I’ve just returned from a 3 day business trip to some country/outback towns. We went out to do some training for our regional staff. In Australia there are large distances between towns once you get out of Sydney - people think nothing of driving for 200km or more to the next town. Some of the […]
It won’t come as any surprise to hear that I have missed a connecting flight or two (as well as my near misses, including a memorable sprint across Bangkok airport). Thankfully all of those occasions were in the days before I had children.I was a young, fairly naive traveller the first time it happened. I […]
I’ve taken two trips to regional cities in the past fortnight - one to Albury and the other to Tamworth. Both flights were with QantasLink which is a subsidiary of Qantas that flies to the smaller cities around the country.Both flights were on Dash-8 aircraft. These aircraft are propellor planes, known as turboprops. The […]