Come Fly With Me

Well the bags are packed and checked in, were at the airport and now waiting to board.

It is a long flight QF9 fourteen hours and ten minutes. After a two hour and five minute layover in Dubai we will then will re-board QF9 for a further seven hours and a half hours to touching down in London around 1:40PM BST (British Summer Time) (around 10:40PM Melbourne)

If your interested in what time it is in London compared to Melbourne try this great little tool http://www.timebie.com/timezone/melbournelondon.php

QF9 part 2

How time flies
Well it is hard to believe it has been almost 2 years since we were in London and it will be great to be back there seeing everybody.  I also remember now, we were both certain to never do this journey again without stopping overnight in Dubai. However the pain we feel now won't last much longer we will be on solid ground. Once again the stopover idea will be long forgotten.

A final number of Qantas / Emirates comparisons.
E- most meals were served with rice, and while rice is very, very nice it is also messy in the confined eating area! We were served last a few times and they had run out of the mains. Most meals were a curry and quite spicy, however delicious.

Q- carbohydrates were made up of potatoes, macaroni, etc. Only one meal had rice. Meals were in no way as spicy, and were more English / Australian. In our opinion Qantas wins on meals.

Overall the pros and con's of each airline outweigh each other and if our next booking is between these two then it would come down to the price.

We are currently over Germany just south of Cologne according to the flight tracker with less than an hour to go. The landing at Dubai received a 4 out of 10 on "Katie's scientific scale" for landing here's hoping the London landing is better.

QF9 part 1

Well the first part of QF9 is over. We have landed in Dubai.

Both Katie and I got to sleep about six hours, we also landed a little before schedule.

I will compare this flight to the Emirates flights we took back in 2012.

The in flight entertainment system does not rate as well as the Emirates. The content is there but it is hard to search and filter what you are after.  The games are slow to load sometimes over a minute.

Qantas only provide one camera from the tail where emirates with the same plane provide tail, nose and directly pointing down cameras.

The snack bar was a little disappointing, it had small packets of Anzac biscuit balls, balsamic vinegar savoury biscotti, fresh pink lady apples, water and small assortment of canned drinks. We were expecting much more variety.

The toilet facilities were always clean, where with emirates there was always water splashed on the floor.

The cabin lighting could be much better. Emirates had a continually changing light and it was unnoticable but provided a sense of sunrise, daytime, sunset and night. Qantas on the other hand pretty much had white light, darkened cabin with a purple light and then white light.  I feel this does not help with jet lag and time zone accustomisation.