Brisbane to Melbourne Flight (August trip)

Today I had to travel to Melbourne for appointments over the next few days.

My flight was leaving at 6am and boarding was at 5.40 so I got up at 4am and left home at 4.15am.

I arrived at the airport around 4.50am and after clearing security I went up to the Qantas Club for breakfast. I made my way to gate 20 which is where my Qantas flight 605 was leaving from.

QANTAS B737-838 VH-XZK (CN 39366)

QANTASLINK DASH 8 Q400 VH-QOI (CN 4189)

QANTASLINK DASH 8 Q400VH-LQK (CN 4415)

QANTAS B737-838 VH-VXR (CN 33724)

QANTAS B737-838 VH-VXM (CN 33483) New Colour Scheme

ALLIANCE F28 MK 100 VH-XWO (CN 11280)

We began boarding at 5.33am and I took my seat which was 20F, the aircraft for today was the usual B737-838 and the rego was VH-VXP (CN 33722). The last time I flew on VXP was back on the 23rd May this year and I was in 9F. The last cabin door was closed at 5.49 and we pushed back at 5.52. We began taxiing for runway 01 at 5.57. Arriving at the Alpha 7 holding point we held short for around 2 minutes before lining up. We began rolling and got airborne at 6.02, after climbing to around 1,500 feet we banked right and continued a long slow bank flying back down past the airport.

As we climbed to 380 we continued our track to Melbourne via Tenterfield, Parkes and Shepparton then on into Melbourne. Since our flying time was going to be 2 hours 20 minutes I decided to watch a movie. I chose to watch "Going in Style" with Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman and Alan Arkin.
Very good movie which I really enjoyed. We began our descent at 7.55am and after flying downwind of the airport we turned 180 degrees and landed from the south on runway 34 at 8.22am.

AVALON AIRPORT

MELBOURNE CITY

ESSENDON AIRPORT RUNWAY 08

GARUDA INDONESIAN A330-343 PK-GPR (CN 1446)

EMIRATES A380-861 A6-EDB (CN 13)

EMIRATES A380-861 A6-EOW (CN 207)

AIR INDIA B787-8 VT-ANS (CN 36-290)

CHINA AIRLINES A330-243 B-5925 (CN 1434)