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Business travel agents are much the same as retail travel agents - it really all depends on the individual you get on the day. My employers use Amex Business Travel worldwide, and I have to say that they vary anywhere between pretty damned useless to exceptional. Some agents will really try...

Welcome to AFF drtribos. I had a very similar problem a few months ago - I'd accrued 80k points from a couple of return trips to the UK, and knew that I wuoldn't fly with them anytime soon, so decided to get something from the reward shop. Had my eye on a 32gb iPod Touch, but as you've...

Nah. Origin charge me a fortune each month for supplying me with electrons, where do you get yours from? :lol:

That's right JohnK, didn't you know they give out Chairman's Lounge when you get your robes now. :mrgreen::mrgreen:

Thoroughly enjoying this section drron! All this talk of schnitzel and wurst (though not the beer), and pictures of local architecture brings back happy memories of several years of living in Germany as a child. Oh, happy days of Spargelsuppe, Zigneunerschnitzel and Bratwurst as long and thick...

Re: The off-topic odd-topics questions you know and love :p 81. An assorted list of unusual flight situations: (a) Take off aborted/retried, Yes. Aircraft went Tech on the runway during take off roll at DUS (b) Landing retried, Pilot didn't quite get it right at GIB (c) Deplaned after boarding...

Booked this one - came out at $469 return in early November for a family of 4 including taxes! Not exactly a cheap long weekend in NZ, but I doubt I'd ever get the 4 of us there any cheaper than that.:D

Just to drag up and add to an old thread..... I ordered an iPod Touch for my daughter's birthday (so a definite "required by" date), which failed to be delivered within the stipulated 10 days. SO with a growing sense of dread, I fired off an email to the help section of the QFF Store. I...

Nice one flashware. I know I've been to HKG a few times already this year, but if it's a free trip, I won't complain!

Pilot and 2 passengers walked away, a third passenger was hospitalised according to the latest on nonews. They should be buying themselves a lottery ticket tonight I think.

I have too. My most recent SIN-BNE on an SQ A333 was one of them, where we had a c.190km/h tail wind over central QLD and were hitting 1050km/h ground speed. Made for a very fast (<7hrs) flight. :lol:

Not really, it's a very well known system, I just have a very peculiar speciality within it.

If it was me, it would be 2 days in Beijing, one to see the Summer Palace, Forbidden City/Tiannamen Square and one to see parts of the Great Wall at somewhere like Simatai (2hrs outside of Beijing). No need to go traipsing up and down for miles and miles, just go for a wander round for a couple...

No, and I was thinking that I would like to meet them until I looked it up on Wikipedia. :mrgreen: Nah. They were just a bunch of p***head football players from Bristol. They'd rip your head off if you so much as suggested that they should join the above order :lol:

A colleague recently described the seat as "feeling like being in a coffin", which summed it up pretty well for me. I don't mind the QF Skyslopes at all, and while I find I'm treated better as a OWE on CX than I am as a WP on QF, my preference is for the QF product.

My thoughts and condolences to those affected by this, and also a hope for a speedy answer as to what happened. Now while this event is truly tragic, I still don't have any qualms about getting on a plane at all right now (at least if I could - currently grounded but that's a story for another...

Perhaps I just have particularly high tolerance levels, but personally if I see someone dressed as a lingerie wearing nun, I don't think "Oooh I'm offended", more like "Bloody idiots". I know people's feelings run deep when it comes to their various religions, but surely one of the first things...

Having another crew member check that the actions you have performed are correct.

IT consultancy. Being very specialised has drawbacks too though!

Yes, I'm still waiting. I've got a couple of QF/CX bookings that should have qualified, but nothing yet.:(