The totally off-topic thread

[QF WP]

Dark mof_ starts today in Hobart . So get your gear off with all those people you've never met before!

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I think we are all eternally grateful you didn't do a selfie

 

[JessicaTam]

I m still tryig to get more details, but emergency crews have been responded to an "engine fire" at MEL.

 

[mannej]

I m still tryig to get more details, but emergency crews have been responded to an "engine fire" at MEL.

MH apparently.

 

[JessicaTam]

MH apparently.

Looks like it. An engine fire on or soon after take off. The engine was shut down and the plane landed safely.

 

[Hvr]

I m still tryig to get more details, but emergency crews have been responded to an "engine fire" at MEL.

Malaysian Airlines passenger jet makes emergency landing at Melbourne Airport
A Malaysian Airlines passenger jet has made an emergency landing at Melbourne Airport.

There have been reports of an engine fire.

Looks like a developing story.

 

[coriander]

Duplicated post deleted.

 

[RooFlyer]

I think we are all eternally grateful you didn't do a selfie

I would go more :shock: than . But then I don't do selfies, full stop.

And do know how COLD the water is? Those people are completely bonkers.

 

[coriander]

And do know how COLD the water is?

For the spectators, then it will be a case of "move along..... nothing to see"

 

[RooFlyer]

I hope the folks around Werribee had the washing in! <<Yeah, I know the dumped fuel wouldn't reach the ground >>


Source: Age story linked above.

 

[RooFlyer]

Bill Shorten called today to appear before the Trade Unions Royal Commission. (its OK .. its a link to a Fairfax news web site.)

ABC 7:30 report leads off tonight with a breathless exposé of bracket creep. Yowsers! I wasn't aware of the phenomena before. No, I'm fibbing ... I've appreciated it all my working life, but its apparently something new to those news hounds at the ABC (I suspect one of their producers has just discovered their generous pay rises have just ticked him up to the next bracket - hence the outraged story).

Really? The LEAD story is on the general phenomena of bracket creep, un-related to anything in particular that has happened this week?

Head of ACTU fumes that this and previous governments didn't do anything about it. Of course certain previous governments did do something to correct bracket creep ... several times actually, but that's un-mentionable on our ABC .

 

[drron]

And I seem to remember that certain ABC people were rather against a certain treasurer when he actually did something about bracket creep.
Don't they also believe that what he did with tax rates is the cause of our economic problems?

 

[Princess Fiona]

I made it to DFW. My favourite US Airport, made even better by the Centurion Lounge
The lounge angel informed me that the new MIA lounge just opened so I'll get to check that out today too

 

[coriander]

I made it to DFW.

Well done. Did you start your status run in LAX or HNL? I ask as you said earlier that you were waiting to fly from LAX to HNL.

 

[Princess Fiona]

Well done. Did you start your status run in LAX or HNL? I ask as you said earlier that you were waiting to fly from LAX to HNL.

I flew LAX-HNL on an Award ticket and started the run from there. I originally had a night stopover and full day in Waikiki but the original flight got delayed by 15 hours turning my stopover into an airport layover. I have another stopover in Waikiki (fingers crossed) at the end of the run and a weekend in BGI coming up.

 

[Flashback]

Quick one for the gurus on Fiji - am pricing up flights from any city on the east coast of Australia and in 'peak' season e.g. school holidays the cost is roughly $800-1000 return. Is there any better way of doing it? I remember there used to be some good J fares, but doubt it would beat that price anyway. I thought of AA miles but the 35k return only seems to be for Aus-NZ return travel, not including Fiji.

 

[Princess Fiona]

I'm now at the Centurion Lounge MIA. Here's some pics


It's pretty nice, although like the other lounges at MIA pretty busy. Some poor German lady in front of me was trying to get in with an unrecognized Bank Amex card and then told she could pay $50. Saved her the bother by guesting her
Just had a chair massage, it was actually quite good although I felt a little sheepish when I had to sneak back to get my wallet for the obligatory tip

One more flight to go!!

 

[cove]

Got to Sydney last night on our last JASA that we booked so long ago. Now the Fremantle Dockers are playing Gold Coast so we have decided to go to the game and catch up with our son. He used AA miles and we used a classic QF redemption. It was a long cut going PER-MEL-SYD for status credits.
I wish QF would bring back Any Seat JASAs that make sense.

 

[Deleted member]

It will be another 12-24 months I suspect before QF are able to adequately judge the success of the removal of the old time ASA.

 

[medhead]

Bill Shorten called today to appear before the Trade Unions Royal Commission. (its OK .. its a link to a Fairfax news web site.)

ABC 7:30 report leads off tonight with a breathless exposé of bracket creep. Yowsers! I wasn't aware of the phenomena before. No, I'm fibbing ... I've appreciated it all my working life, but its apparently something new to those news hounds at the ABC (I suspect one of their producers has just discovered their generous pay rises have just ticked him up to the next bracket - hence the outraged story).

Really? The LEAD story is on the general phenomena of bracket creep, un-related to anything in particular that has happened this week?

Head of ACTU fumes that this and previous governments didn't do anything about it. Of course certain previous governments did do something to correct bracket creep ... several times actually, but that's un-mentionable on our ABC .

And I seem to remember that certain ABC people were rather against a certain treasurer when he actually did something about bracket creep.
Don't they also believe that what he did with tax rates is the cause of our economic problems?

All media outlets have an annual story on bracket creep. No treasurer has ever done anything to fix bracket creep. All they've done is occasional adjust the tax brackets, once they've taken their slice. This is true of treasurers from either party.

I never seen tax bracket adjustment being blamed for the current economic problems. But some people never let the facts get in the way of their biased political rantings.

 

[amaroo]

It will be another 12-24 months I suspect before QF are able to adequately judge the success of the removal of the old time ASA.

21 months in our case