We arrived at Toowoomba Airport by Taxi 1 hour and 10 minutes early for a 2pm flight. The airport is near home so it took only 5 minutes to get there. Check-in went quickly and smoothly. Toowoomba Airport is small in the form of single room with a check-in facility. The runway is a low tonnage field running West to East. Compared to similar cities to Toowoomba, our airport is small and primitive. Roma (a town of 5000) has airport that is much bigger as a example.
20 minutes out the check-in staff announced that our flight had been delayed in Brisbane for an hour. Joy!
The Skytrans staff (out of their own personal supply) offered all the passengers tea and coffee. Very nice gesture by the ground staff. The "airport" has no food or drink facilities except a water bubbler. Poor primitive Toowoomba, has been taken for granted by local and state governments for decades. Hopefully the new Wagners private airport will have facilities more suited to a city of 150000+ people.
While we wait, we are entertained by free to air TV and 6 month old baby. Finally the long wait is over at 2:50 pm when our flight landed from Brisbane. Just 50 minutes late. Fortunately the car rental people at Sydney are fairly understanding on the phone. We are scheduled to fly now at 3:20pm.
Our flight took off at 3:15pm and the flight went well. We landed at 5:15pm and was bused to the terminal. No chair for Dad but the flight crew assisted.
Finally we arrived at Avis car rental and waited 30 minutes to find our car.
Our trip through Sydney went well, as our GPS made our trip simple. Lack of parking is interesting in Sydney, which caused the most issues.
We all had a chane to nurse young Lily. A sweet little girl, who was a delight to all.
After a couple hours we drove into the city to find hour hotel. Our GPS did a grand job to get us there with little issues.
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