Excess baggage

Whilst waiting to check in for my Turkish Airlines I watch the Check-in queues for an Kenyan Airways flight to Nairobi.
The amount of luggage, boxes and containers per family was frightening. I see no chance of the plane taking off whatsoever - it will be too heavy !
Box after Box disappeared down the belts, and having checked in, everyone trooped to the excess luggage desk to pay their due. I hope Kenyan Airways are not as expensive as Emirates - who charged me 300 pounds for an extra 15 kg, when I moved out to work in Sharjah

Impact of flight cancellations

It's funny living and working away from Europe. Tonight both Air France and Alitalia have cancelled their respective flights to Paris and Rome. It caused mayhem here, amongst the normal chaos that is Dubai airport. Lots of very stressed Europeans trying to find a way home. It's Friday, you're due home for the weekened for an important family appointment......been there done that. I guess if I had been in Europe, there would have been plenty of news footage but out here there has been zero coverage.
I knew about these cancelllations many hours ago as I was due to travel on the Air France flight, but my company's agent was informed yesterday 7am CET i.e. nearly 48 hours ago that the flight was cancelled. I was then going to travel via Rome with Alitalia, but that was cancelled , so my route to Algiers is via Istanbul and Turkish Airines. I will blog later on my experience & my first leg is full of Frenchman, who I guess will seek out a connection onwards to Paris from Istanbul............