Been in and out of that airport about 8 visits per year for last 10 years. Everything always worked perfectly.
First time ever was in1969, some 56 years ago, when I arrived on a QANTAS charter flight to start my compulsory military service in Sth. Vn. The airport was of course very different then.
I recall the QANTAS flight landing and the all male flight stewards, all looking like they were about to die, standing by at every exit door to get the doors open as fast as possible and get all the arriving soldier passengers off the aircraft as quickly as possible and the get the returning soldiers, all in a line at the bottom of the stairs onto the aircraft as quickly as possible.
We watched as we eating our food provided in paper bags, as soon as the last returning soldier went on board the aircraft doors were very quickly closed, stairs pulled away quickly and aircraft moved off.
I returned to Australia via Darwin on an Australian Air Force C130 transport.
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