Brisbane to Perth Flight

Yesterday morning we were at the airport at 6.30 am as our daughter was heading off to China on a two week school excursion; today we were back again, and although this is nothing new for me, this time I had my wife and younger daughter with me as we were heading off to Perth Western Australia for a holiday.

Our QANTAS flight 589 was leaving at 8.15 am so we arrived at the airport at 7am and after checking in we headed up to the food court for a quick pick me up.

Our Airbus 330-202 VH-EBK was waiting for us at gate 24; and we began boarding at 7.50; our seats for this sector was 50 G, J and K, we pushed back at 8.20am and began taxiing at 8.26am and we taxied for the full length of runway 19.

QANTAS A330-202 VH-EBK (CN 945)

VH-EBK was first delivered to Qantas in July 2008, in December 2009 it was repainted into the QANTAS subsidiary of Jetstar, where it remained in the Jetstar fleet for 6 years. On the 12th of September 2015 this aircraft returned to the QANTAS fleet in full QANTAS colours.

We lined up at Alpha One and began rolling at 8.34, after becoming airborne we made a slight left hand bank followed by a right hand bank, maintained that heading for another 5 mins then banked right again and set course for Perth. 

ARCHERFIELD AIRPORT

We climbed to flight level 380 and although we had a few slight bumps the flight was smooth and comfortable.

Our course today took us just north of Moree, over Bourke, skimming on long the coast line of the Great Australian Bight, over Norseman and then into Perth.

Western Australia is 2 hours behind the East Coast of Australia so we had to wind back our watches.

This flight is normally around 5 hours 40 mins long but we did it in 5 hours as we landed on Runway 21 at 11.32 Western Australian time.

During the flight I wondered to the back of the aircraft and was talking to one of the many friendly flight attendants named Brendan, he was extremely helpful in answering the many questions that I had.

The Airbus A330  has Panasonic eX3IFE in business class and WiFi iPads in economy.

Perth Airport (IATA: PER, ICAO: YPPH) is a domestic and international airport serving Perth, the capital and largest city of Western Australia. It is located in the suburb Perth Airport and is adjacent to the suburbs like Belmont and Redcliffe.

Since 1997, it has been operated by Perth Airport Pty Limited, a private company (formerly Westralia Airports Corporation Pty Ltd) under a 99-year lease from the Commonwealth Government. 
Perth Airport is the fourth busiest airport in Australia and services Australasian and Indian Ocean destinations, as well as Johannesburg, Auckland, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Guangzhou and Doha.
Perth Airport is serviced by 34 airlines flying to over 50 destinations
Perth Airport has two runways; the main runway which is asphalt is 03/21 and it is 3,444 metres (11,299 feet) long; the second runway is 06/24 and it is also asphalt is 2,163 metres (7,096 feet) long.
The airport has an AMSL of 20 metres (67 feet)