You know you are a frequent flyer when ...

[JessicaTam]

It has been about 18 months since I bought an annual policy (Why pay if there is a gap in flights?) Has anyone else noticed "serious" price increases on the annual policies or is it the fact I'm just getting older? :shock:

Happy wandering

Fred

Insurance for my one month trip was just under half the annual amount, so a no brainer for me.

 

[RooFlyer]

Prices stable last year and this for me ( Covermore personal, which also covers my business travel)).

 

[PaulST]

... You take out annual travel insurance.

Bah that's what DFAT, A Current Affair and Jetstar's facebook page is for...



...you begin your morning rounds (in a hospital) with "Good morning... err... are those Qantas First PJs? Nice, where did you fly? Points award?"

 

[Deleted member 29185]

Has anyone else noticed "serious" price increases on the annual policies or is it the fact I'm just getting older? :shock:

Happy wandering

Fred

I've noticed it to a point of non-renewal of TID. I used to always renew as a matter of course, but now I've taken a closer look at my CC insurance inclusions and have decided between the cards, I'm pretty much covered for my day to day needs. If necessary, I may just buy a stand alone policy but if needed, the annual probably wouldn't have included the necessary bits in any case.

 

[Jeffrey O'Neill]

when you tell firends you flew SYD _ SIN _ FRA _ JFK and they ask why and you say you wanted to try one of the longest first class flights with SQ

Or when you tell friends you're flying SYD - BKK - HND - LHR just so you can try ANA F for the first time.

It's sometimes hard to explain to people that flying at the pointy end helps to make the travel part of the holiday into a fun part of the holiday.

Just reacquainted my love of Dom with TG F on the way home a few days back. Is it wrong to think Krug is expensive vinegar

I do wish more airlines would stock VCLGD. Fondly remember knocking back a bottle of it TPE to BK last year, needing a power nap a much concentration to make it to my hotel after landing The Eva staff were able to refil my glass my glass before i could say no...

 

[PaulST]

when you tell firends you flew SYD _ SIN _ FRA _ JFK and they ask why and you say you wanted to try one of the longest first class flights with SQ

Or when you tell friends you're flying SYD - BKK - HND - LHR just so you can try ANA F for the first time.

It's sometimes hard to explain to people that flying at the pointy end helps to make the travel part of the holiday into a fun part of the holiday.

Just reacquainted my love of Dom with TG F on the way home a few days back. Is it wrong to think Krug is expensive vinegar

I do wish more airlines would stock VCLGD. Fondly remember knocking back a bottle of it TPE to BK last year, needing a power nap a much concentration to make it to my hotel after landing The Eva staff were able to refil my glass my glass before i could say no...

Absolutely! I've just been telling people that I'm away in early December because I'm flying SYD-HKG-AKL-CHC, because I wanted to try Cathay's new A359. My parents are flying directly from SYD to CHC. Sensible (boring) souls. haha

 

[Deleted member 29185]

were able to refil my glass my glass before i could say no...

Was there one in each hand?

 

[RAM]

I do wish more airlines would stock VCLGD. Fondly remember knocking back a bottle of it TPE to BK last year, needing a power nap a much concentration to make it to my hotel after landing The Eva staff were able to refil my glass my glass before i could say no...

were the words 'a number of times' removed for brevity?

 

[Jeffrey O'Neill]

Was there one in each hand?

felt like the FAs had a bottle in each hand and could pour faster than a spagetti wester shoot out

were the words 'a number of times' removed for brevity?

possibly due to posting while enjoying the spoils of my recent duty free of some Mount Gay XO rum. happy to use my 3 amex cards to score $15 cash back each time.

 

[TomVexille]

Just reacquainted my love of Dom with TG F on the way home a few days back. Is it wrong to think Krug is expensive vinegar

Not at all, I have the same opinion of the Dom

More Krug for me

 

[wanderer_au]

You know you're taking it all too far when, as I did yesterday, you go up to a complete stranger at an airport and ask them if it's OK to touch their P1 Q-tags, because you've never seen them IRL before. :shock:

 

[Hvr]

You know you're taking it all too far when, as I did yesterday, you go up to a complete stranger at an airport and ask them if it's OK to touch their P1 Q-tags, because you've never seen them IRL before. :shock:

You need to attend some AFF events and see and maybe even touch a P1 card.

 

[coriander]

.... when even your wife says "what, only three sectors DCA-LAX?" when booking flights.

 

[penegal]

You need to attend some AFF events and see and maybe even touch a P1 card.

Or a few...

 

[wanderer_au]

Or a few...

Stroking multiple P1 items would make me look a bit creepy. No, I've scratched that itch - and the reality of school fees and the mortgage mean P1 is for me but a dream...

 

[boomy]

When you walk in different cities and notice familiar rego plates of cars you previously rented.

 

[Warks]

Crossing a road always involves looking both ways... and then both ways in the reverse direction... and one more time...

 

[TiredOldFlyer]

When you spend hours and hours researching airlines, flights, connections and a/c type and then spend hours and hours and hours to try to find the reg no. of the aircraft chosen to establish the type fitout.

 

[coriander]

You need to attend some AFF events and see and maybe even touch a P1 card.

Alternatively, for only $700 or near offer, you can own your own Platinum One Q-tags:

2 x Qantas Platinum One Q Tags -case and pack NEW | eBay

 

[wanderer_au]

Aren't the q-tags FF member-specific? Besides buying them off eBay is sorta cheating. It's like putting a Rolls hood ornament on a Hyundai or Skoda