10/29 Mother in front of the biometric gate, rocking her child by changing the angle that her straightened legs form, left and right.

Why is it called “flight information” on the screens inside the plane? Why isn’t it just the flight? Or the speed? What is a bird’s flight information?

The vegetarian meal option contains balls of impossible meat. A woman in the row before us is appalled by it, complains to the attendant that she did not get the vegetarian option. I can’t see whether, after an explanation, she actually eats it, but she does study the paper menu again carefully, in apparent disbelief. 

Flashing red light on the front bulge of the plane, seen from above by the exterior camera at the front of the vertical stabilizer, the only thing visible in the dark, and the image is muddled by water or ice around the lens.