[Dave Noble]

Originally Posted by justinbrett

Unfortunately Darwin airport basically closes down from about 5pm to 10pm as there are no flights. The last flight just departed Darwin at 1710 (to Mumbai) and the next one isn't until 0130 to Sydney. Mine is shortly after at 0155.

But thanks for the info, I'll head down there about 10pm and check in.

ps. What's a hoo man?

I didn't realise that Darwin shuts down early in the day

Dave

[justinbrett]

Originally Posted by Dave Noble

I didn't realise that Darwin shuts down early in the day

Dave

Yeah, there's about three "Waves" of flights out of Darwin

There's 0500 - 0630, which is the flight to Cairns and the two Qantaslink 717s to Alice and Gove. QF82 to Adelaide is also in this window (from Singapore)

Then there's 1130 - 1400ish, which are the daytime flights to Adelaide, Brisbane Alice Springs and Perth. Can extend to include QF81 and QF123, international flights to Singapore and Mumbai.

Then there's 0000 - 0200 which are the Red-eye services (Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney).

Outside of these times the terminal is basically closed.

[jakeseven7]

Bring on Qantas online check in - would have solved your problem!

Mid year the word is!

[Lindsay Wilson]

Originally Posted by justinbrett

ps. What's a hoo man?

Dave's English witticism (or is it attempt at humour :roll: ) for a "human" (i.e. not checking in at the QuickCheck machine because they generally don't allocate exit rows).

[serfty]

Originally Posted by jakeseven7

Bring on Qantas online check in - would have solved your problem!

Mid year the word is!

Given that exit row BP's cannot be obtained without the assistance of a "hooman" agent of the airline, methink's that any online check in process would not allow access to exit row seating.

[Dave Noble]

Originally Posted by serfty

Given that exit row BP's cannot be obtained without the assistance of a "hooman" agent of the airline, methink's that any online check in process would not allow access to exit row seating.

Indeed. Online and Self service checkin without hooman intervention is unlikely to lead to a BP with a nice exit seat

Dave

[jakeseven7]

Originally Posted by Dave Noble

Indeed. Online and Self service checkin without hooman intervention is unlikely to lead to a BP with a nice exit seat

Dave

I think you misread the original question, he was asking about being allocated a window seat not exit row which I was responding to.

Online check in will enable pax to allocate themselves these seats much more easily hours before most ppl rock up @ the airport (will be interesting to see how it is managed though as I would imagine alot of people will try and snap up the forward window/aisles alot earlier - will QF hold back seats for high status FF?)


But yes obviously you are correct about the exit row.

[Dave Noble]

Originally Posted by jakeseven7

But yes obviously you are correct about the exit row.

Which is the only seats that I am interested in when travelling in economy class :)

Beyond getting that, I have no interest in how the other seats are allocated :)

Dave

[justinbrett]

Well here's an update just in case you guys wanted to know how it turned out.

I checked in at the airport just after 11pm - I asked for an exit row window and she gave it to me.

As it turned out the flight was quite empty (probably 1/3 full) and I was in 13F - nobody was assigned 13D or 13E.

So it worked out very nicely. Turns out I didn't really need the exit row as I spent most of it horizontal spread out over three seats fast asleep.

Also it was a very quiet flight, no screaming children. Probably the perfect red-eye flight.