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Again sitting in 5K gave me the distinct sense of lot of tables being set and food being delivered around me before I got any attention. Eventually my table was adorned with linen and cutlery and my starter of spanner crab, pork and green mango salad was brought over. I switched to the semillon...

The flight was called for boarding in the lounge at about 14:30. I headed directly below to gate 10 to see the usual QF boarding mess in progress. They’d already called up PE by that time - bear in mind the upper deck of an A380 (plus SG and above) is probably close to ⅓ or even ½ of the...

And so it begins Flight: QF1 ETD: 15:10 ATD: 15:30 ETA: 21:30 ATA: 21:30 Seat: 5K AC: VH-OQB I was a little disappointed not to get a phone call or email from the Qantas First host team the day before departure, until I remembered that when I booked this OWA the email address associated with...

In my two experiences, no immediate response. But issues were resolved within about a week. Once confirmed with an email, another time via a phone call from Hobart

I’m not seeing much sampling of Riesling despite it (arguably) being the variety most associated with the Clare Valley. Wines by KT is my new favourite Australian winery after stumbling across (and staggering out of) their tasting room on the Main Street of Auburn. The service there was...

Catering on this flight was crowd-pleasing cheese and crackers. Not particularly substantial but there aren’t all that many people who would object to this particular snack. I wasn’t paying enough attention to what was happening in row 3 to hear what the options were in J this afternoon...

Old school (2 lane) priority boarding was done effectively at gate 18. Though they pre-boarded a group of 40 or 50 Japanese school kids before clearly and emphatically calling up business and status pax. There must be something in Japanese DNA. Those kids zipped through the BP scanners in a...

Departure Day … sort of … Home is on the edge of a village on beautiful Bundjalung Country, a 45 minute meandering drive inland from Byron Bay. I woke to a cloudy but relatively mild Northern Rivers winter morning and peeled back the curtains to breathe in the beauty of the World-heritage...

Welcome @PlaneHopperPal. I wholeheartedly agree! I’ve said it before on this thread (or one similar) and I say it again: IMO QF are over engineering what should be a simple process. Limit the ridiculous amount of cabbin baggage people bring on board and ensure that the current priority boarding...

The tasting notes of the Queen Adelaide Moscato are hilarious!! I hope MNL isn't too painful for your departure experience. At least flying J you won't have to contend with too much chaos at the checkin counters.

Great tip! Thanks astrosly for the pointer and Matt for raising the issue. The uber notifications have always bugged me too.

Prelude 1022: Hi, I received a notification of a schedule change to a flight as part of a classic award booking. I’m calling because a couple of flights on Malaysian and Sri Lankan have dropped off my booking because it wasn’t reticketed in time. Agent 1: Sure I can look into that for you...

Thanks SYD. This is reassuring!

I’ve given up on CMT and deleted it. I am off on a OWA (+extras) next week. I’ve loaded my flights into TripCase and will see what happens. TripCase has always been good at alerting me to VA delays and disruptions. Not sure if it works as well outside of the Sabre ecosystem…

I encountered this exact scenario recently. Wanted to look into EK F flights in or out of STN for the "Gamechanger" 777 product on that route. STN isn't recognised by the QF booking engine and I value my sanity too highly to call and subsequently be fobbed off/lied to/hung up on. Then just...

Nothing is showing as bookable on those dates, so must be some sort of charter. Though I would have thought charters would have a four digit flight number. I wonder if they'll be lumped with the A380 in the old config. (Assuming this is indeed operated by an A380)

Ugh "Tag's" (sic) 😡 as per the pic, not your post SJF211!!

Tremendous trip report. Thank you Skyring for bringing us, so evocatively, on the journey with you.

I’m flying QF1 in F in a couple of weeks! Fingers crossed for properly chilled champagne!!

Do the new kiosks in Darwin actually have a check in function or have they rolled out the same ones as SYD and MEL where their sole purpose is to print bag tags? No kiosk check in at those airports and just one or two understaffed counters in the corner for international connecting check in...