Let us know your most outrageous thoughts on any topic about flying

[Matt_01]

Occassionally I will look at the Tumi bags but the prices, Oy vey, the prices!

And the weight of Tumi hand luggage is also an issue.

 

[Dr Ralph]

'Let us know your most outrageous thoughts on any topic about flying'

The mile high club is over rated.

 

[juddles]

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The mile high club is over rated.

I think that modern weather radar in planes has taken most of the fun out of it. Turbulence is not always a bad thing.

 

[drron]

'Let us know your most outrageous thoughts on any topic about flying'

The mile high club is over rated.

Please explain.

 

[Forg]

Surely as a doctor you have those details?!

 

[burmans]

Perhaps not so outrageous....but duty free stores airside that sell suitcases/cabin roller bags. What? Why? I've always found it baffling.

Passengers are already airside with their cabin luggage. Now unless a catastrophe occurs and that bag breaks and need an emergency replacement, does anyone purchase these? Would you have to gate check it? Do airlines allow for an extra bag if its duty free and treat it like any other duty free? Or are they just there to fill up floor space.

Given the price of real estate at airports you'd have to suggest the answer is yes, they have a viable business. No, I don't understand either, but then much of human behaviour isn't overly rational.

 

[maccaisking]

harvyk, I get the loving of flying. I also understand that status can seem important. But in my humble opinion a status run has to be a mathematical equation. IE that the benefits to be obtained outweigh the extra cash spent. I have only seen evidence of the is equation a couple of times in many endless posts regarding this.

Whilst a few may do it just for the sake of it, I think many more would have an end goal in mind.
I took my first status run this year, spending around $330 to reach VA Plat so I could use the guaranteed family reward benefit to book flights to LA in early January. These tickets saved myself and 3 others around $700 each - saving based on the $1800 cash fares vs points I used being acquired for just under 1c each. (Fingers are crossed for business reward seats being released but I’m locked to one date so may not get that option)
Another benefit which is harder to quantify in $ terms but certainly exists is the earlier access to reward seats by holding QF status. Doubtlessly there are many more reasons.

 

[Hvr]

'Let us know your most outrageous thoughts on any topic about flying'

The mile high club is over rated.

Just because you didn't enjoy it doesn't mean other people don't enjoy it.
Did you join the 'owner operated' branch? Or 'the with a partner' branch?

 

[Matt_01]

......Did you join the 'owner operated' branch? Or 'the with a partner' branch?

Your dry wit continues to make me laugh, both online and in when we have caught up in person.

 

[VPS]

Just because you didn't enjoy it doesn't mean other people don't enjoy it.
Did you join the 'owner operated' branch? Or 'the with a partner' branch?

Ahh so you do know some humour and you didn't post it in the humour thread

 

[TonyHancock]

Mr Hancock to answer your question, if I was only a couple of hundred TP way from the 7000 mark would I make a run SYD-PER to realise defined benefits I would most likely do that. Heck what is an extra 200 TP when you are close to the 7000 mark. In my lousy scheme if I get to 7000 SC I am rewarded with 100K worth of FF points, hardly an incentive.

I understand your pain, and as my need to travel to and from Europe falls away in the coming months I suspect I will find myself crediting to a more local airline that may or may be part of the OW alliance!!!!! I am very pleased I had the opportunity to make the most of BAEC, I know it is not easy to do so when you are based in Australia with not so much EU travel.

 

[clipped_wings]

The mile high club is over rated.

Then you're not doing it right.

 

[Mr Pumblechook]

I'd rather take a day flight in Y than an overnight flight in J. No exceptions.

 

[SeatBackForward]

I'd rather take a day flight in Y than an overnight flight in J. No exceptions.

I'd rather take a day flight in J than an overnight flight in Y. errr..what you said!

 

[Aeolus]

1. Non status pax queuing in priority lane even when that queue is longer than the normal one. Why?!?!

2. People with P1 tags on all their bags but were never P1.

 

[harvyk]

1. Non status pax queuing in priority lane even when that queue is longer than the normal one. Why?!?!

2. People with P1 tags on all their bags but were never P1.

People with status'd RFID tags on their hand luggage full stop.

Seriously WHY? It's not like others in the lounge would look at you and go "oh you're special, you've got lounge access", and when you're out in the terminal most people don't know what the colours mean anyway, and something tells me that the the person is not about to checkin in an oversized school bag...

/rant

 

[Katie]

I thought you had to go to Denver or higher for the mile high club.

 

[Katie]

I really liked the Pancake breakfast on UA SFO-SYD in Y back in the mid 2000s.

 

[Katie]

I wish my Grandad had let my Mum become a flight attendant. OK, maybe that's not outrageous. But back in the 60s/70s when she wanted to become an FA, my Grandad said it wasn't a suitable occupation, and she should become a nurse or housewife instead.

 

[Katie]

I wish Avgas smelled nicer. I hate the wave of nausea I get when it hits me boarding a plane.