Scotland Mission Trip 6/29/12: flight from RDU to Heathrow was on a small 767. There were no seat-back DVD screens and I sat apart from group since Daynette Orr's name change messed up seat assignments. My seat mate was Mike Gerber and he was going to meet his family in Paris (a fine Christian man origannly from Illinois and now a manager in a construction type insurance company)!  The real ordeal came at Heathrow! The que to get through customs and collect baggage had literally hundreds of people and an estimated two hour time. I asked an airport worker what we should do since we were to fly out of Gatwick at 11:20 and he just said to forget it... "it's a two hour drive to the other side of London and even if we had our luggage we couldn't make it!" a few minutes later I asked the same question of a lady in charge of " the fast track" lane. After a few minutes she let our group through, we walked FOREVER tp the Central Bus and Train station, I bought 6 tickets for 150 pounds, and we were told that we had 4 minutes to catch bus #15 to Gatwick and we should make it to Gatwick by 10 a.m. We hustled to find bus #15 and when we did the driver didn't want to let us on? Another driver argued with him and then he took us! We made the connection from Gatwick to Edinburg... But then upon arrival realized that we had no boarding passes through to Kirkwall... So the kind lady with British Air shot us directly to our departure gate for Kirkwall where two agents hand wrote boarding passes for us. Kimsey and I were moved to the two front seats to "balance the plane" and enjoyed the company of Rachel, the flight attendant from Glasgow. Upon arrival in Kirkwall we were told that we only had 10 minutes to get to the Westray Ferry.... Made that and are on route now at 5:22 p.m. (their time) to Westray with Kirsty Hagan! Whew!!!!!