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4 June 2004
I didn’t sleep a wink on the flight to Los Angeles. Before landing at 1440, the crew on board, knowing that we have a tight standby-connection onwards to London, shifted us to the front of economy class so we could disembark quickly. We cleared arrival formalities including the relatively new fingerprinting and photographing requirements fairly […]
4 June 2004
Today we travel from Auckland fly to London in order to spend time with my sister who is terminally ill, then have a short European holiday in some places that are new to me. We’re flying standby on staff tickets on this route which is an experience I term as “double jeopardy”. We will on […]
27 October 2003
We landed at Auckland about 20 mins ahead of schedule at 2300. The timing of our flight is a rather unusual one as most flights from Los Angeles depart at night and arrive at 0500 or 0600. I love the timing of our flight as we would go to bed tonight and not worry about […]
26 October 2003
This morning, it was Pat and Fiona’s turn to go to Santa Monica for a little outing. As for us, we were flying back to Auckland departing at 1335. We set of from the hotel by their complimentary shuttle about 1030. On the bus we met some Air New Zealand ground staff from New Zealand. […]
24 October 2003
Guernsey to London We had an early wake-up at 0615 with a long day ahead; we are flying from Guernsey to London and onwards to Los Angeles. David and Sis dropped us off at the airport where we checked in and boarded our Aurigny ATR72 flight to London Gatwick at 0755. I love the joys […]
7 October 2003
Above: Tower Bridge as we descend over London. Paris to London Today, we are bound for Sevilla in Spain, via London. After breakfast we took the metro to Opera and hopped on the Roissybus to Charles de Gaulle airport Terminal 1. It was much easier than the train! It may seem strange that we are […]
30 September 2003
Despite the comfort of the business class seats, I only had two 1h sleeps. We arrived in Los Angeles at 1345 for a 2h55 transit. Because the USA really provide for any international-to-international, we had to go through immigration. But special arrangements have been made for this to take place at the gate rather than […]
30 September 2003
Our evening departure at 2045 from Auckland wasn’t like our usual. We had Kim’s parents Pat and Fiona with us, along with friends Matt and Steph. All of us are hopefully bound for Los Angeles on standby, and subject to space on the aircraft continuing to London Heathrow. Before check-in, there was random manual baggage […]
27 May 2003
Despite the Business Class seat, I didn’t sleep on the flight home. We landed back in Auckland around 1010 and was picked up by Kim’s dad from the airport. What an adventure we have had in Sri Lanka and especially Iran, a rarely-visited gem that is so misunderstood. I can’t wait to see more of […]
19 May 2003
Leaving Iran We woke at 0445 as we have a morning flight from Esfahan to Tehran to connect on to Dubai. Kim had a bad night sleep and had been fighting a cold. We collected our passports at reception and set off for the airport at 0530, arriving there at 0600. It was another half […]