It's not that I had no choice other than to sit down in the main part of T1 at Melbourne. I have every right to be sitting up in the QP. But the fact is I am down in the main terminal to excape the hussle and bussel of the QP. Let's look at it for a second. In the QP I can get a free drink (but really only one as I'm driving when I get back home), and then try and find a free seat. the food is minimal (non-existant is more like, once the seagulls have swammed) and it ...
Yesterday I did a day trip to MEL. Nothing unusual about that as I do them a couple of times a year without fail. But what made yesterdays trip different was for some reason my mobile internet (with 3) had issues. I had no problems with it in CBR both before I left and after I got back, but for some reason whilst in MEL it just all fell over (long periods of no internet connection at all, and when a connection was established it was so slow it made a 56K modem look fast). ...
I was just thinking I have been fairly grounded this year. With only one trip so far (an O'Nighter to AKL)... However my next week has now completely changed... I've pushed back my meetings next week here in CBR, and will fly over next Monday morning to PER via SYD (A330-200 - here is hoping for AVOD)... Coming back again very early on Wednesday morning (B767 via MEL, leaving at 0:30), to make my meetings here in CBR at 11:30. I probably won't place up a trip report (although I will ...