“Bondi Beach” at Sydney Airport On May 9th, 2011 I turned up at my gate at Sydney’s Kingsford Smith to find the plane that was being for the 1hr 36min DJ 818 servic to Melbourne was one of Virgin Australia’s brand new 737s: VH-YFCcalled: “Bondi Beach”. The plane had landed in Australia four days before, the day that Virgin Blue became Virgin Australia. I was seated up front in Seat 1A which is one of Virgin Australia’s brand new business class seats (Virgin Blue started as a one class airline). There are eight such seats on the plane -two…
July No Fly
I am attempting to not fly for a month!This has meant several long distance train trips: Melbourne- Adelaide (twice) Adelaide-Melbourne and coming up Adelaide-Sydney! This has been my office:
767-the excitement!!
Ok, I am excited. My 767th flight of my life is booked on Air New Zealand from Perth to Auckland August 30th on a Boeing 767 of course! Never flown that sector before.This from what I can tell will be my 108th 767 flight. So far this year I have flown my: 737th flight on a Southwest 737747th flight on a Qantas 747757th flight on a United 757 I wonder who will get to be my 777th flight’s carrier? V Australia is my preference but that is not looking possible. Watch this space! And as for…
Tiger Australia still grounded
Tiger Australia is still grounded….looks like until August. Crikey says why
Air India to start 787 service to Melbourne in October! NO!
Media Reports are full of the news that: “Melbourne will be the first Australian city to receive scheduled 787 service when Air India deploys the aircraft on its new Delhi-Melbourne route in October.” (Flightglobal.com). Seeing that’s my home city, I took an interest. Context first: This news came amidst celebrations accompanying the touchdown of a 787 at Indira Gandhi International airport in New Delhi. Air India has 27 of the planes on order and got $45million in compensation for their delayed delivery (three years now). Air India is the number two customer for the 787 after Japan’s ANA.…
Buildings of Brasília – Awe Inspiring Capital
Aboard the tourist bus I have two more blogs to conclude my description of my experiences of Brasilia, the planned capital city of Brazil. The previous four are: Boggling Brasília – overview of a planned metropolis June 14, 2011- Bewitching Brasília -birds eye view of the capital June 17, 2011- Appraising Brasília –How does this planned city rate? July 28, 2011: Touring Brasília – the Tourist Experience Tomorrow’s Blog will tackle the fundamental problem of Brasília- successfully being a pedestrian! I took a very informative Tourist bus for a two hour tour of Oscar Niemeyer’s awe inspring architecture. Niemeyer’s was responsible for most of the…
Airbus Hail Storm
I have been in a bird strike where the windscreen of a small plane was shattered as were taking off from Kirkwall airport in the UK. These images of what hail can do to an Airbus 330 are astounding. This must have been quite a storm. The Emirates A330-200 (registration A6-EAP) was en route from Dubai, UAE to Munich, Germany as flight EK501. The plane went through a hail zone, 30 nautical miles south of Vienna, Austria. The crew decided to divert and landed safely at Prague, Czech Republic 40 minutes later. Passengers then travelled by…
More 787
Great review from the Sydney Morning Herald about the 787 – what do you think?
Road Warrior Help and Advice sought!
I travel with a whole stack of electrical cords, plugs and outlets. I have stored them all together in a little box. They got all tangled up and the box is thicker than I want for my hand luggage. I then stored them in 3 little bags which fit into my small pockets of my laptop bag- I then forget what is in which bag! How do you store your cords, plugs and adaptors? I need something which protects, is light, 2.5cm thick (can be 60cm wide), not too expensive, is easy to access stuff from my…
The World Visits my Blog
This month, my Blog turns one! Although to be fair no one looked at my Blog in the first month! Since then, almost 12 500 people have peeked at a post. In June, 2011, I had the highest number of visitors. In May, I had my second highest number of visitors to this Blog. Favourite Posts? A lot of readers share my passion for the A380 with almost one in ten enjoying Three Airlines-one plane- comparing the A380. People seem to enjoy my reviews about plan flightses. eg my Reviews of V Australia Australia to LA and Royal…
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