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Unexpected good - GREAT! - news on the delayed bags. Finnair refused my claim as it was past 21 days of the event. Duh, I was just trying to enjoy a holiday and didn't want to deal with BS of insurance. QF bounced me to AY, stating it was the last carrier that had to stump up the compensation...

Yes. They wipe it off with a towel. Personally never had an issue with residue.

787 bins are huuuge and I don't think you'll struggle sharing

Thanks. We'll probably do the East Coast USA route with AA, I wasn't sure how the friendly folks employed by Homeland Security treated you when arriving from that part of the world.

All We need to get from Quito in Ecuador to Las Vegas in May 2025. I see we can do Copa via Panama, various via Miami and others. Are there any concerns flying into the US by any particular country? I don't really want to be interrogated at the US border for a poor decision. No real criteria...

Lowly WP. SCL-SYD mid-May 2025, 4 dates, 2 x J. Computer said no despite J sale on offer. (Luckily we had approved SYD-SCL in April 2025 last month) LAX-SYD, LAX-MEL, DFW-SYD, DFW-MEL same dates, same pax. Computer said yes. All approved on request, not sure what the RRP fare bucket had in it.

Yeah resembled a milk shake when the FA first poured it. I should have done the Pacific ale but I really wanted a Boags lager.

QF145 Syd- Akl Absolutely the best CSM ever on board. 3 choices - pork, beef or chicken. Went the chicken salad. Was all very tasty too. Served with a salmon lettucy thing, cheese and choccy Proving that pouring beer at 30,000 feet is an art Matched the cheese with a Shiraz

Qf145 today. Booked basement Y, 8pm last night randomly checked app and saw my upgrade had been successful.. so 2D here I come. No upgrade available or requested. First time ever being upgraded. Wonder if it is a result of a different flight booking made 2 days ago? And bonus points for...

Agreed. Eggs Benny this morning were cold and hard. And we were offered someone else’s pancakes.

The one time I had a facial about 8 hours into the flight my eyes started to ache and burn. I thinks the treatment stuff reacted with me. It didn’t make me look like Tom Cruise as requested.

Wildlife is our thing. Done Antarctica, the Arctic and planning Galapagos and Botswana. Pictures are all taken on a iPhone 13. I have $10,000 worth of camera stuff with a lens as long as your arm and I continually am amazed what an iPhone can do. Seriously ask why I have a 12Kg backpack full...

Appreciate it. I'm just paying back. Without this forum there is no way I'd be flying business class anywhere and I'd still be thinking I was cool when I hit Silver once. Heck, our first OS trip we thought we were pretty neat and killing the system by paying something like 64,000 points each to...

Homeward bound - LAX First lounge and QF11 We left the hotel at 5pm and got to TBIT not long after. I had checked and there was chat about an early check in counter being open. This was true, and they had all classes being accepted. Being one of them Platinum types we went to the front and were...

A spare day in L.A Straight outta inta Compton After a decent sleep we wandered down to the temporary breakfast room. When I booked they did note renovations were in progress but should have been finished by our arrival, a statement that proved to be Fake News. Breakfast was actually served in...

Mid flight and LAX arrival (ugh) The flight was quite smooth and uneventful. Watched the one movie, played some hangman on the iPad and tried to read. Couple of beers and wines and water. Around Fort Collins or 3 hours out we started with the light meal service. I went for the Buddha plate...

I have some experience of that. Coming up in the last flight.

On the plane - Up, Up and Away Boarding was easy as it was mostly First and Business people on the first bus. My only gripe, and I believe it valid as a WP, is that the First class people have someone guide them from the door to their seat, I guess in case they get lost on the way. Anyway, all...

British Airways BA 281 LHR - LAX - 777 with J suites; The Lounge experience and the boarding debacle. I was looking forwards to this, for two reasons - Never been on a 777 and wanted to see what the J suites were like as the only other BA flights we'd been on were A380 with the god-awful 4...

Flight Bucharest to Heathrow - BA885 J Class We had the flight from Bucharest to London included in our RTW itinerary. We had spent a couple of days in Bucharest before flying out and with the flight departing at 0835 and some differing opinions on times from front door to airside, we hopped in...