Another late flight on a business trip to Stockholm. I actually like these more than I like the early flights... I don't want to wake up at 4:30 or 5am... but this time I was also tired, having been back earlier in the morning from Lithuania weekend trip, and now this plane was even more late.
They were waiting for passengers from connecting flights. We finally found them, but the flight turned out to be almost an hour late. I got to my hotel in Stockholm past one.
But it was an eerie feeling to be at the Helsinki airport so late. Fortunately the lounge was running, so I had a late dinner, in an otherwise empty lounge.
And when the plane finally was in the air, we got the first glimpse of the morning sunset (or late sunset?) somewhere up north:
Airport at night:
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