First class, Baby!

Posted on February 6, 2007
Filed Under Australia - The land down under |

Mum leaves tonight on the first leg of her trip to Australia. I’ve very quickly slapped together an image of her flight path.

The red indicates her first flight; Montreal, Quebec to Vancouver, B.C. - 5 hours then an 8 hour layover
The yellow indicated the second flight; Vancouver, B.C. to Sydney, Australia (with a refuelling stop in Hawaii) - 18 hours then a 3 hour layover
The pink indicates the last flight; Sydney, Australia to Perth, Australia - 5 hours.

This makes a total travelling time of 39 hours from start to finish. Whew! It’s such a long flight and I know! I’ve done it 5 times now with different variations. I’ve stopped in London, Kuala Lumpur, Frankfurt, Tokyo and Detroit. Every time my bloody ankles swell and my knees ache from sitting for so long but I managed…lol

Fortunately, Mum is flying FIRST CLASS. Something I’ve never had the luxury of doing (on this flight.)

Don’t you love how they’ve changed it so that the people flying cattle car economy get to board at the front of the plane and get to walk right through first class on the way to their tiny seat waaaaaay in the back? They might as well station the flight attendants there to make comments on the way through…

“See what you can’t have?”

“Shoulda paid the extra couple of grand.”

“Look but don’t touch!”

Then the people who are in first class can titter over our gross lack of funds and toast with their champagne to being first class citizens. I digress.

Anyhow, Mum arrives Thursday afternoon and it seems like such a long time from now (Tuesday evening) until then. Guess I have time to clean and make the bed.

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