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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NSun" data-source="post: 2335223" data-attributes="member: 67375">Made it to YVR at 3pm and saw the 787 that'd take me home pulling in - VH-ZNH "Great Barrier Reef".[ATTACH=full]269267[/ATTACH]I waited until check in opened at 4.15pm. There were a few people there already and couldn't help striking up a conversation with them. One group was a couple who had spent a few weeks in Canada and were surprising their children who lived over here and hadn't seen them since COVID.There was also another person that had visited family but had to pay for the $400 COVID test at the airport because their $250 test 72 hours before never came back.The person checking me in was clearly a trainee as there was someone watching her who would double-check my documents. Got told to use the SkyTeam lounge. Cathay have a lounge but it is closed and potentially may never open again. SkyTeam lounge sufficed for a snack but waited till the flight for a substantial meal. Watched the Bills-Patriots game while in the lounge - which reminded me of a Hong Kong lounge in the sense that it was on an upper level and had a good view of the concourse.[ATTACH=full]269268[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]269269[/ATTACH]We boarded on time at 7.30pm. I managed to secure 1A.[ATTACH=full]269270[/ATTACH]Unfortunately despite boarding on time, we needed a new flight plan given the Tongan volcano. We ended up leaving at 10pm which was 2 hours late and ended up arriving nearly 3 hours late as the flight path was far longer. The full flight took 15 hours and 48 minutes and was just over 13,000 kilometres.Anyway: for dinner I had chicken and quinoa salad as entree, spiced lamb with sweet potato and kim chi pancakes as main and ice cream as dessert.[ATTACH=full]269271[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]269272[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]269273[/ATTACH]And here was breakfast.[ATTACH=full]269274[/ATTACH]Nothing like the first sight of land after a Trans-Pacific flight.[ATTACH=full]269276[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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