Your personal travel highs and lows of 2007

[Alanslegal]

Great travel highs everyone, may 2008 brings bigger, better and bolder travel highs.............and hopefully less travel lows.


ps. winetraveller, you lucky lucky man!! I would (and many would) have traded anything to have that flight next to Scarlett Johansson!

 

[Reggie]

Highs,

• Successfully hand birthing 2 of our foals, 1 day apart, where the mothers could not pass them, and without intervention we would have lost all of them.
• Actually being at home for the above.
• AONE4 even though it was only 2 weeks, and one of them was spent in Mt Isa
• Achieving QF LTG
• Standing in and seeing falling snow for the first time (at Denver)

Lows

• Working with lazy and incompetent colleagues
• Waiting in emergency for my wife for over 8 hours
• Soprano's finishing, and the way it ended:evil:
• Waiting at MEL customs for 1.5 hours

 

[drron]

2007 highs-First year of retirement.
-Making explat.
-having 8 family members steal candy.
-being upgraded to F on CX.
-Venice and Rome especially the Cavieleiri.
-AA ticketing,gate and flight staff-if you are going to have problems it is best to be on AA.
-NYC our second home.
-what is going to be a very white christmas in the adirondacks.
2007 lows-Immigration MIA
-the year is nearly over.

 

[trooper]

Highs:

Upgrade clearing from Y+ to Business Premier on NZ LAX-AKL in Feb.. as a "Jade" (base) level FFP member...:!: :shock: :!:

Reaching NZ Gold later in the year... with a quick SYD-AKL-SYD same day turn.. and upgraded both ways....:mrgreen:

Escorting my dear ol' Mum around the USA on her first trip there.. for a month! And surprising her with Y+ and Lounge access...:mrgreen:

Lows:

???? None.. bloody good year!

Heres to 2008.. hope y'all have a beauty!

 

[straitman]

Highs:
Great ATW trip with my wife and attending Heli Expo in Orlando,
Walking around Edinburgh Castle in a snow storm,
Getting complimentary PC Platinum status and then retaining it,
Meeting Randy Peterson,
Oz Fest in Melbourne.

Lows:
Getting a text message from BA whilst at Edinburgh Castle to say flight out had been cancelled and then trying to contact them back,
Trying to deal with PC to get all the points that are owed,
Hilton on the Park during Oz Fest,
Sydney International arrivals,
Perth domestic airport,
Working with some slack and idle wingers at work.

 

[littl_flier]

Highlights:

New York City- vibrant, amazing, energetic!!!

Petting Tigers with the Monks in Thailand

Riding an Elephant and almost not having kids after a baby elephant massage to the groin region in Thailand.

Mount Titlis as we rose through the heavy clouds and fog to the highest point in Central Switzerland and then enjoying the looks on my ex-girlfriend family's face as they played in snow for the first time.

Tubing behind a boat in Arnhem Land when the fish weren't biting.

My first business class experience.

Getting accepted today to study in Montreal next year so now knowing I will definitely get to book the DONE4.

Lowlights:

Coming home from each trip.

Being delayed in BKK after our Jetstar aircraft went AWOL in HNL. Then getting home and waiting four hours in MEL for a QF MEL-BNE flight.

Not sitting next to Scarlett Johannsen on any of my flights.... Or Jen Hawkins for that matter.

 

[Keith009]

Getting accepted today to study in Montreal next year so now knowing I will definitely get to book the DONE4.

Congrats!

 

[straitman]

Getting accepted today to study in Montreal next year so now knowing I will definitely get to book the DONE4.

littl_flier,

Congratulations also. I missed it the first time around.

