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Flight Diary: Flying on Qantas Airbus A330 Business Class (Perth – Sydney)

Last year, in August 2023 we made the big move from Perth, Australia to Houston, USA.

It was a long journey hopping across multiple time zones and taking three medium-to-long haul flights to get to the literal opposite side of the world.

Around 21 hours of flight time and 5.5 hours of airport layovers.

In a previous blog post, I shared my flight experience in United Airline’s Polaris business class from Sydney to Las Angeles.

Today, I want to dive into our bittersweet moment of leaving our hometown of Perth, albeit temporarily, to have a once in a lifetime experience of living and working in another country.

We were fortunate to be flying in business class on my husband’s company dime for the all segments of our journey to the USA.

We flew in the Qantas Airbus A330 business class cabin for our 4 hour flight from Perth to Sydney.

So lets dive into how it went.

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Lounge Review: Inside Air New Zealand International Lounge, Sydney

Air new zealand international lounge entrance

There are two Star Alliance business class lounges at Sydney Airport—Air New Zealand International Lounge and Singapore Airline SilverKris Lounge.

Last year, when we flew United Polaris business class from Sydney to Las Angeles for our move to the USA, we got the chance to check out both business class lounges.

Today, I want to talk about our experience and first impressions of the Air New Zealand International Lounge.

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Lounge Review: Inside Singapore Airlines SilverKris Lounge, Sydney

There are two Star Alliance business class lounges at Sydney Airport—Air New Zealand International Lounge and Singapore Airline SilverKris Lounge.

When we flew United Polaris business class from Sydney to Las Angeles for our move to the USA, we got the chance to check out both lounges.

Today, I want to talk about our experience and first impressions of the Singapore Airline SilverKris Lounge

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Flight Diary: Flying on United Airlines Boeing 787 Polaris Business Class (Sydney – Los Angeles)

*United Airline Polaris Business Class Cabin*

A year ago in August 2023, we made the big move from Perth, Australia to Houston, USA.

It was quite the journey of taking three medium to long flights and crossing multiple time zones to get to the literal opposite side of the world.

Around 21 hours of flight time and 5.5 hours of airport layovers.

We were leaving cold and rainy wintery Perth and landing in hot and humid Texas. Apparently it was Houston’s “worse summer”. I couldn’t have agreed more, with 38 to 42 degrees celcius temperatures for a couple of months.

We were lucky to fly in business class for the all segments of the flight.

The United Airline Polaris Business class was the international segment and the longest of the three flights. Naturally that was also the flight that had the most to experience and share.

So lets dive into how it went.

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Lounge Review: Inside Qantas Domestic Business Lounge, Perth

In Australia, Qantas being the main national carrier, has one of the most extensive airport lounge networks in Australia. This post is a bit different to my normal photography writing and content I normally share on here. This experiential review of the Qantas Domestic Business Lounge in Perth falls more in the travel and travel experiences wheelhouse. I will probably start to share more of these type of posts now that the travelling has opened up more. This is by no means a comprehensive lounge review as there are plenty of travel hack and lounge blogs out there whose primary purpose is on that topic. My approach like most of my reviews are based around my thoughts, experiences and sharing my photography along the way.

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