Day 41 - Fri 10 Jul: Dubai to Sydney
We boarded a little late for our flight to Sydney and then sat in the plane for over three hours while the engineers tried to resolve a "minor issue". The captain had to shut the whole plane down twice to do that. It is not a good thing to sit in a plane without aircon in Dubai, where it is 46deg in the shade!! Eventually the problem was fixed; well that's what they told us, and announced that we were taking off. However, after pulling back from the gate they discovered a new problem so back to the parking bay. Whilst the “ repairs ” didn ’ t take that long, waiting for the engineers to sign-off on the fix and then having to re-join the queue for take-off took forever. The problem with delays on the ground on these really long flights (14 hours) is that you are cooped up in the plane even longer!! Everyone was very well behaved, even the kids, and we eventually got underway over three hours behind schedule. The flight continued without further ...