Our flight, Qantas QF609 was scheduled to depart BNE for Melbourne at 6:50, so we Arrived at Brisbane Domestic at about 5:50am. The previous day, I had selected seats online for the Boeing 737-800 we were supposed to be flying. Row 20, K.
On Arrival at the airport, you now cannot check in manually with a staff member on Qantas, you have to use there little auto machine. Its quite good though, scan your eticket and away you go. Then, if you have bags just drop them off. As we did, we lined up, but due to a pretty big line a few moments later all those remaining QF609 passengers were called through.
At the Gate, I wandered over to 17 to check out the Rego of our 73H. Unfortunently, our flight had been changed to an older 737-400 machine. I was slightly displeased but flying none the less. VH-TGT..
Waiting to Board
On Board, we taxyed out to Runway 19 and without delay lifted of to Melbourne. The captain said there were very high headwinds above FL300, so we stayed below that altitude for the duration of the flight, obtaining some nice views.
About 40 minutes after departure, Breakfast was served, which consisted of a basic meal with some Cereal, Juice, Fruit and a Roll.
As the captain announced on the PA, we started decent into YMML into runway 34, which was good as I could get a good view of the city on Finals.
We Landed on 34 and taxyed in to a reasonably quiet MEL and walked out of the terminal.
More Later, Stay Tuned!
I love sitting just behind the wing during a trip like that
cant have everything i guess
