Annual NZ Dinner: AKL 8 March 2025

[craven morehead]

@JessicaTam please add 2 for our dinner at cheers CM

@Jessica

@JessicaTam please add 2 for our dinner at cheers CM

If possible, please add a 3rd family member and advise if ok.

So it's now, CM, Mrs. CM and +3

Cheers CM

 

[JessicaTam]

@Jessica


If possible, please add a 3rd family member and advise if ok.

So it's now, CM, Mrs. CM and +3

Cheers CM

So now there are 5 of you in total?

 

[craven morehead]

So now there are 5 of you in total?

Yes please, if that's possible

 

[DejaBrew]

@JessicaTam - Is there still room for another attendee? Looks like I can make it (assuming there's space).

 

[JessicaTam]

@JessicaTam - Is there still room for another attendee? Looks like I can make it (assuming there's space).

There should be. As soon as the time difference allows I am going to ring them one last time for final numbers.

 

[RooFlyer]

Arriving SYD-AKL QF147 23:00, 7 March
Dep AKL-SYD QF142 7:30 9 March
Staying AKL Novotel.

 

[JessicaTam]

I have spoken to the restaurant and increased the numbers to a final 28.

If anyone else would like to join us, please check with me first before making any travel arrangements.

With this many coming, do I need to get name tags?!?

 

[RooFlyer]

With this many coming, do I need to get name tags?!?

DEKWIA?

 

[JessicaTam]

I will give name tags a try. I am still away but should be able to print something when I get back.

I will message some of you to check you/your companion names in the next little while.

 

[Katie]

I will give name tags a try. I am still away but should be able to print something when I get back.

I will message some of you to check you/your companion names in the next little while.

If you need some printing help, let me know. I have some sticky labels from school cake stalls.

 

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[CMA222]

Those on QF154 to MEL on Sunday 9 March will have received notification that it has been cancelled and been moved to QF152 at 0605. There are no remaining J seats on QF156 I am told. Typical QF - either you are delayed or cancelled. I have cancelled my booking and we will now not be able to attend. Good old QF - consistently hopeless.

 

[JessicaTam]

Those on QF154 to MEL on Sunday 9 March will have received notification that it has been cancelled and been moved to QF152 at 0605. There are no remaining J seats on QF156 I am told. Typical QF - either you are delayed or cancelled. I have cancelled my booking and we will now not be able to attend. Good old QF - consistently hopeless.

I got that email and was able to move myself, JT+1 and Mrs L to QF156.

There are seats on QF152 if you can stomach the early start.

 

[serfty]

I'm on QF158 - very empty. Shame the EK lounge is undergoing renovations

 

[CMA222]

I'm on QF158 - very empty. Shame the EK lounge is undergoing renovations

We were going through to SYD so QF158 gets us in to MEL too late. The +1 says "no thanks" to an early departure after what could be a late evening. There was no SYD direct available in J. They "found" me one J seat on QF 156 but if the second person then travelled in whY they said the booking would be split and it was a new booking and the only whY available was fully flex and I had to pay the fare difference, because the whY seat cost was more than the J fare. The original offer of QF152 departing at 0605 had us sitting in MEL for 9 hours before we could get a J seat to SYD. That is the level of Platinum service QF considers acceptable. Last straw for me with QF. Cathay Pacific and JAL from now on, so NZ will be out.

 

[serfty]

the only whY available was fully flex and I had to pay the fare difference,

That is rubbish! Given QF cancelled your flight and their proposed alternative was unacceptable to you, reaccommodation in the class of service booked should have been free of charge. See the following agency policy:

https://www.qantas.com/agencyconnect/au/en/policies/service/schedule-change-policies/qantas-and-other-airline-schedule-change-policy-.html

 

[CMA222]

That is rubbish! Given QF cancelled your flight and their proposed alternative was unacceptable to you, reaccommodation in the class of service booked should have been free of charge. See the following agency policy:

https://www.qantas.com/agencyconnect/au/en/policies/service/schedule-change-policies/qantas-and-other-airline-schedule-change-policy-.html

Yes I agree. That is what I told them (South Africa) but the person referred to their supervisor and they said "No" the new price applies. By that stage I had had enough of QF and cancelled the booking entirely. Yet another reason to dump QF - consistently inconsistent.

 

[serfty]

their supervisor

I think the current term is "Team Coach".

 

[Kiwi_Flyer]

Still 2 unallocated J seats on qf156.

 

[CMA222]

Still 2 unallocated J seats on qf156.

Where are you seeing two unallocated J seats. On Monday 17th I was told there were no J seats left on 156 and when I started running through alternatives, suddenly they "found" one J seat. They stuffed me around with dealing with second person on the booking till they insisted I had to pay a fare difference to "down grade" the second person to sit in whY. That is when I gave up and cancelled.