Now this is what I call boarding!

On Monday morning, 19th March, I leave Nairobi for Kigali.
The boarding process for this 1hr flight was very funny. There was a flight for Istanbul and one for Kigali both boarding from the same gate. Two different queues but no indications as to which was which. Ok, having muddled through that and into the lounge (shared by the two flights), someone announced that “the plane is boarding now” but didn’t indicate which one...and the Istanbul one was due to leave within minutes of mine. Asked the gate staff and was told the Rwanda airways flight was going first – but I was booked on Kenya airways according to the ticket. No, I was told, you are actually on Rwanda airways. Fine. Out the door and – brilliant! We walk to the plane across a busy tarmac. None of those stupid shuttle buses that take you 50meters (or 20 meters, as at Mumbai domestic for flights to Goa). There are trucks, luggage trailers and other planes taxiing across the tarmac that we had to wait for or scoot across in front of. Then, identify your baggage on the tarmac and walk right under the plane wing and rear engines (an old MD80) and up the rear hatch. Some poor buggers were still standing on the runway, milling around, when we taxied off, probably missing their luggage. The flight itself was, luckily, unremarkable.