Our good friend Tom gave s a llift to the airport and stayed to have a coffee with us. Flight was 20 minutes late leaving Adelaide, but not a problem becase we had a few hours stopover in Melbourne.
Arrived and claimed our tourist tax refund on the new trablet I purchased for keeping our blog up to date.
Flight to Singapore is due to leave at 18:25, arriving at 0:30, a little ahead of time. We planned to stay awake on this leg and sleep ion the flight to Istanbul in the hope of time zoning our bodies.
We were boarded and ready to go ontime from the gate, but a problem with the air conditioning meant we sat on the tarmac for a while as they got it sorted. Ended up lifting off at 3:00 am for the 11 hour flight to Istanbul.
Ah, the old Melbourne Singapore flight path.
I hope you get upgraded to business class for at least this leg if not the long haul leg.
This is an excellent initiative and will be interesting to follow your adventures.
We will certainly be asking for an upgrade, but won’t be holding our breath.
How did the flight go? Any tips?
Fly business if you can afford it !! 🙂