Part 1 - Pre-flight

Due to the wonderful traffic conditions caused by APEC, we left promptly at 7:30am for our 12pm flight. (Vladimir Putin arrived at 7:30 am that morning and hence the undercity route to the airport was closed until 8). Upon arrival we found that the rest of Sydney had the same idea :) The usually quiet departure hall was filled with people waiting for flights at 12. With a stroke of luck I bumped into Helmut! On his way to a conference and round the world trip :)


Oh yes, in case I forgot...Helmut, there was only one female stewardess on my flight and she was pretty average, the rest were..pretty average too. I hope it was better on your flight! (I did meet a very cute Hongkie chick though, but that's another story).

Lets move onto the the flight. First thing, for some reason Viva Macau prints their gate number where the seating is and their seat numbers where the gate is. So some passengers ended up at gates on the other side of the airport before realising they had to be at the end at gate 56. That's just a minor technical error, nothing much.

At 11:30 (30 minutes before the listed departure time) we took off much to the surprise of all the passengers. No complaints from me though.