Masterton flight review
Having recently done the Auckland (AKL) – Masterton (MRO) flight I can now report first hand on the ambience and experience of flying into Masterton;
1 Door to door service.
The plane pulls up at the arrivals lounge. It’s a 10m (that’s metre, not minute) walk into the building, another 5m to the exit door on the other side, and another 5m to your car. That’s what I call integrated public transport! No 10 minute walk just to get out of the terminal.
2 By the time you’ve left the arrivals lounge, walked to the car, started it to warm up the inside (!), and wandered back to the arrivals lounge, your luggage is ready for you to collect in it’s own little room.
- Yes, how many of us walk off a plane, straight to the car park, start the car to warm it up, and then go back to collect our luggage. Ah – it’s times like these that life in NZ just throws you one of those OMG curve balls. In the UK even at our rural town supermarket, I’d lock the car after loading the shopping whilst I took the trolley back to the trolley park 10m away.
3 It’s a hop, skip and a jump, and you’re flying.
Seriously – it’s like long jump without the run up. The plane turns onto the runway, they rev the engines, it feels like you move forwards a skip, and the plane just jumps into the sky.
4 Scared of flying?
Then sitting in seat 1F, you can hold the pilots’ hand if you’re nervous. Sitting in 2A? hold the hand of the person in 2F – all the way across the aisle.
5 One draw back – there’s no trolley service
- so no coffee/tea, banana chips or immitation crisps. Still no getting stuck the wrong side of the trolley when you really need the toilet and they refuse to get out of your way.
6 The best bit though
- it’s a 15 minute drive to the airport to be there 20 minutes before the flight leaves for it’s 75 minute journey to Auckland. Compared with a 120 minute drive down to Wellington, 10 minutes to park up and work your way back to the departures terminal to ensure you’re checked in 30 minutes before the flight.
So if I go via Masterton I can be getting in a taxi at Auckland airport to head into the city, before I’d even got to Wellington airport!! Plus I save on petrol and parking.
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