Just wanted to add my 2 cents worth to earlier positive comments about Skywest and to Pe_ta who will be passing through Hedland soon. Over the years we have had Ansett, Qantas, Garuda, Merpati (when they turned up) but with doubt, Skywest is the best of that bunch. Like other contributors to this forum, I also like to keep a eye out for the plane every Saturday, because I don't want it to stop. We use to have a AQIS (quarantine) officer come out and address the passengers before they flew out with practical examples of what was allowed back in and examples of what had been confiscated. He did it off his own back, but it was a great little information service. I don't think the new officer has picked up on that yet! Your flight path passes directly over the Rowley Shoals and look out for the mountains on Lombok protruding through the cloud. You need to be sitting on the right hand side for that.
8 weeks to go for us. Just hope a cyclone doesn't muck things up