Made any travel mistakes lately?

[SeatBackForward]

wearing a va gold bag tag to the qantas in person checkin and getting an evil stare

Whereas if you walked up with a QF Gold bag tag, they'd have not even noticed..

 

[fly2earth]

Whereas if you walked up with a QF Gold bag tag, they'd have not even noticed..

the VA gold bag tags doesnt look that great to be honest looks like a bag tag you would wear on a school field trip

 

[Happy Dude]

Whereas if you walked up with a QF Gold bag tag, they'd have not even noticed..

....but still give the evil stare anyway.

 

[fly2earth]

....but still give the evil stare anyway.

Walks up with booking using OneWorld Sapphire FF number issued by Qatar and trying to use the Qantas F lounge

 

[drron]

I hope I haven't but just booked 2 rewards flights on JAL using QF points.

 

[ausfox]

When we visit each time Singapore we like to checkout all the recent MRT additions. One line crosses the centre of the island so we were going to do a bit of sightseeing. Blunder, totally underground.

 

[fly2earth]

When we visit each time Singapore we like to checkout all the recent MRT additions. One line crosses the centre of the island so we were going to do a bit of sightseeing. Blunder, totally underground.

I stumbled upon the Woodland (red) line and it was a gem (didn't know there were countryside in singapore).Was thinking it was new but actually turned out it was old. The only new route I can think of is the orange circle line but it just connects existing stations from different lines. And the brown Thomson line but seems very low key.

Fun fact all singapore Housing Building Complexes looks the same (aka nothing to see here). Travel around Singapore for one day and you'll feel youve seen all the HBC's since they all look the same

 

[fly2earth]

Having platinum status with a low cost carrier that is not Qantas and finding that I have practically no use for it except for same day fly ahead flights and can't use the four free vouchers to upgrade to J without first buying flex fare which is more expensive than outright flying J (since I am fed up with the Cole-slaw in the business class and the lounges) whereas I already have Skyteam Elite+ and Star Alliance gold. then spending time at the QF Gold lounge making ham toasties and lemon bitters (nothing much really but sure beats non-stop Coleslaw and never changing spaghetti alternative at the low cost carrier). Oh it does give me Hilton Diamond but I never stay at a Hilton since it's overpriced and overrated anyways rather be staying at Pullman, or even Marriott chains as a lowly gold even though they don't upgrade me for cough and I still end up with a better room

 

[tassie6]

I don’t like it, but sometimes an unprotected booking is a necessary evil

The plan this morning, JQ700 up from HBA at 0800 to MEL, day use airport hotel for little fellas nap before rewards PE booking on SQ208 this evening to SIN, then on to CDG. 8 hours planned in MEL with the JQ departure having a great on time record, I accepted the odds and had what I thought was plenty of time.

But…an absolute shemozzle in Hobart this morning due to Fog that just. would. not. clear, until after midday, that is quite rare. People in the city messaging me blue skies, but at HBA you couldn’t see the trees across the runway for hour after hour. Only the first flights of the day got away, as they had been there for the night.

Our bird coming in left two hours late waiting for the weather, held for an hour then diverted to LST, I was hoping for a quick sip and take off to get back down my way as one plane managed to sneak in and land shortly after the diversion. But then the next three had at least one go each and all went to LST. One JQ flight from Brisbane was 5hrs in the air when they landed at LST.

Well, how do I get out of this mess? Drive to Launceston and get another flight from there? Too late at this point . Our bird kept saying it was going to leave launnie and never did. The better half went out to the desk, they called launnie and said the plane is going to leave soon without any passengers as they are getting bussed to Hobart? Seems rather silly if it’s going to fly there anyway.

I just couldn’t trust this was going to happen as it had been on the ground at LST for maybe 2 hours and at this point weather was 100% ok. We managed to get them to give our bags back (actually great service from JQ on this, they retagged our bags out the back and dealt with Rex in a handover) and when the daily Rex flight was in the air from MEL I booked us three seats on that (for only about $140 a head last minute).

So we made it to SQ check in with only an hour to spare, instead of 8…

The original JQ flight did end up only thirty minutes behind us in the end, but I was more than happy with my choice when the wheels went up in Hobart.

Quite a stressful start to a Holiday, exacerbated by being stuck in HBA from 0630 to 1400, with no flights leaving and people everywhere, just trying to get out of there. Plans for a well rested toddler out the window..

Not a small mercy though, as I type this from SQ208, the little fella crashed at takeoff and hasn’t made a peep since. Singapore sling or two to decompress are underway..