Blogs from Mascot, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania - page 2

Finally the day has come! Teary farewells and the champagne accompanied transfer to the airport are long forgotten as the excitement kicks in. Tickets & bags checked - check. Passports stamped - check. Carry-on scanned - hmmm. So my dear husband now referred to as PL has no idea of carry-on restrictions and me in my ever frantic lead up didn't even think to broach the subject. My carry-on scans through, no problem, but PL's is another story - here goes... So PL has no idea of the liquid limits on international flights and has packed his entire toiletry bag in his carry-on luggage. Following scanning, security proceed to confiscate shaving cream, hair gel and other random 'beautifying' products... The bag is then re-scanned only to be ushered for a secondary search. The guy searches PL's ... read more

Monday 21st May 2012 – Left Canberra yesterday afternoon – seems like days ago! Caught a 5:00 pm flight to Sydney, then boarded the Emirates A380-800 with hundreds of others all going to Dubai. After leaving Sydney, we flew south of Broken Hill, to just south of Whyalla (across the top of Spencer Gulf) before starting to track a more northerly course after overflying Ceduna. By 23:35 Eastern Standard Time, we were 1,053 km from Sydney, travelling at 916 kph (Mach 0.84). We travelled east of Meekathara, south of Uluru, south of Port Headland. At 07:10 Eastern Standard Time, we were flying over Colombo. At 11:10 Eastern Standard time on Monday 21/5/2012, we arrived in Dubai, after flying 5,542 miles (about 9,000 km). The flight was very long and tiring. As I write thi... read more

Hi guys! thought one of the easiest ways to keep in touch with everyone was just to continue the blog that glen and i usually do so here i am! just to let you know i have arrived safely in sydney, very long journey, lots of travel sickness, not much sleep and my eyes are bright red now so i look like a drug abuser. dont think i travel particularly well. sydney is cold and wet and I am only five mins from the airport as i have to go back in the morning for my flights to auckland so i really dont have much to report at this stage other than that i completed the first leg successfully. missing everybody lots, i am getting a bit sick of my own company at the moment so ... read more

In order to preserve their unblemished record Virgin cancelled my flight and offered me one that left shortly after dawn or one that arrived in Sin City minutes before the plane to Singapore departs so I opted for the only sensible course and so I was up before the sparrows for the drive to town for the taxi to the airport. So far so good, through the security check, shoes set off the alarm, bags scanned for explosives, flight to Sin City and a mere seven and a half hours to kill in terminal X. I wandered across to the Qantas terminal, through security again, shoes, beep, damn! on to the transfer lounge and was told to go out again and check my bag at gate 25. Gate 25 tell me that I can't check in ... read more

Beza It"s like I've died and gone to heaven, except way better! Today started off badly, I was upset seeing as I burnt my face the night before and had to put this cream on it. I soon got over it because we had heard back from the travel agent saying that our upgrade to first class had been approved, wich is enough to put a smile on anyones face, even my hidiously burnt one. So we went to the Canberra airport and I managed to get a hug from my brother along with a request for gum, lots of gum. Whike heading into the qantas lougne, we were informed that there was no apparent upgrade on our details and that we would have to take things up with sydney airport. So after a very brief ... read more