Recent content by DrJ

This enhancement is an absolute joke given that there are 3 fully loaded redeyes leaving PER in the late evening, and the lounge is usually a zoo at this time.

At MEL for an unexpected breakfast yesterday after QF9 became the much earlier QF209, only one Champagne was on offer. Is this the new normal?

Managed to talk my way in at BNE a couple of times when I was SG, but that was a few years ago now. Nothing to lose by asking though!

What, female pilots aren't allowed to enjoy the beach? She's very covered up anyway, was over in Noosa a week ago and lost count of the bikini clad women and bare chested men walking up and down Hastings Street...

A bit meh compared to the more recent offerings, though it may grow on me - nice to see Nestor get the credit he's due though with a starring role, and indeed some of my favourite places are featured. Dialogue unremarkable though, regarding soundbites, really can't see any memorable ones...

Since upgrading the iPhone, they have rejected my images as too large. I now need to email them to myself, downsizing them to "medium" in the process, and then copying and pasting these revised images in.

BNE J lounge for another hour and 10, but have two of my boys with me so guesting privileges used up. They are doing well by Dom lounge standards today, the beef lasagne from the former cantina was better than average, and the hayashi beef punched above its weight with far more meat in it than...

Rare leisure trip with my 2 oldest boys. The forecast was dire yesterday, but fortunately they got it totally wrong and the Sunny Coast lived up to its name. Will never get tired of coming to Noosa.

Can only assume it's a cost saving measure, so they're not left with an open half full 750ml bottle at the end of the flight (though if I were stuck in whY, would be very happy to help them out with that problem!) Shame though, always feel champagne /sparkling tastes better out of a full-size...

QF932 PER-BNE 738 (what else) Jan 12 sched 0600 actual pushback 0610 (baggage delays), takeoff 0618 (21) First flight of the year, this trip mostly for leisure for a change! Unfortunately the lack of PDB and printed menus continues into 2024. Good flight if a little bumpy to begin with...

No. Except for the situation of pax arriving from MEL on QF9 who are continuing on to LHR (who are funneled through a corridor back to the Int departures area), on arrival you are sent down the escalators to immigration and customs, and then dumped landside like every other Int terminal in...

Oh yes, AJ would be sleeping with the fishes now ;)

QF653 SYD-PER Mon Oct 23, 332 Sched dep 1945 actual pushback 1958 (waiting for Int connections) takeoff 2008 ( 34L) Nice to be back in a J pod after a very uncomfortable flight over in Y on a 738. No PDB offered, not even a water bottle in the basket next to the headphones. Nonetheless...

Good to hear that VA are doing better, some decent competition from them is the only thing that is going to get QF to lift their catering game on PER flights to something approaching pre 2020 standards...

I'd forgive the lousy spelling if they had come up with an alternative Champagne. Surely they can raid the stocks of Jacquart / Duval Leroy they serve in J? The worst thing about the otherwise excellent EK lounges is their short opening hours.