Weekend in Sydney 30th-31st July, 2011 (inc FLounge run)- COME PLAY!

[Hvr]

Damn! Is that a radiator heater??!!??

I guess I don't miss Melbourne in winter

If a radiator is all you need it's not really winter. Here in CBR it was minus 6 this morning and even colder yesterday morning.

Looks like you all had a really great day, hope to make the next one.

 

[LiamR]

I had a great day, nice meeting everybody. Sorry if I didn't get around to introduce myself to everybody..

The highlights of my day had to be:

Being told I'm not allowed to stand near a bulkhead/exit row, incase we need to suddenly evacuate. (We were at 35,000ft)

Not moving and hiding, along with everybody else when that evil flight attendant walked by.

Being told "Sir, sit in your seat, and stay there" by the flight attendant when she caught on to what we were doing.

Watching anat0l come out of the F Lounge bathrooms with a bag full of soaps, creams and other assured things he could steal.

The look on the poor girl at Virgin when she saw 15 of us walk into the Lounge, someone holding up a QF Platinum card and saying "Does this let me in?

Thinking everything is going to be quick and simple, as I received by JQ boarding pass at OOL, only to get a txt upon landing from sam004h to see that T1 went into Meltdown.

Who took the group photo? Can they post the pictures somewhere... We have to do this again in a few months time.. Hopefully we aren't banned form JQ35.

 

[samh004]

Watching anat0l come out of the F Lounge bathrooms with a bag full of soaps, creams and other assured things he could steal.

Was it Molton Brown?

 

[drewbles]

There was.a downgrade after takeoff, not an AFF member though.

Sent from my LG-P500 using AustFreqFly App

That would have been my seat mate. Somehow he saw '2:30pm' on his boarding pass as '2A' even though it clearly said '50A'. The CSM kicked them out back to the back of the bus after take-off.

FYI I was caught up with work the entire time hence my lack of sociability. I shouldn't have even really taken the trip, I had so much work to do this w/end

 

[thewinchester]

Yes, it was a bloody great day out. So many people to meet and so little time, specially since its been a long time between drinks. I'm also a little scared that my username when mentioned caused instant recognition - don't know if that's a good or bad thing.

Sadly, I'm still suffering the effects of the SYD descent. Despite spending the whole return flight talking to a lovely young lady (sadly already taken otherwise I would have made a run at her) and her dad en route to NRT on tonight's QF21, the descent nearly killed me and four hours after I'm still suffering a painful inner ear.

The conversation did lead to why I was flying today, and when she heard the stories of the F Lounge I was promptly informed that if I ever scored WP status she'd dump her current boyfriend for me in a heartbeat. Dreams are free.

Lawless: I think I can forgive your sins but I will be requiring my boots cleaned at some point, tongue cleaning optional LOL

Was it Molton Brown?

Payot I believe.

 

[Lawlass]

Lawless: I think I can forgive your sins but I will be requiring my boots cleaned at some point, tongue cleaning optional LOLPayot I believe.

Dude, give me a link to my sin, because sadly your username rang no bell with me.

 

[JohnK]

Being told I'm not allowed to stand near a bulkhead/exit row, incase we need to suddenly evacuate. (We were at 35,000ft)

Not moving and hiding, along with everybody else when that evil flight attendant walked by.

Being told "Sir, sit in your seat, and stay there" by the flight attendant when she caught on to what we were doing.

So what were you doing?

I hope the group did not torment the JQ cabin crew too much! :shock:

 

[samh004]

So what were you doing?

I hope the group did not torment the JQ cabin crew too much! :shock:

We were congregating at the inflight bar. Or at least, where the bar should have been had they installed it...

 

[Lawlass]

Awesome day meeting up with some posters again and putting faces to the handles of others, but paying for it with a wicked hangover now.

Highlight for me was the dinner at the awesome little restaurant in a Melbourne laneway last night, found by penegal. The prawn and crab stack was to die for. Though the sticky toffee pudding in the Flounge came a close second.





Many thanks to Taezer for getting the ball rolling.

