As our British Airways flight climbed to cruising altitude on the way to Prague, head flight attendant announced that drink service would begin once the captain turned off the seatbelt sign. A few minutes later, he announced that there was a problem with the fresh water system on the aircraft preventing the cabin crew from brewing coffee and tea, and cutting off water supply to the plane's lavoratories. I had been nodding off and thought that the purser said "Toilets cannot be flushed normally, so we will be providing buckets of water to be used for that purpose." Actually, the toilets could be flushed as per usual (to borrow a phrase from the British), but sink faucets would not operate so bottles of water would be placed in the lavoratories so passengers could wash their hands.
The flight arrived on time, and the Prague airport is much smaller than Heathrow, so it looked like we would be able to quickly retrieve our bags and get to our hotel. Not so. Because the number of Czech immigration staff available to check passports (about a 10-15 second process) were so few compared to the number of incoming passengers who were not EU citizens, it took over a half hour of standing in a slow moving "Conga Line" to be officially admitted to the country.
