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Finally has finished training in BNE - sometime overnight. Local creek slowly on the way down, it has broken its banks as usual (in heavy rain) but not got to the heights of January last year...
 
Flashware said:
Off to a tropical themed party tonight, boardies, sunnies, thongs and all! :lol: I'll certainly look the odd one out on the tube...
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You wouldn't be the oddest bod on the tube by a long shot ... Used to love catching the last tubes and early morning tubes - just to see what the cat dragged in ;)
 
Seems like AKL was the AFF place to be this weekend - I certainly would have if not for booking an MR for this week last year.

Those guys seem to have enjoyed it much as I reckon I would have. :D

Soon to take my 13th Flight since Wednesday. By the time I am back in MEL it represents 630 SC's, 34K earned QFF points, 485 SP's and 275
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irpeso's.

All are useful for my travel -

- the SC's have re-qualified me WP,
- the QFF points are half of the nett points cost of a transpacific JASA
- the SP's leave me a hop short of two year GE qualification
- the
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are useful to confirm some upgrades before NZ destroy most of the remaining usefulness of the
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irpoints program on May 30th.


Last night the LAX T4 F/L had BBQ baby back ribs with spicy rice and steamed beans - nice if not messy (beards don't help :-|).

This evening the LAX T2 NZ 'international lounge' has 'chicken' noodle soup and either vegetarian or beef lasagna as its hot 'food' option - coming out in 3 kg foil trays.

At least the cheese and the salads are nicer ...

Tonight I get to try NZ premium product transpacific.
 
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Well most of my SCs from my American Odyssey have posted and I am now officially a Lifetime Silver. Only took 5.5 years. Now onward to LTG.

Whoops, I cannot count it was 5.5 years not 4.5 years. Should've used all of the fingers.:rolleyes:
 
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mmmm gale force winds to go with the continuing drought....and my did it drought overnight and continues to pour drought from the skies. :p

I want to come home now! :(
 
Thirty years ago today on 29 April 1982 I departed on my first international flight SYD/LAX which was QF11 onboard VH-EAA 747SP "City of Gold Coast Tweed". The routing back then was SYD/BNE/HNL/LAX as at that point in time only PanAm operated their 747SP's non-stop SYD/LAX/SYD.

The return flight LAX/SYD departing on 15 May 1982 was QF12 & same rego VH-EAA with the routing LAX/HNL/TSV/SYD.

I was travelling with a school friend & we'd been staying in Huntington Beach CA with family friends of hers. She was travelling on staff travel as her dad worked for QF & was paged in HNL to see if she wanted to take QF4 direct HNL/SYD as she could have had a J class seat. I naturally wanted to stay on QF12 as I was keen to go on the SP plus I didn't want to miss out on an extra takeoff & landing in TSV.

She reluctantly stayed on QF12 with me in whY & I think she was a tad put out about not getting J due to a last minute commercial pax getting on the QF12 which turned out to be Ray Martin who had just been doing a story for 60 Minutes about some guy in jail for espionage.

I still remember having the nicest crispy cheese & bacon croissant on the final TSV/SYD leg of the return journey.

Edit: just found out the 60 minutes story was about spy Christopher John Boyce who according to Wikipedia received misdirected cables from the CIA about how they wanted to depose the Whitlam Government because Gough wanted to close US bases in Australia including Pine Gap in addition to the withdrawal of Australian troops in Vietnam. This story inspired a book called the Falcon & The Snowman by Robert Lindsey.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_John_Boyce
 
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Thirty years ago today on 29 April 1982 I departed on my first international flight SYD/LAX which was QF11 onboard VH-EAA 747SP "City of Gold Coast Tweed". The routing back then was SYD/BNE/HNL/LAX as at that point in time only PanAm operated their 747SP's non-stop SYD/LAX/SYD.

The return flight LAX/SYD departing on 15 May 1982 was QF12 & same rego VH-EAA with the routing LAX/HNL/TSV/SYD.

I was travelling with a school friend & we'd been staying in Huntington Beach CA with family friends of hers. She was travelling on staff travel as her dad worked for QF & was paged in HNL to see if she wanted to take QF4 direct HNL/SYD as she could have had a J class seat. I naturally wanted to stay on QF12 as I was keen to go on the SP plus I didn't want to miss out on an extra takeoff & landing in TSV.

She reluctantly stayed on QF12 with me in whY & I think she was a tad put out about not getting J due to a last minute commercial pax getting on the QF12 which turned out to be Ray Martin who had just been doing a story for 60 Minutes about some guy in jail for espionage.

I still remember having the nicest crispy cheese & bacon croissant on the final TSV/SYD leg of the return journey.
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That's a great memory to have :) My first international flight was a charter to ADB in 1984 with my best friend and family. It was the first time I had been away from home alone and I was very nervous. My friend was an accomplished traveller so I just followed her lead, ra-ra skirt and all ;)
 
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That's a great memory to have :) My first international flight was a charter to ADB in 1984 with my best friend and family. It was the first time I had been away from home alone and I was very nervous. My friend was an accomplished traveller so I just followed her lead, ra-ra skirt and all ;)
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Wot is a ra ra skirt...
 
Took well over an hour to get to the airport this morning in AKL from the Mercure Windsor.

Reason? Apparently its graduation day for one of the unis in Auckland. They have this odd tradition of marching in their graduation regalia on the city street, which meant that most of Queen Street was closed.

The traffic backed up; the police tried to divert people to alternatives, but a combination of ineffective re-routing and some blockhead drivers who couldn't make lemonade out of lemons to save their life meant that it was a slow crawl out of the CBD.
 
Just rang the QF premium desk with a request to have three different booking references (ASA DSC run) linked. He pulled the three bookings up & then let out a kind of a shocked gasp when he viewed the itinerary & quickly added that something must have gone wrong with the bookings & have I checked them! Followed by - one booking shows that you are flying from SYD to MEL then straight back to SYD & then straight onto BNE.....on the same day!

He offered to go through each one & to fix any errors - great bloke.

When I explained why....& then why again, he kinda laughed & proceeded to the make notes on file regarding international connections.

Lovely fellow, very helpful & polite.....wonder what he said when I hung up;)
 
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