The Etihad Experience
There’s a lot of phrases relating stress to physical weight. A weight off my shoulders. The weight of the world on my shoulders. Etc. And I can now tell you exactly how much weight is required for something to become a stressful event. It’s 7.1+kgs. Allow me to explain. I booked our flights to and from Indonesia with Etihad. They had two selling points that trumped all other options. Price. And a heavily subsidised 3 night stop over in Abu Dhabi on the way back – we stayed at a rather grand 5* hotel for less than half the going rate. I booked Basic Economy tickets, which comes with no checked-in luggage and a pretty miserly single 7kg cabin bag – no personal bag allowed. Everything must go in that one bag. I did this because there was a change of planes in the Emirates on the way there, with only an hour and 20 minutes between flights. That’s quite tight. Would the handlers get our bags off the ginormous A380 and across to the 787 in time? Why risk it. Anyway, I figured that we could p...