SYD to CBR

[skyring]

SYD to CBR,
originally uploaded by skyring.

I almost missed this final flight, and I puffed up to the gate just in time. "Look, here comes Mickey!" they said, but I was glad to make the flight.

The captain was trying for a record, and it was quite the anticlimax after all the long flights I've taken to have the final one a mere 30 minutes of flying time. Actually 29 minutes, by my watch. I didn't bother with the snack they offered - I'd been snacking for hours in the Qantas Club in Sydney.

After all my travels, i've put on five kilos. All that grat food and wonderful company, and an almost total lack of exercise.

I spent most of yesterday sleeping, cayching up. And in two hours I've got my first taxi shift.

It was an amzing trip, I had a great time, now I have to pay back the plastic and start saving for the next.

And do a lot more writing. I am so far behind!

Comments

[awaywithfairy1.livejournal.com]

They actually served a snack on a 30 minute flight? They would have had to start pushing the trolley down the aisle BEFORE takeoff!

[skyring.livejournal.com]

When the takeoff is to the south, that means that arrival in Canberra is from the north, so it's a pretty simple leg off the end of one runway and onto the end of the other, with not much in the way of turns in between.

And yeah, they pull out the cart and roll it uphill before the climbout is complete, and they are still collecting stuff when the captain orders the cabin prepared for landing.

Usually it's a drink and a prepared snack - an apple and a muffin and a piece of cheese in Economy, something like that. Sometimes it's the "Cabin Service Olympics - hope you enjoy your indigestion, sir!".