Some of you are asked me how the hell you flight from Madrid to Brisbane. Well, it takes around 30 hours. The schedule will be something like that for this time:
- Madrid-Frankfurt: 02h 40min
- Waiting in Frankfurt: 02h 50min
- Frankfurt-Singapore: 12h 05min
- Waiting in Singapore: 05h 20min
- Singapore-Brisbane: 07h 25min
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Total: 30h 20min
I haven't told before but I'm a student of Aerospace Engineering then this post will be a bit geek :P. Let's talk about the main Airline to flight to Australia, because most of other companies flights are also operated by Qantas.
Qantas is the most famous Australian Airline, it's the acronym of Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Serivces. Nowadays is the most easy way to reach Australia, as it's the only Australian company that reach Europe, as far as I know (Cathay Pacific is from Hong Kong :P)
This airline is and one of the most safe airline in the world. They have never lost a jet airplane in the whole story of the company. The accidents that they have had in the last first years of the companies where with alternative engines, when aircrafts have four engines, because always there was one or two that used to burn and spoil in the long way to Australia, :P. The only serious incident in the last years was a Boeing 747 who runs off the Bangkok Airport runway for 220 meters. And they don't lost the aircraft because it's said that they spent 100 million AUD (arround 51 million €) to recover and repair it.
Qantas 747 crashed in Bangkok (Check the slide over the tree...it's a bit WTF)
Until this last months...Qantas have had some serious incidents, including 5 emergency landings with this two remarkable ones:
-July 25th. A Oxygen Cylinder exploded, when the aircraft was over the South China Sea, making a garage door next to the wing root. The aircraft made an emergency landing in Manila (Philippines) with all the 350 passengers safe.
The Captain checking the hole (some passangers lost the Australian souvenirs)
-October 7th. An Airbus 330-300 Flight computer pull down the aircraft 300 feet (91meters) with 30 people injured (You should wear the the seat belt all the time that you are sat down). The first report said that a guy in business class where using a wireless mouse, right over all the control computers, and that was the cause of the mistake of the automatic pilot. I hope they will let me use my laptop during the flight :P not the get complete bored.
Joining this idea with the fact that the first flight is with Spanair, I don't know why but I feel a bit more afraid than other times that I'm flying. Maybe the reason is that the other flights that I use to take are right after crazy parties, then I'm so sleepy or 'affected' by the party, that I cannot feel any fear :P.
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You could take Emirates from MAD-DXB, then DXB-BNE. The only drawback is the layover for 10 hours in DXB. It's only one stop, though. Total time MAD-BNE would be 31 hours, 15 minutes. Not too bad with only one stop, but it's still over 30 hours. The only reason it's so long is the layover. 1 stop is much less of a headache than 2.
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