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Japan is the home of the bento and the one cup sake. Lack of inflight service is a feature not a bug.

I’m still waiting for a bunch from early May, a ways to go until the 8 weeks are done.

This is the way to travel. I also highly recommend shipping a mixed case of sake to the airport to max out your luggage allowance. Kimijimaya in Ebisu station were very helpful in this regard.

Bag tracking - I have no desire to know that I haven’t got my bag with me until I get to the end of the trip. Sure I’d love not to stand around belt unnecessarily, but until then there is absolute nothing I can do about it. Group boarding - waste of time that is designed around monetising...

I slept from wheels up to 30mins to landing. The breakfast trolley was coming by when I woke and managed to grab a coffee and some kind of Indonesian breakfast pastry, a sort of deep fried empanda with a spring roll filling. A good snack to get me as far as the lounge and connecting flight to...

Well yes, also I wouldn’t have got a good night’s sleep without knowing my trip home was going to work. Adding to the stress was the fact I had a CGK-SYD-MEL ticket on a separate booking to catch.

Saturday afternoon I’m on the train south from Yorkshire and check into my LGW-DOH-CGK flights (BA and QR sold as QR). After check in I notice that BA2033 is delayed by a little under 2 hrs. I chat with BA and they say it’s still within the MCT. By the time I get back to London it’s now over 3...

Cover kale in butter and garlic and it’s great (TBF cover anything in butter and garlic and it’s great) Tonight (May22) CGK-MEL. No review though, I’m going straight to sleep.

I think I wrote it on another thread, however if you access booking.com from the BA shopping portal you can get 8avios/£ on hotels, which keeps me topped up on QF flights.

Note the rates are often not the cheapest available and no, you won’t get an Australian tax invoice. Booking.com currently earns 8 Avios/£ on hotel stays through the BA shopping portal. You can pay at the property and get a tax invoice there, plus access the same rates as everyone else. Not...

I have used booking.com and other online TAs to get itineraries that aren’t achievable on airline websites, or to use things like Amex points as cash. eg. Some JAL itineraries with Tokyo stops are hard to achieve with the JAL booking engine but booking.com or Expedia. I expect them to be...

It’s on Audible, although i have to say I have US audible so YMMV. there are two readers and I prefer Patrick Tull to the other one, but its very subjective.

I know I have griped about this before, probably in this thread, however I just flew GOT-LHR with BA this morning. Boarding pass nicely showing on the Lock Screen when I woke up to get to the airport. I did AY LHR-HEL-ARN as well and the right board as was always available at the right time. No...

If the second airline is JAL, it works, every port, every time. (Datapoints are AY to JAL, QF to JAL, AF to JAL), obviously jal only works as well. If you take too much time at Tokyo immigration then the priority bags will be taken off the belt and lined up in order of status.

This seems like an excellent idea.

Mostly I leave them unopened or hand them back. I always bring everything I need in flight and don’t like the waste. If I have need for the pouch I will keep it. I’m very annoyed I just lost a Finnair one which was the perfect size for my cables and I carelessly mislaid.

Today 6/5 QF41 SYD CGK Absolutely top notch crew, very well lead by CSM Andrew. I could tell I was in for a good flight when I went to the bathroom shortly after takeoff and one of the crew was trying to smooth the creases out of the tablecloths to make them more presentable. Everyone did a...

I’d be keen to check out the sake scene in KUL, Singapore I have sampled but would be good to see what you guys have. I know of a couple of QF cabin crew who come to sake events in Melbourne and share a deep sense of shame about what qantas serve in j to japan (ozeki). I think the best...

A lounge is about making somewhere you don’t really need to be pleasant for the time you are in there. If we could waltz from the train/Uber/bus to the plane without stopping and with certainty that we would get where we were going, I’m sure most of us wouldn’t spend a second longer in the...

The qantas app has had a button for this on OW bookings for a while. So qantas IT is ready to eff this up when it does launch.