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Friday 25 July
According to the papers the day we flew to LA was expected to be the busiest day at T5 so far. We met at 8am at check in, it was busy but it was also working! Despite there being loads of people in queues for fast bag drop it still only took ten minutes to get our bags tagged.

Unfortunately the joys of staff travel meant that we couldn’t go through to the departure lounge until we were allocated seats on the plane and we didn't get these until -45 minutes. The bottom lip was out big style as this meant we didn't have time to experience the beautiful galleries lounges (and hence fill our bags with free food and grab a free Hello) or splash our cash in world duty free. The toys were just about to be thrown out of the pram when all was forgiven - we saw that our seats were in First class!

At -40 minutes to departure we sailed through fast track security and were at T5b ready to board the plane in only 10 minutes…