Moscow Airport: Waiting on tarmac for take-off clearance We haven't even pulled out from the gate yet and already this flight has gone for long enough. Of course, the two hour delay at the gate hasn’t helped, and for the life of me still cannot fathem how a flight can be delayed for takeoff due to our ‘weather conditions’ as flight control over the intercom so put it. Looking out of the airport lounge window, at our aircraft which was sitting at its gate, not a cloud in sight, nor evidence of any wind, just sunny blue skies. Sitting immediately behind me on board a two year old wails in the high pitch yell only a child could have. No, he is not in discomfort; he is just simply doing it because he can. After several
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