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7 October 2009
Today we have an early start departing at 0650 flying Perth – Kuala Lumpur, self-connecting to hometown Kuching with a layover of 3h50 which gives us a little bit of buffer in case of delay. That would see us arriving into Kuching at 1805. The fare from Perth to Kuala Lumpur was AUD65 return plus […]
5 October 2009
I left for Perth on my own today as Kim was staying behind for another day to ensure his mother was well enough before joining me. It was a pleasant daylight flight leaving at 1425 and arriving at 1710.
29 September 2009
Despite some murmurs of aircraft weight issues, I managed to get on my standby flight home to Auckland. With the International Deadline, I arrived two days later.
22 September 2009
I flew out of Charles de Gaulle for Heathrow today, to meet up with Kim before boarding our flight together to Los Angeles. While I’m not usually a movie person on flights, I watched 5 TV programmes this time. Four of these were episodes of “Around the world in 80 trades”. This follows the journey […]
3 September 2009
We had a stressful departure as Kim had bought a Navman GPS for driving around the UK … after loading the UK/Europe maps it stopped working. Fortunately we live closed to the Navman warehouse and they opened up after hours so he could swap the unit out. It is funny that once things like that […]
26 July 2009
Above: Great Barrier Reef flying from Cairns. Flying on standby can be nerve-wrecking, especially when flights are busy and don’t run every day. We returned the rental car at Cairns airport. We were pleased to have boarding passes issued to us for the 1130 flight, not minding that we were stuck at the tail of […]
22 July 2009
I was meant to be jobless by now. So I booked a winter escape to Cairns and the Barrier Reef. But as it turned out, I got extended in my contract rather unexpectedly. So I get to keep a job and go on a short holiday. Having my cake and eating it too 🙂 Is […]
17 May 2009
Onboard the Malaysia Airlines B777, the 2-5-2 layout of the aircraft seating worked well for us. We were lucky to get a block of five seats to share between the both of us. It was possible for both of us to lie down at the same time, heads at either aisle and our legs pointing […]
1 May 2009
Leaving Auckland A trip to Sipadan has been long on the cards but prompted by expiring frequent flyer miles on Malaysia Airlines’ programme “Enrich”. In these days of fuel surcharges, the programme turned out very disappointingly compared to, say, Emirates’ very generous programme called “Skywards”. We needed 60,000 points from Auckland to Kuching, open-jaw to […]
12 April 2009
We got our boarding passes for the 1130 flight back to Auckland on standby with no hassles. When one is travelling standby, just getting a seat is good. Doesn’t matter front/back, aisle/window. Just a seat! The flight time is considerably shorter flying towards the east at only 4h15, and we landed at 1815.