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Hi all, it's been a while since I regularly travelled for work and posted on here, as for a long period I was only doing domestic flights and the occasional OS holiday. I recently changed jobs again which will involve a few more OS visits to other countries, so I deceided to re-invigorate my...

Unfortunately it's time to say adios to my dearly loved passport.. :( After 4&1/2 years of faithful service I can't squeeze another visa or stamp in, so it's time for it to retire from travelling and be relegated to a dusty shelf to spend time reflecting on it's days of glory globetrotting...

Having been firmly ensconced in the QF WP and *A Gold velvet gloves for a few years, I thought it might be time to try something new. I took up the VA status match offer last year, but didn't set foot on a VA plane. As is always the case, a month or so after a soft landing to VA Gold the...

Last year I took the status match offered by VA as it appeared that I may be using them for a few flights, but they didn't eventuate and I subsequently dropped to Gold a few months ago. I now have a booking with them; ADL-SYD-LAX return, and I'm trying to do advanced seat selection with no...

Something new and fun for me, clay pigeon shooting tomorrow morning. Maybe no split infinitives, but hopefully shattered clay. :D

If you are in the southern part of Germany, just north of Stuttgart there is the Auto and Technik museum at Sinsheim, and another part of the same museum at Spayer (a few km's away). I hadn't heard of it before, but it has a brilliant collection of all sorts of planes, vehicles, racing cars...

Preamble. Approx a month ago I started planning my trip to our company HQ in Germany. Departure dates to and from ADL to FRA identified and sent off to our travel agency for quotes. After 15 different itinerary iterations I finally settled on the following; [*=left]BA7431, ADL-SYD, in Y...

With my flight from CGK to SYD just completed, I've ticked off another milestone by clocking up 1 million kilometres in the air in the last 5 years. :cool: To put it into perspective, thats 622k miles and 25 times the earths circumference.. Next targets are 1 million miles and lifetime QF SG...

On Monday I'm booked on QF082 from ADL-SYD, then flying QF041 to CGK later in the day. I'm assuming I'll need to clear C&I in ADL to board QF082, and we'll then arrive at SYD T1 where I can simply go through transfers to the Flounge until boarding QF041. Is this right, or do I need to plan...

I'm confused. I'm flying BLR-HKG-SYD-ADL. Done seat selection ages ago and chosen my favourite seats (BLR-HKG-22A, HKG-SYD-40G, SYD-ADL-4A). Requested points upgrade for both HKG-SYD & SYD-ADL. SYD-ADL confirmed almost immediately and points deducted. I know from the website (and previous...

I have a bit of a problem, and hopefully someone may be able to help. :oops: Having grown up in South Australia (and having helped Cooper's Brewery remain financial for the better part of the last 30 years) I have always considered Foster's (and VB for that matter) to be a bit of a joke as a...

Obviously I've now annoyed my luggage enough that it doesn't want to travel with me anymore. I got a call from the airport letting me know my luggage had arrived 24 hours after me. My route was ADL-SYD-PVG-CAN, but my luggage decided to spend a bit more time in SYD, then go SYD-SIN-PVG-CAN...

This is the sixth time this year flying into SYD from ADL and having to transfer from Dom to Int. A few of my flights lately have been on a Sunday, which means the earliest flight out of ADL is 07:00, arriving 09:35 (scheduled) with connecting Int flights departing either 10:35 or 10:45...

Over on FT they have a Travel Photography thread, but I haven't seen one here. (Maybe it would kill the site, particularly given the size of some photo's). Admin please advise? However, following TonyHancock and Misha's advice on irresponsible use of red wine, I thought I might post these two...

This morning on QF 082 from SIN-ADL I was seated in 45K - emergency exit row window seat. The aircraft was a A330-300, ad the emergency exit door directly in front of me had a fairly large protrusion (I assume for the slide) which had a flat surface the same height as the seat. As it was an...

Well, I'll finally reach WP for the first time when I board QF 082 SIN-ADL in the next few hours. Sitting in the QF lounge at SINafter my BOM-SIN flight and my SC's have already been credited. It's been a pretty hard slog to get there. Last QFF year I flew 73 QF sectors, 117,000 miles and...

A couple of weeks ago I received a call from my boss saying that he had 'volunteered' me to go to India to review a joint venture company with which we were having a few issues with. I had been to India 12 months ago, on the tail end of a two week trip that included 3 days of missing luggage...

Hi, I've tried searching the forums and QF website but I can't seem to find a definite answer. I've been booked on and EVA Air flight in C and I,m trying to find out if I will earn Qantas SC's.

Hi, One of my friend's son's needs to travel from ADL to Toronto between the 12th & 16th of January 2011, and return from Vancouver to ADL on the 17th or 18th of February 2011. Price is the primary driver; he's not too concerned about points :shock: or miles :shock:, and is prepared to be...

I've travelled with Q for 15 ~ 20 years. During this time I haven't seen any significant fluctuations in their service for the average traveller. Their on time performance? Pretty good. Their in flight service? Not too bad. Their safety performance? Pretty good. There are many other airlines...