May 24 travel update

The Internet in the hotel went out at about 8:00 pm last night, preventing us from posting any blogs.

We are currently at Heathrow Airport, but our 1:00 pm flight to Reykjavik has been cancelled.  Darin Stromstad, our Concordia College Global Education Office contact who helped us with all the planning and did all the reservations for this trip, called us about a half an hour ago (around 4:30 am his time) to tell us we have been rebooked on Iceland Air flight 455 which is scheduled to leave late tonight.

Yesterday it appeared that Iceland Air did not cancel flights too far in advance of their scheduled departures, so we will have quite a wait before we find out if 455 gets cancelled or not.

There was one flight that flew from Heathrow to Reykjavik late last night, so a few flights seem to be getting through.

The students are all in good spirits.  They have all voiced concerns about getting back to MSP on time and not getting stranded in Iceland or London for any length of time.  They would prefer returning early to chancing a late return.  Right now it would take a huge effort and $$$ to change our bookings to allow that, but if we are not out of Heathrow by tomorrow morning, we will lobby hard to investigate that possibility.

The only internet available in this part of the airport (we don't have tickets yet so we can't check our luggage or go through security) is at internet kiosks that cost 1£ (about $1.70) for 10 minutes of internet time.  So, we'll keep posting here to let you know what happens, but only once in a while.