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It's Monday the 16th May. Linda, Martine and I'm going to Moldova to participate in humanitarian work. Linda and I have been there before. I myself was there for the first time in 2007, and Linda and I were there in March 2011 - that is a little over two months ago. This time, Martine participate, and we are all excited about what adventures we're going to get. Martine is Linda's 17 year old daughter. Our flight departs at 0630, so we are sure tired when we meet Kåre Ness at the airport. It might be that when you fall asleep at one time and have to get up again at 0430.
When we were in Moldova last, we saw how miserable it is to many people in the country. Therefore we decided to bring something fadeless bulletin board paper extra baggage. Two extra suitcases that contained some great weather jacket, some t-shirts, and toys. The jackets are generously donated by fagforreningen Industry and Energy in Linda's employer Odfjell Drilling AS, t-shirts come from my employer NextGenTel AS, and toys are donated by friends in Bergen and ourselves. Everything is new and packaged in original packaging.
When you travel from Bergen to Moldova is the airline Air Baltic on the line. Air Baltic has a slightly different baggage policy than many other companies. This is so even if you have bought a ticket, you can not bring a case without ordering and paying for it. They allow only hand baggage up to 8 kg of a regular ticket. A case can not be heavier than 20 kg, and this is enforced strictly. Have you overweight required 15 Euro per extra kilo! Since we should have a total of five suitcases we specified this when the tickets were booked. The price is then 15 Euro per suitcase. While we packed our suitcases were weighed and repackaged several times to be absolutely sure that we were not going to risk having to pay extra fee. It does not matter if you have four suitcases weighing 10 kg and one weighing 21 kg. Then you have to pay 15 Euro for one kilo, or move one kilogram of another suitcase.
When we were checking in at the airport there were two counters operated Air Baltic's passengers. In the counter as we came to set a man who was quite new to the job. In the second set a lady who was in training. The man at the counter could first not find me in the system, but he found Linda and Martine, even if the tickets were booked in my name, and confirmation and reservation number sent to my e-mail. After some back and forth he managed luckily to find my name anyway, and the luggage fadeless bulletin board paper was checked. The suitcases disappeared one by one, and when the last case was headed fadeless bulletin board paper for the big hole in the wall, I discovered that it was RIX on the baggage tag. = RIX Riga! So there is no luggage checked all the way to Chisinau, which means we have to check in again in Riga, with all that implies of liens. I asked the man why the luggage was not checked in all the way and he mumbled something fadeless bulletin board paper elusive that he could not get up "connecting flight" in its system. Just what I think probably not so much, as it would be normal to inform the client that if he had tried to get it. Personally I think that he simply forgot that it should have been done that way. Moreover, there is a connecting flight anyway, so I should make the minimum effort to figure it out, or what? Well, the damage is done and there is not much likely that we could persuade him to retrieve the five suitcases fadeless bulletin board paper back out and try again. He could still not get a connecting flight in their system, so there is nothing to do but to take additional work in Riga. There we will have 90 minutes for us if our flight is on time.
When Kåre checked in with the same forwarder little fadeless bulletin board paper later it was no problem to find a connecting fadeless bulletin board paper flight, so Kåres luggage was checked all the way. We fit naturally to ask the man to do this right before he got the chance to forget away.
Well well, we got on board the plane and landed in Riga behind schedule. fadeless bulletin board paper Kåre went on through fadeless bulletin board paper the transfer and we had to go and get our luggage. It came pretty quickly, and after a quick trip outside to have a smoke, we asked ourselves in line for check-in. The queue was of course very long, so it took a while to get to the counter.
When we were checking fadeless bulletin board paper in, it was pretty clear that the officer believed that this was a big problem. We had obesity, she said. We explained almost fadeless bulletin board paper triumphantly that it probably was not the case, as we had booked and paid for two extra suitcases. The lady had on the face mine who just get it to explode in my lavkapasitetshjerne, but I at