Our house guests graciously agreed to drop us off at LAX which made the trip to the airport much simpler. This was key since we realized just this morning that we booked our LAX to Heathrow flight on points and our Heathrow to Brussels flights separately on a different airline meaning we didn’t actually have time to retrieve our bags from Virgin Atlantic, go through customs, then re-check them on Brussels Air in our 75 minute lay-over. So – a flight to Europe with carry-on bags for the whole family it was! And after a 10 ½ hour flight and sprinting (literally) through the terminal and having the security gate closed just in front of us to allow an adjacent flight to off-board, we (us three and three other passagers) were the last on board our
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