simongr
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Journey – DRW-ADL-SYD
Flight no. – QF82
Class – Business
Seat – 4DF
It is hot and humid even at 4AM in DRW and finally we get to check in. As this is an internationally numbered flight we weren’t able to do OLCI. There is thankfully no queue for check in and we begin the process. I had pre-selected 3AB knowing that there were three seats in the middle section and mrssimongr wouldn’t want to sit next to a stranger and I wouldn’t want to be in the middle. This was done on two PNRs though as mine was my DONE4 and hers was the AAward. I was a little perturbed then when I was asked if they wanted to move us so that we could sit together???? For some reason I was still in 3B and mrssimongr was in 4F… We were offered 4DF which I wasn’t happy about as I did want to avoid the middle section.
Through security and for some reason my standard flight outfit sets off the WTMD and it is quite a palaver getting all my stuff back together – I wasn’t as prepared as normal.
Up to the departure lounge and the QP is not yet open. It finally opens but we have very little time there as we have to go through secondary screening for the international flight which itself is a nightmare. In the lounge I see if I can get moved up a couple of rows and get a window – at least from ADL to SYD but there is no help forthcoming as the flight is “full”
Two guys had examine every pax’s hand luggage – it is a painfully slow process only to be followed by the second transit lounge which is packed with transit pax and JQ pax – and then the flight is delayed by about 15 mins. Mrssimongr is actually feeling a little faint by the time that we finally we board and I see that the centre section of the airbus is in fact only two seats so one small crisis averted. Mrssimongr is blown away by the Skybed as she has never flown one before and now refuses to fly in any other seat again…
I skip breakfast knowing that I will be eating ADL-SYD and potentially in the ADL QP. It is a fairly short hop to ADL and we are soon on the ground and through security looking for the QP. It is a fruitless search as there is no lounge on the international side of the terminal at ADL
Thankfully boarding starts almost on time and we are back on board. I am little surprised that the “full” flight is only about 1/3 full in J so we could have moved and in fact one pax has moved up to row 1 from row 3. Breakfast is served and by the time they get to us they have run out of the hot breakfast – something I would have avoided if we had been in the seats I had requested. I was further perturbed as in row 2 there were Qantas staff family flying – so a paying pax missed out on a further forward seat and breakfast in favour of staff…
The remainder of the flight is fairly uneventful and finally we landing into SYD. Mrsismongr avoids the pain on descent again through the use of the “earplanes” and we are quickly through immigration with our D stickers, quickly through quarantine’ collected by my driver and for the final time I am on my way home properly!!
Flight no. – QF82
Class – Business
Seat – 4DF
It is hot and humid even at 4AM in DRW and finally we get to check in. As this is an internationally numbered flight we weren’t able to do OLCI. There is thankfully no queue for check in and we begin the process. I had pre-selected 3AB knowing that there were three seats in the middle section and mrssimongr wouldn’t want to sit next to a stranger and I wouldn’t want to be in the middle. This was done on two PNRs though as mine was my DONE4 and hers was the AAward. I was a little perturbed then when I was asked if they wanted to move us so that we could sit together???? For some reason I was still in 3B and mrssimongr was in 4F… We were offered 4DF which I wasn’t happy about as I did want to avoid the middle section.
Through security and for some reason my standard flight outfit sets off the WTMD and it is quite a palaver getting all my stuff back together – I wasn’t as prepared as normal.
Up to the departure lounge and the QP is not yet open. It finally opens but we have very little time there as we have to go through secondary screening for the international flight which itself is a nightmare. In the lounge I see if I can get moved up a couple of rows and get a window – at least from ADL to SYD but there is no help forthcoming as the flight is “full”
Two guys had examine every pax’s hand luggage – it is a painfully slow process only to be followed by the second transit lounge which is packed with transit pax and JQ pax – and then the flight is delayed by about 15 mins. Mrssimongr is actually feeling a little faint by the time that we finally we board and I see that the centre section of the airbus is in fact only two seats so one small crisis averted. Mrssimongr is blown away by the Skybed as she has never flown one before and now refuses to fly in any other seat again…
I skip breakfast knowing that I will be eating ADL-SYD and potentially in the ADL QP. It is a fairly short hop to ADL and we are soon on the ground and through security looking for the QP. It is a fruitless search as there is no lounge on the international side of the terminal at ADL

Thankfully boarding starts almost on time and we are back on board. I am little surprised that the “full” flight is only about 1/3 full in J so we could have moved and in fact one pax has moved up to row 1 from row 3. Breakfast is served and by the time they get to us they have run out of the hot breakfast – something I would have avoided if we had been in the seats I had requested. I was further perturbed as in row 2 there were Qantas staff family flying – so a paying pax missed out on a further forward seat and breakfast in favour of staff…
The remainder of the flight is fairly uneventful and finally we landing into SYD. Mrsismongr avoids the pain on descent again through the use of the “earplanes” and we are quickly through immigration with our D stickers, quickly through quarantine’ collected by my driver and for the final time I am on my way home properly!!