anat0l
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This is a just a very short trip report about me flying DJ. There are no pictures; this is mainly a review of DJ for someone who usually flies QF.
Don't know whether I should've posted this in the Velocity forum....
As a QF WP, most of my flying domestically (irrespective of how sparse lately) has been on QF. However, last week I had to go to a mine site, and I only got the OK to go the Wednesday the week before.
The mine site was situated at Orange, NSW. Those of you with Googling skills won't have to work hard to find out which mine site it was.
All work travel at our university (with some exceptions, and this wasn't one of them) must be booked through Campus Travel (associated with a much known company called Flight Centre). So we (we = our travel organisers, not the travelers themselves) tell them we need to get to Orange. Needless to say, the systems return ZL flights to and from OAG, with DJ flights between BNE and SYD, which is the "obvious" choice since ZL and DJ interline. Most of us fly QF all the time, unless QF can't service that port, but as I deduced later, QF between BNE and SYD was over $150 per one-way more expensive than the DJ fare (which was also very high, but what did you expect for a late booking).
Like most towns and cities with mining activity near them, OAG flights tend to be well-booked out unless one does so in advanced, thus able to get their hands on a reasonably priced fare. In our case, there were close to nil seats (for our party of 4 people) to fly SYD-OAG. So the decision was made: fly BNE-SYD on DJ, then pick-up the hire car from SYD and drive 3-4 hours to OAG. We could fly all the way from OAG on the return.
Don't know whether I should've posted this in the Velocity forum....
As a QF WP, most of my flying domestically (irrespective of how sparse lately) has been on QF. However, last week I had to go to a mine site, and I only got the OK to go the Wednesday the week before.
The mine site was situated at Orange, NSW. Those of you with Googling skills won't have to work hard to find out which mine site it was.
All work travel at our university (with some exceptions, and this wasn't one of them) must be booked through Campus Travel (associated with a much known company called Flight Centre). So we (we = our travel organisers, not the travelers themselves) tell them we need to get to Orange. Needless to say, the systems return ZL flights to and from OAG, with DJ flights between BNE and SYD, which is the "obvious" choice since ZL and DJ interline. Most of us fly QF all the time, unless QF can't service that port, but as I deduced later, QF between BNE and SYD was over $150 per one-way more expensive than the DJ fare (which was also very high, but what did you expect for a late booking).
Like most towns and cities with mining activity near them, OAG flights tend to be well-booked out unless one does so in advanced, thus able to get their hands on a reasonably priced fare. In our case, there were close to nil seats (for our party of 4 people) to fly SYD-OAG. So the decision was made: fly BNE-SYD on DJ, then pick-up the hire car from SYD and drive 3-4 hours to OAG. We could fly all the way from OAG on the return.
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