QF2

[khiemtran]

I've probably mentioned before how much I hate Heathrow Terminal 3...



But if you take QF2 from there to Sydney and the airport there is closed to due to fog...


You have this to look forward to in Melbourne...



That was the queue to get the next flight onwards to Sydney (on what is incidentally, one of the world's busiest air routes). It goes almost all the way to the far wall and then turns left. It took over an hour just to get to the front, only to find out that the next available flight was still another four hours away.

At least I got home safely in the end. In the grand scheme of things, a eight hour delay is still a better outcome than a plane crash.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I was in an airport today too! (Not for myself; I'm not traveling until August. I was taking Wakanomori and the healing angel there so they could catch a flight to England.) And it, too, was very crowded, with people headed for South America and the Caribbean, mainly.

And yes, an eight-hour delay is much, much preferable.

On my way home from East Timor, I'll have a five-hour or so layover in Sydney. If you're not in Malaysia (or elsewhere) at the time and are not far from the airport, maybe we can get together.

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

Sounds great! Just let me know the date, and I'll make sure I'm available if I'm in Sydney. Unfortunately, any sort of transfer at Sydney seems to consume at least two hours. It's that sort of airport...

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

It will be August 17--and it looks like it will be closer to a 7-hour layover (6 hr 55 min, so the itinerary tells me--though the arrival is at the inhospitable hour of 6:30 am... so those first couple of hours will not be useful.)

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

6:30 is actually relatively late for Sydney. There's a curfew until 5am, so there's usually a big rush of planes that will all come in early in the morning. I'm only about half an hour away from the airport and it will be a Saturday, so it shouldn't be a problem getting out there. I usually get up at 5 am on Saturdays anyway, so I can run to Cronulla.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I admire your early rising!

If you drop me a line at forrestfm at gmail dot com, I can give you the exact flight info (as I have it now), and once I'm in East Timor and have acquired a cell phone (the one I had--which just died--doesn't work overseas), I'll be able to call you.