Alex is a big fan of commercial airlines. Today was the Canberra Airport open day and there was no way he was going to miss this opportunity of being up close to the big birds. You would think with all the travelling he does every year he would be less interested but nope, the boyish glazed look of joy still shows itself when the prospect of being close to a plane presents itself.
The crowds at the Open Day
Naturally I wasn't quite as keen and asked to be dropped off at the Direct Factory Outlets to do a spot of shopping while waiting for him to be done. Little did I know, the day was going more interesting than shoes, clothes and accessories.
To cut the story short, Qantas (Aus carrier) was doing its part to support the breast cancer research fund raiser and had organized a mystery flight for the day. Alex booked us a spot on the flight and off we went. It was AUD 50 for 50 minutes in the air with refreshments and all. I reckon it was a pretty good deal with the plus of it being for a good cause.
Our flight tickets. It actually says Mystery Flight!
The plane chartered for this fund raiser was a Qantas Dash 8. It was all done up in pink to commemorate the breast cancer campaign.
The plane only ascended to a max of 10000 feet and that gave us a great view of the landscape. We flew over 5 towns outside of Canberra, them being Yass, Cowra, Cootamundra, Young and Wagga Wagga.
View from the plane: River flowing into a dam
More landscape
The Qantas logo from our window
We were given pretty nice refreshments for a 50 minute flight. In our box of goodies were a nice pink muffin, macadamia chocolate, some tomato crackers and olive dip. Coffee and tea included.
The pilot conducted the flight without the aid of the usual navigation systems. We believe the old school method of maps were used hence the flight path was a really different ones, giving us some really good views of places we otherwise wouldn't normally see from air. This also gave us great views of Canberra as we landed. We flew over Belconnon, then the city followed by Woden, Tuggeranong and Queanbeyan.
Canberra
At our seats
All in all it was a good day. Good fun, a nice change from the repetition of weekly activities.
cheryl
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