The Next Big Walk begins

A slightly hectic morning, but we were at the airport around 12:40. Flights were QF1 to Singapore, (have not flown on QF1 for decades), about 75 minutes change-over and then AF257 (a Qantas code-share) to Charles de Gaulle in Paris - CDG to the in-crowd - landing around 7am on Saturday, and we catch a train from the airport around 8:50am.

QF1 was an A380, which was good, but it was leaving 45 mins late…”administrative issues”. In practice, it left nearly 75 mins late. That delay was to be about an hour, but then we sat on the tarmac and waited. Later we were told Air Services Australia were understaffed so they stopped air coverage of parts of offshore /southern Oz, so Qantas had to replan the route. The flight caught up some time and was just 50 mins late in landing, so only 25 mins to AF departure…but we were told luggage would not make it.

One choice was staying on same plane and going to London, then getting to Paris, and another was staying overnight in Singapore. Because of the Emirates problems (Dubai was recently flooded, all flights in and out had been cancelled for a day, and everyone was scrambling to fill the backlog) there were no seats to Paris for two days. So we caught AF to France…

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