Friday 15 February 2013

Beating the International Dateline

There should have been no 15 February for us with our departure from Santiago scheduled for 11.20pm on the 14th and our scheduled arrival the next morning in Sydney on the 16th at 7.45am but events conspired to give us the 15th after all.

Despite everyone being on board ahead of the scheduled departure time, the plane remained at the gate with all of us on board and with no explanation for the delay for a further hour and forty minutes. Our eventual departure at 12.50am on the 15th means we cheated the dateline (in a manner of speaking).

It also meant we had a full dinner served to us on the flight at around 2am with two consecutive breakfasts (before and after a transit stop in Auckland) to follow. The joys of international travel.

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