My phone’s lock screen looks different now (the green dot is Brisbane).
It’s Thursday here in Brisbane, in Queensland, Australia.
The traveler made his two connections but his checked luggage did not.
The connection in Auckland was trouble, because we left San Francisco 90 minutes late. I had to make a mad dash for the gate in Auckland to make the final connection to Brisbane.
Ready to depart from Seattle-Tacoma airport’s Terminal A. At the top right of the picture is the new skybridge for international arrivals.Here’s the trouble, at San Francisco airport. The check-in desk is getting swamped, because a large number of passengers with bar-coded boarding passes, had to have their documents & New Zealand visas checked one more time (my boarding pass did not have ‘TRAVEL READY’ printed on it). The computer system failed, and processing one passenger would take 5 minutes. I showed the agent my NZ visa on my phone, and the system could not pick it up. United Airlines— and New Zealand— SURELY this is not the first time you fly passengers from SFO to New Zealand. Why has this not been fixed?Sunrise over the south Pacific Ocean, from 38,000 feet up.Here’s beautiful and spectacular New Zealand, on our final approach into Auckland International airport on the North Island.Auckland international airport. I know I’m late, but I still wanted to snap this picture of the Boeing 777-200 that had flown us across the Pacific Ocean for 13 hours.The late arrival into Auckland international airport made me run all the way to the other side of the international terminal at Auckland airport: a good 1/2 mile.The final leg of the trip from Auckland to Brisbane. We are still crossing time zones in the western direction, but now gaining two hours back. So the Seattle +19 hours at Auckland became Seattle +17 hours in Brisbane.Here’s New Zealand Air’s Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner bird that left Auckland, at the gate at Brisbane.The Airport Line stops at Brisbane International airport’s domestic terminal and at the international terminal. I took the train to Park Road Station south of downtown Brisbane to get to the apartment that I will stay in (next to the one my brother and his family had rented).
