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MONDAY 20 December
Monday 20 December 19:30UTC
Max Swanson sweated in the back of the Uber and read the electronic boarding card on his phone for the fifty-fourth time. Flight BA247 from London Heathrow to São Paulo, scheduled departure 21:10, gate to be announced, last bag drop 20:10, one hour before departure. Snow fell lightly, flakes melting and sliding down the windscreen before the intermittent wiper blades swept them away. They edged forward in the solid traffic.
The driver didn’t seem to have much sense of urgency.
“How long till we get to terminal 5?”
“GPS says within half an hour, guv. Can’t do nothin’ about it. Weather...
Max Swanson sweated in the back of the Uber and read the electronic boarding card on his phone for the fifty-fourth time. Flight BA247 from London Heathrow to São Paulo, scheduled departure 21:10, gate to be announced, last bag drop 20:10, one hour before departure. Snow fell lightly, flakes melting and sliding down the windscreen before the intermittent wiper blades swept them away. They edged forward in the solid traffic.
The driver didn’t seem to have much sense of urgency.
“How long till we get to terminal 5?”
“GPS says within half an hour, guv. Can’t do nothin’ about it. Weather...
