Thursday, 17 April 2008

Leg 9 : Sydney to Hong Kong : 4587 miles

We leave the southern hemisphere and head back home, with a two day stopover at Hong Kong to break up the journey. Goodbye sun and summer, hello cloud and winter.
Our aeroplane was a modern Airbus A330-300 which is a 767 equivalent with a 297 passenger capacity. There are only 10 of this type of aircraft in the Quantas fleet. Crusing altitude was 36,000 ft; and it took 3.5 hours(! - it's a big place) to cross Australia (crossing the coast west of Darwin).