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I had my first bus ride - apart from the Transfer Bus of Despair - in February, riding a bus to a B738 at the freight terminal.

Yeah, I spotted the smiley. Still, some might have thought it a possibility. I don't expect much of BA but one thing seems to hold true: they look after their elites. As a WP in Y I'd get the old little perk and once a fairly hefty upgrade LHR-JNB for the two of us. Best benefit ever was that...

No, I've done something like this before. I swapped places with my travelling companion and took her Y seat IST-LHR on a BA A321 or something while she rode my J. I was doing a DONE4 and let's face it not missing out on much on a regional flight; the J seats are basically Y rows with the middle...

This bloke struck me as someone pretty savvy and I'll bet he checked via text after the doors closed that there wasn't a spare seat beside her in Y.

She's spending a week longer in the area. I'm just going for the weekend, so I'll have the flight back on my ownsome. I get the SC for the leg and that's a hefty whack. And seriously, while it's pleasant to be flying a long leg in J, after a while it gets tedious. There's only so much bubbly...

Yes, why upgrade two unrelated pax when you could upgrade a couple? A couple of times I've been travelling with my wife (once on AY, actually, KIX-HEL) as a WP and we both got upgraded. Actually, the best performance I've seen was when travelling - I think it was the old QF108 on the JFK-LAX...

That sounds good. I've previously travelled with AY on a Business Light ticket that didn't allow seat selection. After boarding I asked if I could swap to a window seat out of the (many) vacant and they had no problem with this. I'd have to pick my moment when they weren't super busy, though...

I've known her for about twenty years and she's a good friend. Both our trips are self-funded. This isn't a business convention we're talking about, just an annual get together of an online community.

I'm travelling next month to Helsinki: Sydney to Singapore on Finnair/Qantas, and Singapore to Helsinki on Finnair. Both legs J. I'm travelling to a convention in Finland, and I've found that a friend is travelling from Melbourne and will be on the same plane into Helsinki, no OW status to...

The Qantas website is all but useless for good trip planning. I was flying into Helsinki, I wanted to fly Finnair in their wonderful spacious no-recline business seat, and the obvious routing for me is Canberra-Sydney-Asia-Helsinki. And back. Last time I flew out of Bangkok and that was fine...

In June 2023 I took a trip to Edinburgh via Helsinki. A fairly complex itinerary involving QF Y and AY J and bottles of milk. Journey to the Land of Flying Barges That got me most of the way to SG from my LTS status and in October I finished the journey with a trip to Waiheke that didn't go...

A return to international flying for me. Apart from a few masked flights to Queensland for family events, my last international flight was CBR-SYD-WLG return in February 2020 just before everything closed down. Another Wellington journey in January this year, of which I have no memory at all...

I like the broccoli theme.

Looking at the first conversation, this pass is now taken.

As per the headline. With my recent elevation to the middling heights of SG I have no need for the last all-the-bubbles-you-can-quaff pass in my portfolio. First in, best dressed!

Thanks all, yes, the 310 figure is just the Qantas legs. Another 240 on the Finnair.

I've got two trips booked for my next membership year: 1. Canberra to Wellington return in Y 2. Sydney to Helsinki to Melbourne in J on QF and AY These will earn me 70 and 480 SC respectively, putting me within easy requal reach of retaining SG with an Adelaide trip later in the year. Little...

New Zealand with the missus in early Feb. A week of meditation and philosophy near Wellington. April is my (solo) big trip this year. I enjoyed the trip to Falkirk via Helsinki last June so much I'm doing much the same in June. The convention is being held near Helsinki and it's J all the way...

I'm flying to and from Helsinki next year, booked on the Finnair app (I'm returning to a different Oz city and the webpage couldn't handle that, apparently). Flights to and from SIN (one on a Finnair wetlease) have QF numbers and flights SIN-HEL-SIN are AY. How can I swap those same flights to...

My dear wife works one day a week at one of the new offices at the old RAAF Base Fairbairn and I'm her chauffeur for the morning. It's not as if I mind hanging around airports. I look at any interesting birds at the RAAF hangar and I check out the more humdrum stuff on the other side. Spotted...