Qantas Business Class to Queenstown

At around T-50, we headed out thru the construction to find Gate 63 and our flight to Queenstown.

Qantas 121
Sydney SYD - Queenstown ZQN
737-800
9:30a-2:30p
December 25, 2015
Lunch
Departed 12/12
Seats 1AC 

Dated and reasonable comfortable cabin, although I wouldn't want to fly a lot on this plane. I chose the bulkhead based on recommendation from the QF forum and it was fine. Any one taller than 6' would probably would have an issue.

One of our FAs decked out for Christmas.

PDB in real glass.

Today's menu.

More of the Business Cabin.

After take-off, drinks and a tasty pretzel/Brazil nut mix.

While Mrs. SFO declined lunch, of course I did not... mostly for the photo op. OK, where is the tray liner? Yeah, I'm sure that this reusable tray is clean.  

I hope this tray is clean. OMG, can we use any bigger utensils. They filled half of the tray.

For my main, I went with the Prawn and Soba noodle salad which was really good, assuming I didn't contract a disease from my utensils resting on the tray.

Yes, barefoot to the lav is always a brilliant idea.

And ice cream for dessert.

Beginning our descent to Queenstown and our first glimpses of beautiful New Zealand.

No jet bridges at ZQN so we disembarked by stairs and headed for the terminal trying to beat pax from the MEL-ZQN NZ flight.

Fortunately, the international arrivals areas is void of direction signs and dozens of NZ pax were standing around cluelessly as we walked thru the strangely located duty-free shop on our way to customs. We were thru in no time but and to wait 15 minutes for bags to be delivered as apparently there is only one set of ground crew today. And amazingly, Mrs. SFO's bag popped out on the carousel, with a complete new baggage tag from the one attached in DEN.