We then got a text about 10 miles or so outside of LHR from the excellent Tripit.com to tell us that the outward flight to Calgary had been delayed by five hours, and wouldn't leave until 18:15, arriving at 20:30 (Canadian time).
Fortunately AirCanada fly three times a day from Heathrow, and managed to swap my ticket to the 16:15 flight without charge... Cool.
I had to wait an hour or so before I could check in my luggage though, but free WiFi at Starbucks meant that that wasn't the end of the world.
It turns out that my case was over weight (you try being a photographer going to Canada for the first time and try to get down to 22kg!) - I had weighed it at home, but obviously balancing a case on bathroom scales isn't accurate enough!
Again, the AirCanada staff were excellent and allowed me two hand luggage bags, which dropped my main case enough to allow it to be checked in without any additional charge.
Bizarrely, Westjet (my internal flight operator) allows more weight, so I will have no problems there next week.
Waiting by the gate now - Just been informed that all seats onboard have power sockets that work with the iPad without using an adapter... Bonus.
Catch you all on the other side.
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