We left Changi Airport Singapore bang on time at 8.05 pm (1.05 pm UK time) and arrived at Christchurch International Airport bang on time at 10.05 am this morning Friday 15th March. The only difference is that I'm now 13 hours ahead of you and beginning to feel the full impact of jet lag after a 25-hour journey.
The attached photo was taken whilst awaiting clearance for take-off – hence the 0kpmh & 1m altitude! - shows our flight path straight across the centre of Australia. Later this year I will be taking the Indian Pacific train from Perth to Sydney but in March 2025 I will be aboard the Ghan Train that will take me through many of the places shown on this flight plan. So more Blogs to come!!
If I thought the controls for the bed were complicated on the flight from the UK they were nothing compared with those for this flight! It turned out that there were none. You just folded the bed down yourself!! I decided that my muscle memory from 25 years of commuting by train to London and return that allowed me to sleep to the very second the train pulled into London or back to Pluckley had returned sufficiently for me to just slope my seat back and snooze. Well it worked but not sufficiently given how tired I feel at the moment – its 15.40hrs here on Friday 15th March.
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