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Out of sequence update. I scored an OpUp from Club World to First on my LHR-DXB leg. What are the chances of THAT on an award ticket. The upgrade gods are truly smiling because I’m having breakfast at the Sofitel Downtown Dubai while my upgraded Opera Suite is being prepared for early checkin...

Second Singapore Transit of the Trip We landed in Singapore on time. During the long taxi when my phone reconnected my heart sank when it pinged to say my bag was 467km away. Thankfully a moment later I appeared to have been reunited with it in Singapore. Clearly there’s a bit of latency with...

Flight: MH611 ETD: 9:05 ATD: 9:06 ETA: 10:15 ATA: 10:15 Cabin: Business Seat: 2A AC: 737-800 (9M-MLO) My airport transfer dropped me in front of a busy KLIA terminal 1 just on 7am. It wasn’t immediately evident where MH’s business class check in counters were. I wandered around the economy...

Pullman KLCC My taxi pulled up at the front of Pullman KLCC around 2pm. After a bit of a wait at the Accor priority check in line I was escorted up to level 4 to the Executive Lounge to check in as an Accor Diamond member. Honestly, more often than not I’d just prefer to be checked in then and...

Impressions of Kuala Lumpur Despite the fact that I’ve been to Kota Kinabalu a couple of times, as well as into the jungles of Sarawak to visit the incredible World Heritage listed caves in Mulu National Park, this trip is my first visit to peninsular Malaysia and to KL - other than to transit...

I’ve prebooked my 6am pickup back to the airport via Klook for RM138 in a ‘comfort’ SUV. At that hour of the morning I like the peace of mind of a pre-booked ride to the airport rather than chancing it with Grab or taxis.

Flight: MH614 ETD: 11:05 ATD: 11:40 ETA: 12:05 ATA: 12:45 Cabin: Business Seat: 2A AC: 737-800 (9M-MLQ) 9M-MLQ pulling into the gate after arriving from KUL. Some rain and distant lightning about. There isn’t really a great deal to report on this uneventful short hop from SIN-KUL. It’s a...

Transit in Singapore I used Agoda to book a room at the T1 Aerohotel for my overnight stay in Singapore. Initially I’d made a reservation at an off airport hotel to save $150 but in the end I decided that the cost and hassle of transport and clearing immigration wasn’t worth $150 to me. At the...

Again sitting in 5K gave me the distinct sense of lot of tables being set and food being delivered around me before I got any attention. Eventually my table was adorned with linen and cutlery and my starter of spanner crab, pork and green mango salad was brought over. I switched to the semillon...

The flight was called for boarding in the lounge at about 14:30. I headed directly below to gate 10 to see the usual QF boarding mess in progress. They’d already called up PE by that time - bear in mind the upper deck of an A380 (plus SG and above) is probably close to ⅓ or even ½ of the...

And so it begins Flight: QF1 ETD: 15:10 ATD: 15:30 ETA: 21:30 ATA: 21:30 Seat: 5K AC: VH-OQB I was a little disappointed not to get a phone call or email from the Qantas First host team the day before departure, until I remembered that when I booked this OWA the email address associated with...

In my two experiences, no immediate response. But issues were resolved within about a week. Once confirmed with an email, another time via a phone call from Hobart

I’m not seeing much sampling of Riesling despite it (arguably) being the variety most associated with the Clare Valley. Wines by KT is my new favourite Australian winery after stumbling across (and staggering out of) their tasting room on the Main Street of Auburn. The service there was...

Catering on this flight was crowd-pleasing cheese and crackers. Not particularly substantial but there aren’t all that many people who would object to this particular snack. I wasn’t paying enough attention to what was happening in row 3 to hear what the options were in J this afternoon...

Old school (2 lane) priority boarding was done effectively at gate 18. Though they pre-boarded a group of 40 or 50 Japanese school kids before clearly and emphatically calling up business and status pax. There must be something in Japanese DNA. Those kids zipped through the BP scanners in a...

Departure Day … sort of … Home is on the edge of a village on beautiful Bundjalung Country, a 45 minute meandering drive inland from Byron Bay. I woke to a cloudy but relatively mild Northern Rivers winter morning and peeled back the curtains to breathe in the beauty of the World-heritage...

Welcome @PlaneHopperPal. I wholeheartedly agree! I’ve said it before on this thread (or one similar) and I say it again: IMO QF are over engineering what should be a simple process. Limit the ridiculous amount of cabbin baggage people bring on board and ensure that the current priority boarding...

The tasting notes of the Queen Adelaide Moscato are hilarious!! I hope MNL isn't too painful for your departure experience. At least flying J you won't have to contend with too much chaos at the checkin counters.

Great tip! Thanks astrosly for the pointer and Matt for raising the issue. The uber notifications have always bugged me too.

Prelude 1022: Hi, I received a notification of a schedule change to a flight as part of a classic award booking. I’m calling because a couple of flights on Malaysian and Sri Lankan have dropped off my booking because it wasn’t reticketed in time. Agent 1: Sure I can look into that for you...