AFF Gathering #9 at CNS on 16 - 18 October

tuapekastar · Oct 19, 2015

Just saw kpc and +1 off to the airport for their flight home after a nice drive up to Port Douglas for lunch (firmly clutching gwilli1's left-behind items).

A great weekend, met a number of new faces and reacquainted with many old ones (you know what I mean

). Thanks heaps to JessicaTam, straitman, penegal and samh004 for the organising, Hilton/DT GM, QF pilot Ian Kerr and RedRoo for their entertaining and informative speaking, prize sponsors (QF, VA, Doug_Westcott, Major, admin/AFF and any others I may have missed (sorry). penegal for the arrival taxi service, the staff at both Hilton and especially DoubleTree for looking after us well.

Sorry if I missed anybody. Also of course thanks to all who turned up. If none of us did then these weekends wouldn't happen.

Till next year...

Gem56 · Oct 19, 2015

This was my first "get together" as a member and made some great new friends & learnt lots of tips, including all about a "Mattress Run". Thanks to everyone for their contribution to making that happen. I appreciate that planning these events is extremely time consuming. Great effort by everyone involved, including a fantastic limo service by Penegal.

jojen · Oct 19, 2015

mickeyc747 said:
As AFF nine draws to a close,
those leaving CNS no longer in droves,
we partied hard and drank so much wine,
won't mention who was last home every time,
the dinners out or lunches at a pub,
who new this lot would be better than an A330 sub,
so all of you who organised the event,
your tireless efforts never relent,
meeting new faces year after year,
shows what a great group we are so lets cheer,
till AFF ten we await,
is it DRW or is it PER we debate,
Hope to see you all again at mattress run,
Chasing status credits is always fun.
Take Care Mickeyc747

In in a rhyming mood,
Instead of a drinking mood.

Great to catch up with you again and have a great holiday !!!

JohnM · Oct 19, 2015

samh004 said:
At the appropriate time, I will start the thread, and it will be AFF Gathering #10: PER!

Got a rough idea of when Sam?

kpc · Oct 19, 2015

gwilli1 said:
I did eventually after retrieving a spare set of keys from a friend

Aside , kpc , now has the forgotten articles in his possession and they will be winging there way to SYD to its forgetful owner tonight.

Goods delivered

Major · Oct 19, 2015

As we are now home after a fantastic few days we would like to give a BIG thank you to Jessica Tam, straitman and their terrific team. Their organisation was faultless

We had a great weekend catching up with known faces and meeting new members.

We look forward to future functions

Aeolus · Oct 19, 2015

jojen said:
We lost our shadow in 6B but made up with it from special treats delivered to us from Aeolus by the lovely CSM Anthony !!!

Anthony Whitlock, definitely one of the top CSM I've met to date, will commend him to QF Customer experience. If anyone is on his flight, he should know who we (AFF) are now!

My best QF Dom flight to date, at one stage, I was having a conversation with 2xdreamliner pilots, the CSM and the FA at the galley. Unfortunately I'm not at all well versed on aircraft terms so I couldn't ask much about the 787 ( they are all thingy's to me

) but it was so interesting learning a bit more about the airline industry.

gwilli1 · Oct 19, 2015

kpc said:
Goods delivered

A big thanks to you ,kpc for kindly playing VIP courier and bringing my goods down. Very much appreciated.

samh004 · Oct 20, 2015

JohnM said:
Got a rough idea of when Sam?

It has changed to a poll of locations, but shall be this week.

QF WP · Oct 20, 2015

I got my email from DT:

[TABLE="width: 600, align: center"]
[TR]
[TD]Thank you for your recent stay at DoubleTree by Hilton. We know you have a choice of hotels and we really appreciate your business.
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]As a valued HHonors member, your feedback is important to us.
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]We would be grateful if you could complete a short survey about your stay at
DoubleTree by Hilton Cairns, QLD
where you checked out from on 18 October 2015.
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]

I have good thinks to say (didn't have the unfortunate experience of CaviAck).

blackcat20 · Oct 20, 2015

QF WP said:
I got my email from DT:

[TABLE="width: 600, align: center"]
[TR]
[TD]Thank you for your recent stay at DoubleTree by Hilton. We know you have a choice of hotels and we really appreciate your business. [/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]As a valued HHonors member, your feedback is important to us. [/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]We would be grateful if you could complete a short survey about your stay at
DoubleTree by Hilton Cairns, QLD
where you checked out from on 18 October 2015. [/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]

I have good thinks to say (didn't have the unfortunate experience of CaviAck).

No survey here yet; while our stay was fine, we did miss out on a few benefits...

QF WP · Oct 20, 2015

Seems like a lot of us got this SMS on the party flight:

kpc · Oct 20, 2015

I'm trying to put together a list of all the AFF gatherings, starting with the first one in Melbourne in 2008....It will also be good to know where we have been, when we plan where to next: (Looks like I have been to 5 of them

Awesom Andy · Oct 20, 2015

kpc said:
I'm trying to put together a list of all the AFF gatherings, starting with the first one in Melbourne in 2008....It will also be good to know where we have been, when we plan where to next: (Looks like I have been to 5 of them )

I'm relatively a new comer... but, the furthest west we've been to is Adelaide?! :shock: Either DRW or PER will fix this, however.

JessicaTam · Oct 20, 2015

QF WP said:
I got my email from DT:

[TABLE="width: 600, align: center"]
[TR]
[TD]Thank you for your recent stay at DoubleTree by Hilton. We know you have a choice of hotels and we really appreciate your business. [/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]As a valued HHonors member, your feedback is important to us. [/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]We would be grateful if you could complete a short survey about your stay at
DoubleTree by Hilton Cairns, QLD
where you checked out from on 18 October 2015. [/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]

I have good thinks to say (didn't have the unfortunate experience of CaviAck).

I was interested when this came up over the weekend. I didn't even know they did surveys until then as I have never had one.

Limewood · Oct 21, 2015

Mrs Lime very happy with the picture prize. Must say the meal at Hilton was excellent noting the prawn dish was sensational and the dot idea for who gets what meal was a good idea.

Jacques Vert · Oct 21, 2015

+1 & I are back in Cairns after a detour to Cooktown. If anyone is still around and needs a lift to the airport this afternoon or Thursday morning send a PM to Gem56.

JV

penegal · Oct 21, 2015

Jacques Vert said:
+1 & I are back in Cairns after a detour to Cooktown. If anyone is still around and needs a lift to the airport this afternoon or Thursday morning send a PM to Gem56.

JV

Which flight are you on tomorrow?

Jacques Vert · Oct 21, 2015

penegal said:
Which flight are you on tomorrow?

QF649 to BNE @ 1240

penegal · Oct 21, 2015

Jacques Vert said:
QF649 to BNE @ 1240

Are you sitting behind or in front of me?

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