My name is Ken Pascoe and I’m the fortunate guy who was one of the Captain’s for V Australia’s first Boeing 777-300ER delivery flight from Seattle to Los Angeles and then the big one, Los Angeles to Sydney. This is Part Seven of the epic trip. Where has the Day Gone? After 12 hours of [...]

Seattle Fairmont Olympic Hotel – (almost) The end of a Long Day. Is it ever. Despite that, of course it’s 12:00 lunchtime in Geelong, so I’m exhausted but not ready (or able) to sleep. It’s 5pm here in Seattle and I’m about to head out for some fresh air and a bite to eat before [...]

Greetings from LAX – Part Five of the V Australia delivery flight Blog. Sitting in a barely air-conditioned Alaskan Airlines terminal area, the immediate space is one of those designs where the combination of layout and surface causes PA’s, loud noises, and for the most part general conversation to bounce around and around until you [...]

Greetings from Auckland Airport for Part Four of the V Australia first aircraft delivery blog. My cunning plan to keep logging onto the Air NZ web site right up until departure and move my seat allocation around to ensure I would have an empty seat next to me from Sydney to Auckland worked extremely well [...]

Part Three of the V Australia first Boeing 777 Delivery Flight Saga comes from the new V Australia office at Sydney Airport. Having been told it was “near the Etihad office” I figured we’d be the small office no-one knew of yet, near the large and lavish Etihad Airline office space. Nothing could be further [...]

Part Two comes from The Lounge at Melbourne airport. And I didn’t even need a tie, just a $199 salary-sacrificed deduction for the year. Since the bus dropped me here at 5:05am and I was checked in and ready to go at 5:10 for a 7:00 am flight – brekky, the paper and some work [...]

My name is Ken Pascoe and I’m the fortunate guy who will be one of the Delivery Captain’s for V Australia’s first Boeing 777-300ER next week from Seattle to Los Angeles and then the big one, LAX  to Sydney. I’ve decided to blog the trip, mostly for the benefit of the other hard working deserving [...]