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Sunset over Avalon on the way home after the airshow on Saturday.

A few of the shots my daughter took on the day.

We flew into the show on Saturday morning, worried whether they'd be doing any flying after the Friday incident. Apparently part of the issue with the late start was that the crash site was close to the pyrotechnics used for the wall of fire, which then had to be disarmed for the ATSB...

I use a company called Airly who mainly fly Citation Mustangs - 4 seats plus the 2IC seat if you really need to take 5 pax. CBR-SYD costs me about $5500. For random dates this week QF are charging $1255 per head for J on the 737 (if you can get it, as 90% of the flights on that route are...

Absolutely agreed - the early days of the NP partnership were great. I was on a QF F flight at least monthly across the late 2000s and early 2010s, and the food and beverage was fantastic. I always looked forward to Dom Perignon on boarding and the tasting menu was always special. I even...

The crab pasta dish from the lunch menu just had a small sprinkling of caviar on top, if anything the flavour was lost in the spice of the dish itself. Not dissimilar to the lobster egg breakfast dish in the Sydney lounge, which also had caviar on top that didn't really contribute to the...

Dinner menu

Lunch menu. If I get the dinner menu later this evening I’ll share that too.

Just to update on Cristal - 2 bottles loaded SYD - SIN on SQ212 today, plus 2 of the Krug. Not bad for 2 adults in the cabin to get through. The crew isn’t sure what the plans are beyond the current routes, but suggested it might be around for the longer term based on positive customer feedback...

Cristal is only a limited release at this stage, I believe it is rolling through different routes with SYD-SIN one of the routes in the first cycle. MEL might be in a later cycle if they continue with the offer. Yes, TPR is available on arrival from a flight in F / Suites. I'll be there next...

My eldest first made SG at 2, as soon she was no longer a lap infant and we had to pay for her seats (even if she actually sat with one of us for most of the flights). As mentioned it really only takes a few long haul flights in a premium cabin to hit the 600 SC mark and at the time we had...

I've visited that lounge 5 times in the last 6 weeks, 3 on QF F and 2 BA F (when the BA lounge was closed for renovations). There was no difference on any of the 5 occasions I went through - boarding pass checked at the door, I walked down to the dining area, the attendant there directed me to...

Have been through SIN when flying QF F 4x in the last month. The "off menu" offerings must have been very discreet, never had anything special mentioned.

It'd have better been Michelin quality to have been worth eating themselves given the complaints that the crew had to endure from some of the less "easy going" passengers when they learned they couldn't have their first choice.

No wine list loaded on this flight either so couldn’t post that. They had 2 champagnes, the standard Pommery plus something else unmemorable. Ordered the beef cheek main but none had been loaded on the flight.

QF12 LAX-SYD

QF11 got pushed even further back to 10pm, which was a blessing for us as both team members should now manage to get on the flight. Their connection from LAX is another problem of course...

Not that price is always an indicator of quality, but for comparison that QF1 wine list has an average street price in Australia of $126/bottle (excluding the dessert wines). The CX F flight I’m on right now has an average price of $298, though that is skewed by the champagnes (2004 Krug at...

Qantas moved her onto a SYD flight that was supposed to leave earlier, but now they’ve boarded 2 different flights to SYD including the one she was just moved off and she’s still sitting on the ground in CBR, 11 hours after the flight we actually booked should have left.

Yup, connecting flight just rescheduled again to leave 50 mins in Sydney…