Goodbye Moeraki - part 2

Good old Jetstar....All was going well for our 4.35pm flight until we were informed at the gate that the plane had encountered a bird strike on landing and now couldn’t leave until an engineer had cleared it safe to fly.
Not a major problem except..... there were no engineers in Dunedin!! They provided an update half an hour later at departure time to say they were flying an engineer down ... from Christchurch..... and he would arrive at 7.10pm for the inspection and then a call would be made whether we flew or not!! Bugger it!!
We then spent time trying to work out what to do if it didn’t go, would they put another plane on tonight ( no), would they fly out tmrw ( yes but too late for our international flight, is Airnz flying ? Yes... how much?..... $534 each!! Etc etc
In the end we bought a fully refundable ticket each for tmrw am to guarantee a seat out to catch our international flight whatever the outcome with Jetstar.
At 7pm the engineer had landed and by 7.30pm we were being boarded.... yippee!!!
The Airnz flight was immediately cancelled as refunded.
Arriving in Auckland at 9.20pm Pip came to the rescue with an airport pick up and several lovely glasses of wine in the new house she and Shaun moved into on Friday!! We were the first house guests!
Sorry Pip for the late night... 1am by the time we had finished chatting.
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