Here is the err…..not so huge terminal, with it’s whole 2 gates. The second pic shows the arrivals hall, this is literally all it consists of! And finally is a pic of our plane. It was weird, exiting the plane and being able to see the terminal entrance from the aircraft door 😎

Thanks for the kind comments so far Bmused, RIPConcorde, Ren and Boeingforairbus.

RIPConcorde: Yes the runway in view is the one they use, and the huge back track is the reason why all aircraft try and slam their brakes to exit on the left hand high speed about halfway down. It’s ok in the Fokker 50, but a bit rough in the 767! And yes it was breathtaking, as was staying in a mountain lodge about 5000ft up the mountain, then waking up in the morning in the clouds 🙂

Sabah is the home to SE Asia’s tallest mountain. Mt Kinabalu, standing at around 14000ft shadows over the city and the surrounding rainforests. It’s the home to 1500 rare species of Orchid (type of flowering plant) and many other animals and plants, that only occur in Borneo. It’s very lucky that you’ll ever get to see it properly, as atleast the top half is always covered in cloud. However, looked like I was at the right place at the right time! 😀

A view of the airport after departure.

Here is a very rushed pic of this rare aircraft. Pocchh Airlines Il-62M, RA-86570. PArked up whilst on taxi to the runway.

And finally, is our plane after de-boarding. Just gonna have a lil rest, all this picture re-sizing is really tedious, especially when you’ve got jet lag! There’s no pics from the Australian Airlines flight as it was all the way in the dark. However, a few things about the flight anyway……..as with the other flights, everything was on schedule, and we made the way to our empty departure lounge. There were so few people for our plane, I managed to count them all. All 39 of them, on a 767! I had about 10 rows to myself, 70 odd seats! As we boarded, dance/chillout music was played, adding to a really good atmosphere. One thing I was surprised to see (and this was the case with the homeward flight aswell) was that there were many more male flight attendants than female. Around 7 or 8 males, and only 2 females. The flight was only an hour and a half, and we descended into Kota Kinabalu airport with Brunei on our right hand side. Made a fairly hard touch down, so that we could exit the runway on the high-speed about half way down, to avoid having to back-track. On the way to the terminal, saw amongst several Malaysia Airlines planes, the brand new A320 of Royal Brunei Airlines.

First is full flaps just coming down over the shipping docks, next is on short finals with a couple of SIA747’s in the background.