Today I did it the other way around, going from Sydney (YSSY) to Auckland, flying the opposite way to the direction the globe was spinning, and arriving just 1 hour later (local time), even though the flight was two and a half hours long.
The aircraft I used was the POSKY Boeing 767-300ER in the beautiful colours of Australian Airlines, a subsidy of Qantas, who have been flying the QF767 routes to Auckland this week.
Note 56k'ers: 11 images to follow- 1001KB :?
1. Pushback at the gate from Kingsford Smith International
2. Climbing through the clouds above Eastern Austrlia
3. A view from the rear showing the Abouriginal art on the tail
4. Crusing at FL300 above the sea
5. Orange is a great colour to paint aircraft, don't you think?
6. Crossing the Western NZ coastline
7. Descending down to 8000 feet over the countryside
8. Turning again over the Hauraki Gulf
9. On finals over photoreal Manuaku City
10. Smokey Touchdown
11. Parked at the gate. (Looking foward to the payware version of NZAA being released later this year
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