That’s Lake Chad below us as we fly over West Africa. It’s always been a shallow lake, and it has shrunk dramatically over the last few decades, says Wikipedia (due to unsustainable water extraction).And here’s our KLM Airlines’s Airbus sitting at the gate in Amsterdam after flying for 11 hrs from Cape Town. (Well .. sitting at the end of a long telescopic walk way!).
I arrived in Amsterdam Thursday morning at around 11 am. I lucked out when I checked in : KLM offered business class seat upgrades at an 80% discount (which came to only a few hundred dollars).
So it was an easy decision for me to pay the money to sit up front in a big seat. I got a few hours of sleep in on the overnight flight, that way as well.
