YVR-MEL
Flight: AC37
Aircraft: 787-9 (C-FGEI)
Seat: 2A (J)
Departed: YVR 05/09/2018 22:50 (on time) PDT
Arrived: MEL 07/09/2018 07:50 (10 mins early) AEST
Duration: 16h
This flight was booked as a Star Alliance redemption using 117,000 KrisFlyer miles (transferred from Velocity). It cost me CA$67.50 in fees, which at the time was AU$69.
The flight started well, and dinner was promptly served after take off. I chose the beef, garlic bread, an Italian red wine, and then cheesecake.
I watched Solo, then Royal Tenenbaums on the very decent IFE. There was no turndown service offered/seen, although a mattress pad and blanket were at the seat when boarding (along with pillow, slippers, bottle of water, and amenity kit). I tried to sleep, although I felt my attempts weren't that successful, but time seemed to go quickly, so maybe I did drift off for awhile. I unmade my bed with about 4.5 hours left and watched Tully, and requested a (not very good) hot egg sandwich snack from the "light bites" menu.
By this time, the toilet was pretty disgusting, and almost made me gag. Yuk.
Breakfast was served: Fruit, yoghurt (pot), croissant, omelette with sausage. Coffee.
Watched a couple of episodes of Portlandia. As we were approaching Melbourne, we flew over some mountains topped with snow (maybe Alpine National Park?):
Quick disembarkation on arrival at Melbourne, but a long long wait for baggage to start appearing on the carousel. My bags were some of the first out however!
Queue for customs was crazy, but I asked at the "crew" line if there was an express pass lane (nothing was signposted as far as I could tell) and they took my pass and sent me down that line - very happy
!