Ah yes- EastWest Airlines- that brings back some memories for me...
Circa late 1980s, my first flight in a 'big' plane- (bigger than a C172 anyway!) was in a EWA Fokker Friendship from Sydney to Grafton, mid-January and the temp on departing sydney was over 40 degrees....
The flight (which was continuing on to Maroochydore) was delayed for over an hour whilst waiting for the temp to cool, as I was told.... I stood looking out the windows of the old ground-floor terminal at KSA wondering what was going on.....
Finally underway, my memories are of the deafening noise from the engines, and the peanuts in a sachet..... and of the different atmosphere of arriving at KSA for departure after being driven through big city suburbs, compared to being met by relatives at GFN, bumping over the cattle grid in their elderly HQ Holden on the way out of the airfield!
Times have changed, eh? Nowadays, folks flying to GFN travel in the much more modern SF340, and those going to Maroochydore can fly direct!