17 September 2011
Sydney Airport
The flight from Tokyo to Sydney was uneventful.
I was pleasently surprised to find not only had I been upgraded to premium economy, but due to low seat sales to Tokyo since Tsunami and nuclear holocaust, Qantas are selling the business class cabin as premium economy.
So I got a fully lay flat bed, and there were only 3 people in the entire cabin section.
I tried hard to watch the new pirates of the carribean movie, but it was just too boring, once I had eaten too much and put my bed flat...I laid flay for 9 hours before landing in Sydney.
I now have a 4 hour flight in the Sydney business lounge followed by a flight to Adelaide which takes 2 hours, but since I make that same flight each and every week for work, I doubt I will bother updating this again, unless North Korea targest Australia by accident instead of South Korea.
So much leg room I cant even get near the bulk head, the seat goes pretty much fully flat, it is longer than I am.
Redundant picture of the seats next to me, which remained vacant.
Dinner was however from the economy menu, still it was ok, some sort of beef ragout.
Strangely they did offer the full wine menu, but thats not much good to me.
After arriving in Sydney, you have to transfer by bus. The customs area at Sydney was a zoo, with multiple jetstar flights having arrived and all of them with their baseball caps on, stocking up on duty free smokes and booze and generally being lost confused and angry.
However, on the flight I was given a priority pass and walked straight out via a dedicated customs gate then straight to the front of the line of immigration where the they didnt even look at my form, then straight onto the bus past waiting people (I felt like an idiot at this point because I think some of them had been waiting for a while).
One last airport shower, this time in the domestic business lounge. Showers in airports are the best idea ever.