Eventually I started to watch some more TV episodes as breakfast started. By now I was a good 10 or 12 cups of coffee down, time for some food. I figured if I resynced my body to local time I could fool it into avoiding jetlag. Hopefully. So I kept it pretty light for breakfast with just fruit and toast, o and more coffee of course, so unfortunately unable to comment on the hot breakfast. The toast was ok though. Again service was a bit haphazard. I was really starting to begin to think that it was just the crew member working my section.
My Breakfast, Coffee & Fruit... boring I know by
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Almost to LAX by
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Eventually we were about 40 minutes out and the captain came on with his pre top of descent talk. It was good to know that we would shortly be on the ground. If things were going to go well, it meant that we would be coming in from the west, and the captain confirmed this. He also advised of sunny conditions. This meant an In n Out run for some spotting and that meant an afternoon of fun & frivolity!
Starting our Descent towards LA by
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Almost to LA by
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Seeing the Clouds Dissapear... good sign by
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Coming in over Islands by
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As we descended we came in over orange county and Disneyland/Knotts Berry Farm before turning onto the approach from the west. We flew right infront of the In n Out and I was snapping madly out the window as soon as we hit the taxi ways with heaps of good spotting going on out the window. We pulled alongside our gate at Terminal 2 and then we shut down… in the middle of the taxi way. Ah crap… a Tow IN gate. Even though we were early, this obviously just ended that little bit of an early arrival as we had to wait for the tractor to tow us in. O well.
Pretty Sure thats Orange County Airport by
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More LA Sprawl by
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Distance to LA - 25 Miles... o yeah! by
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Lots of Houses by
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Over the LA Canals by
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Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum by
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More Qantas A380s than ive ever seen at home by
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Pretty soon we were attached to the gate, and then soon enough we were deplaning and heading to LAX immigration, right behind a plane load of british tourists. God damn, this did not look good.
Skyteam Liveried Air France by
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Virgin Atlantic by
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My Ride from Auckland - Air New Zealand - 777-300ER by
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