>> Good luck to everyone else getting home. SO.
Finally made it back from San Francisco on Saturday evening, after a 29 hour trek, including a visit to Frankfurt.
With no flight date from Virgin by Thursday evening we decided to ignore their advice(/instructions) to stay put in the hotel, checking out at 6.30 Friday morning and going to the airport in the hope of getting on as standbys. But we were offered guaranteed seats on a Lufthansa flight with a transfer from Frankfurt to Heathrow, so we took that.
Unfortunately, besides only having one movie to choose from instead of 50, when we got to Frankfurt it turned out that Virgin had messed up the booking so we didn't actually have a flight onward to London. After more stress and worry and rushing around, a very helpful Lufthansa lady managed to get us on a later flight, albeit only as standbys.
Fortunately we did get on it, and arrived back in the UK at about 7pm UK time on Saturday evening, or 11am SF time, somewhat frazzled, but relieved. Our luggage caught up with us at 10pm last night.
BTW while waiting at San Francisco we found out that we had been allocated a flight - this Thursday, or 13 days after our original flight date.
Good to be back!
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