 

[Platy]

Highs:

• The spectacular collapse of the private equity buy out deal for QF especially after the sickeningly smug endorsements from Dixon and Jackson
• The Chateau Beycheville 1996 red in BA F travelling SYD-LHR-SYD
• Visiting the new SYD F lounge a couple of times
• A couple of unexpected complimentary on departure upgrades on domestic flights thanks to local QF staff
• Flying F to the UK on frequent flyer points
• The OneWorld computer systems awarding me points and SCs for flights I never ended up taking
• Most QF cabin crew maintaining a welcoming and professional presence (despite the public longue lashings from Geoff et al)

Lows:

• QF stuffing up a DONE4 booking
• Departing on Europe bound flights from LHR T4 (priority line and F lounge not open first thing in the morning)
• Increased price gouging (credit card fees, fees to change paid flexible J flights, etc) by QF
• The time and expense of travelling to BNE twice (for meetings and looking for rental properties) to secure a contract deal, which fell over at the last minute due to instransigent client lawyers after a "hand shake" deal had already been struck
• Not sitting next to anyone remotely in the league of Scarlett J
• Missy H officially "coming out"

 

[littl_flier]

littl_flier,

Congratulations also. I missed it the first time around.

Cheers guys! Definitely a highlight of 2007 and 2008.

 

[sr81]

Highs:

• LHR - MEL upgrade to F.
• Making Plat status 7 days before the upgrade and talking my way into the LGW First Lounge without the correct card.
• Making it cross country in one day from YYJ - SEA - ORD - RDU and making it in time for the last 10 minutes of NC State vs. UNC. Go State!
• G & T's on the top floor of St. Mary's Axe with a great long term mate.
• Cairns and that reef!
• The beer pouring machine in NRT JL Sakura Lounge :mrgreen:

Lows:

• Missing Dad's 68th Birthday.
• CX J - Just not as good as I had been led to believe.
• AA Domestic F/J ........ enough has been said about this already.
• Perth Airport - Domestic to International
• The battery life on my blackberry.
• MIA

Thanks to all here, your advice and tips are gold.

Take care in 2008.

 

[Dee Thom]

• The beer pouring machine in NRT JL Sakura Lounge :mrgreen:

UA lounge also has these great beer machines, they may be putting them thru all the Lounges in T1 and T2
Cheers Dee

 

[oz_mark]

Highlights

Two weeks touring Malaysia
Retaining PC plat
OzFest


Lowlights

Perth Domestic
Downgrading from QF Plat to QF Gold
Perth Domestic
Perth International
Perth Domestic

 

[Evan]

Highlights

- Managing to travel 10 days or more with only carry on, best move i ever made.
- Learning from AFF how best to take advantage of products. (eg DAS13) Thanks serfty, simongr, JohnK, and everybody else who contributed.
- Germany & Europe trip was fantastic !
- A great time in KL and found a good steak place
- 6 international flights in 48 hours mostly on QF and treated really really well, including upgrades.
- Discovering ferrys as a means of transport as well as planes

Low Lights

- Perth Domestic (Just like oz_mark, i think anybody who has done this will agree)
- Perth International (Just like oz_mark)
- Some Don-Int transfers at Sydney

 

[Reggie]

Lowlights
Perth Domestic
Downgrading from QF Plat to QF Gold
Perth Domestic
Perth International
Perth Domestic

Hey c'mon it aint that bad:-| , is it?

 

[oz_mark]

Hey c'mon it aint that bad:-| , is it?

My downgrade? I am still coming to terms with it

 

[Reggie]

My downgrade? I am still coming to terms with it

There is no Flounge in Perth, so no loss of access there.

 

[simongr]

• The beer pouring machine in NRT JL Sakura Lounge :mrgreen:

UA lounge also has these great beer machines, they may be putting them thru all the Lounges in T1 and T2
Cheers Dee

And the Admirals club, QF lounge and CX lounge

 

[oz_mark]

There is no Flounge in Perth, so no loss of access there.

Now that is looking on the bright side

 

[parsonstrish]

Very enjoyable reading everyone.

Highs:
3 month o/seas travel on long service leave, still having income coming in (and going out)
all int'l flts on y (of course) and getting all bulkheads, i was happy with this
meeting a little g'son for the first time in England
travel to meet daughter & her family for first time in states
all immigration and customs line short and smooth
no flt cancellations and no delays
seeing 3 broadway plays in nyc
fantastic seat partners on travel, just ordinary folk like me who loved to travel
seeing the autumn leaves changing in england, us and canada, beautiful

i've been blessed.

Lows:
can't afford to travel in '08 darn it.