got us seats and then helped her and my dad with the chair and bags.