When's the next one? :mrgreen:

(have been told I'm not to overuse the icon any more)

 

[connieguy]

Here are 2 shots of the DJ "The Lounge" run. AFF owned "The Lounge":

 

[LiamR]

JQ dom said they will NOT issue JQ35 BP.

Oh that's funny, because after some pushing they issued thewinchester a boarding pass.

There's a difference between, it can't be done & I don't know how to do that.

 

[connieguy]

Oh that's funny, because after some pushing they issued thewinchester a boarding pass.

There's a difference between, it can't be done & I don't know how to do that.

JQ dom Syd check-in supervisor did say they could issue the BP for JQ35 but they did not have any of the orange D stickers. Did he get a BP issued by JQ dom in Syd with the orange D sticker? Only interested for future reference.

 

[samh004]

Here are 2 shots of the DJ "The Lounge" run. AFF owned "The Lounge":

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AFF members being anti-social in the most social section of the lounge. Who'd have thought?

JQ dom Syd check-in supervisor did say they could issue the BP for JQ35 but they did not have any of the orange D stickers. Did he get a BP issued by JQ dom in Syd with the orange D sticker? Only interested for future reference.

I think most got their D stickers from the F desks. Though those in BNE also got theirs at the BNE QP.

 

[connieguy]

I think most got their D stickers from the F desks. Though those in BNE also got theirs at the BNE QP.

Thanks for that. Noted for future reference. Looks like the power of the plastic WP cards works wonders with QF F check-in staff.

Come to think of it, I bet the Syd QF F girls could have issued the JQ35 BP. When I fly Adl/Mel/Bkk on QF/JQ, if I'm really nice to the QF girls at Adl, they will give me the JQ29 BP that issues with the QF BP for Adl/Mel issues. Why? Because I call the WP desk and link the flights together so any bags interline to Bkk and thus the QF system issues both BPs when it produces the interline bag ties for any checked baggage (yes sometimes I do check baggage, well not baggage but test equipment). So thinking back the QF check-in system can issue JQ international BPs. (He says kicking himself, thinking about the wasted time chasing the JQ35 BP issue and lost FLounge time)

Oh BTW this was my first visit to the Syd FLounge. Much bigger than the Mel FLounge, which I like better. I guess being much smaller, it feels more exclusive.

Are JQ30/36 the only Mel to Syd international flights? Interesting that as it makes doing the Mel and Syd FLounges in the same day a real possibility. Such as Adl/Mel/Syd/Lax.

Looks like for Mel/Syd we have:

- Mon JQ3 14:15/15:40
- Wed JQ36 09:00/10:25
- Fri JQ30 14:15/15:40
- Sat JQ36 09:00/10:25

Looks like JQ36 will get a run on my next trip to Lax as it times in nicely with the Air Pacific flight at 13:10 to Nandi and Lax. So Eggs Benedict with a smoked salmon side breakfast in the Mel FLounge followed by Salt and Pepper Squid with a smoked salmon side for lunch in the Syd FLounge. Yes I do like smoked salmon.

AFF and the folks here, willing to share some new tricks, with a old dog, are really making my flying interesting again.

 

[samh004]

Are JQ30/36 the only Mel to Syd international flights? Interesting that as it makes doing the Mel and Syd FLounges in the same day a real possibility. Such as Adl/Mel/Syd/Lax.

There are a few DOM-INT flights and a list in a thread somewhere. I think QF81 goes to ADL and QF19 to BNE.

 

[LiamR]

There are a few DOM-INT flights and a list in a thread somewhere. I think QF81 goes to ADL and QF19 to BNE.

Unfortunatly, QF19 does direct SYD-MEL now. No stopover in BNE.

 

[samh004]

Unfortunatly, QF19 does direct SYD-MEL now. No stopover in BNE.

I'm ok with that, shall have to take a look.

 

[markis10]

Unfortunatly, QF19 does direct SYD-MEL now. No stopover in BNE.

Its direct MNL except for Thursdays:

 

[Lawlass]

Did we end up missing anyone from the list other than Wayne Bourke?

 

[LiamR]

Its direct MNL except for Thursdays:

Ah, I stand corrected. Thanks for that.