Brisbane to Cairns

It was only 12 hours earlier I was at the airport taking photos but today I am back for another reason, I am off to Cairns on business trip. I had a 7 am flight so I set the alarm for 5am but since I was awake at 4.15 I thought I would get up. As I left home I noticed the sky was clear and I thought this will be a great day for flying.. BUT the closer I got to the airport the worse the weather became. I arrived at the airport at 5.45 to heavy rain (go figure hey) I checked in and I was really disappointed, but not surprised, as when I made the booking I requested a business class upgrade for 10,000 points but as usual it got rejected. The QANTAS Frequent Flyer program is such a pain in the arse, they want you to join and gather points for flights etc but they don't like you using them.  I cleared security and made my way to gate 18 to where my 737-838 was waiting. The aircraft this morning was VH-XZA and I was sitting in 18F.

We boarded at 6.40 am and pushed back at 6.59; We started taxiing for runway 19 at 7.04; we had a rolling start and became airborne at 7.08. As we climbed out we lost view of the ground and the city really quickly as our aircraft was enveloped in cloud, the climb was bumpy and rough but not uncomfortable. We climbed to flt lvl 380 and from there the flight was very smooth. We commenced our descent into Cairns at 8.48 and landed on runway 15 at 9.19, we taxied into gate 22.
 

CUSTOMS De HAVILLAND DASH 8 VH-ZZC (CN 433) 

CARE FLIGHT LEAR JET 45 VH-CXJ (CN 152)

WEST WING AVIATION BEECH 200B VH-XDV (CN BB-1100)

TOLL FREIGHT FAIRCHILD SA-227 VH-UZN (CN DC-881B)

SILK AIR B737-8SA 9V-MGC (CN 44219)

SILK AIR 822 OFF TO SINGAPORE

LEFT; VIRGIN AUSTRALIA B737-8FE VH-VUK (CN 36602)
RIGHT; VIRGIN AUSTRALIA B737-8FE VH-YFR (CN 41012)

ROYAL FLYING DOCTORS KING AIR VH-FDF (CN BB-1696)

 (NEW) SKYTRANS De HAVILLAND DASH 8 VH-QQG (CN 036)

BELOW TWO AIRCRAFT ARE FROM THE OLD SKYTRANS
THAT WENT INTO RECEIVERSHIP JAN 2015
(FULL STORY ON MY POST IN JANUARY 2015)

SKYTRANS De HAVILLAND DASH 8-300 VH-QQP  (CN 232)

SKYTRANS De HAVILLAND DASH 8 -300 VH-QQN (CN 276)

GATES LEAR JET 36A N16FN (CN 027)

HEVILIFT ATR 42-500 P2-KSL (CN 497)

CESSNA 402C VH-JOH (CN 402C0486)

ROYAL FLYING DOCTOR CESSNA 208B VH-NQC (CN 208B 2138)

AIR NORTH EMBRAER 170 VH-SWO (CN 17000081)

AIRNORTH 161 OFF TO DARWIN VIA GOVE

HINTERLAND CESSNA 208B VH-TFS (CN 208B-1006)

AIRFAST McDONNELL DOUGLAS MD 80 PK-OCR (CN 53452)