G'day Oprah! Well, maybe not quite yet.

Some 300 of Oprah Winfrey's most devoted audience members arrived in Sydney, Australia on Tuesday morning for day one of Oprah's Ultimate Australian Adventure giveaway, but there were two people noticably missing from the planes -- Oprah herself, and actor John Travolta who was supposed to pilot one of the planes.

Oprah is making the trip separately by private jet and is expected to land Down Under either later Tuesday or Wednesday.

As for Travolta, according to the heraldsun.com, he pulled out of captaining the jet because of the birth of his new son, Benjamin, on November 23.

In any event, the audience arrived in two waves: the first of two Qantas 747s -- which departed from Los Angeles -- arrived at Sydney's international airport at 8:49am Aussie time and the second about an hour later.

The audience  -- composed of mainly Americans, some C