All this for $212!

For $212 dollars we got a one way ticket to Berlin on Iceland Express! Not only that but it came with a free sauna (the plane was about 95 degrees), a free tour of the 5 boroughs of New York City both by night, when the plane took off at 10:30 two hours late, and returned to Newark one hour later and when we took off again at 11:02 am the next day. We got a real life lesson in cabin pressure (when the forgot to close the door, they told us it was a “bad seal” but I think someone just forgot to close it all the way)


We got to spend 14 glorious hours in a small cordoned off area around the gate. We were told we are allowed to leave to go to other parts of the airport but we couldn’t come back to the gate through security until 7:30 am when the TSA people came back. TSA also threw in an extra security screening when they kicked everyone out of the gate area at 7:00 am to “sterilize” the gate. BUT WAIT there’s more! Since the cabin was never pressurized the first time Jessie who’s ears never pop got to feel the thrill of a precipitous drop and increase in pressure without being able to “pop” them!
Just when you though it couldn’t get any better we take off at 11:02 am the day after our 8:30pm flight for another spectacular view of the 5 boroughs this time in the daylight!

Really the only saving grace was some spectacularly funny people who we passed the time with

(they probably weren’t actually funny we were just zonked on all the free food and booze the airline provided us with during our 14.5 hour delay. Oh wait we didn’t get any food or drink until 8:00 am after we were kicked out through security and me and Jessie bought some food ourselves. Not to mentions we didn’t eat lunch or dinner the day before and everything in the airport was closed when our aborted flight got back. Actually at about 3 am one of the Newark airport guys(not an employee of Iceland express) went out to the store and bought a chocolate cookie and a bag of chips for 145 people on his own dime. not very good for an unsettled stomach at 3 am but it was a nice gesture. Thanks Iceland express.


I would say you get exactly what you pay for but I talked to a girl who paid 900 dollars for her one way flight to Iceland and of course missed the funeral she was going back for anyways.
The real icing on the cake was the cute couple who were quietly snogging next to us on the first leg around NYC. Later we found out that they were flying to their own wedding in Nice carrying on her wedding dress and his tux. Unfortunately the wedding is starting approximately 4 hours before we are going to arrive in Iceland; I hope they don’t get started without them. I told them I legally was allowed to marry people by the Universal life church, and I think they were starting to consider it as a valid option. I wish I had a good photo of them they as they were a very cute couple.

Max