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Thanks Tom. I suspected as much!

Sadly, I no longer fly anywhere near as much as most of the contributors to this site, and have become an "old grey beard" who still remembers Lockheed Electras, DC4's and the venerable B707! I am looking for some advice about websites that "offer" big discounts off Business Class and First...

Bad luck about the job, aussiejohn! I already have two sets of the Noise Hush muffs, so don't need any more. I have a heap of Bose stuff in my lounge room, and it is the gold standard of audio as far as I am concerned. I am sure you will get great value from your QC15's particularly at $169...

I haven't had time to read the many contributions to this thread, but assume that some members want to lynch Alan Joyce, some want to beatify him, and some couldn't give a toss! I am 68 years old and was a Qantas International Flight Steward from 1967 to 1969. We flew on B 707's, one or two...

Hi Jetlagger, Yes, we have had Bose audio gear (Lifestyle V Series) in our lounge at home for many years and it is brilliant! Again, pretty expensive, but worth it. I guess I simply don't fly enough these days to warrant spending the extra dough for Bose headphones in-flight! Besides, the...

I bought a pair of these through AFF and tried them out for the first time BNE/SIN/SYD in Economy a couple of weeks ago. I reckon they are brilliant value for the price, and am now ordering another pair for my wife. I cannot compare them to a $399 Bose as I have never used one of the Bose...

I am not really sure why wearing Mountain Design, Katmandu or Anaconda clothing (earlier post) necessarily marks you out as an Aussie! When traveling purely as a tourist rather than on business, this low maintenance style of clothing is the "bee's knees"! In 2008 my wife and I undertook a 21...

I haven't had time to read all the posts in this thread, but may I say that when I was a QF Flight Steward back in the late Sixties, the main collectables were airline pins! Every airline in the world had one, and it was de riguer to wear as many as possible on the hat band of one's official...

Well done, pshepvic! I expected a few clever responses!

Have just received my AFF email newsletter with a link to this thread! Having been a member of this site for a year or two or so, but being these days, an infrequent frequent flyer, I am always amazed at the mathematical contortions and calculations my fellow members will go to in order to save...

I would think that in this age of computers and fierce aviation competition, any airline that does not keep a comprehensive file on all its frequent flyers is a "bloody idiot". Having spent 15 years in the airline and travel business, and another 30 years since then running my own...

Unfortunately, we live in an era where there is so much pretentious clap-trap written about food, that I sometimes feel like going to Hopewood Health Farm at Wallacia and doing a juice fast! If you took all the ludicrous foodie shows off SBS TV, they might have to go back to showing the nudie...

For many years back in the Seventies I was an international travel adviser, and always warned my clients to steer clear of alcohol on long overseas flights. Two reasons for this --- firstly at 40,000 feet you get drunker a lot quicker, and secondly the reduced oxygen at that altitude extends the...

medhead, I have finally succumbed to the temptation and looked up the translation of Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum videtur. You got me, as I am sure you have got many others! The only Latin I remember from the gentle ministrations of the Christian Brothers in 1960 is "amo, amas, amat", which...

Good grief! With itineraries like this it is a wonder some of our contributors are not dead from a surfeit of airline food! :D

Mine too! Two Uni degrees and a graduate diploma! Runs rings around me --- I'm too far behind the eight ball to recognize whether I am being manipulated or not!

Not only are they hard to understand, but manipulative as well, it seems!

Suggesting that SWMBO goes direct while you do your own thing on a separate aircraft is akin to my suggestion to my wife that because she can't sleep in-flight on a lie flat bed anyway, she may as well travel Economy to London while I flew Business. This was not at all well received! Women are...

Hi Katie. It was so damn cold that morning at Villers Bretonneux that it really made you appreciate what our Diggers went through in the French winters of 1915 to 1918! I have a photograph of my wife in her slouch hat and so wrapped up in sweaters, coats and scarves that only her glasses and...

In 2008 my wife and I flew Business Class to Europe with Etihad to attend the Anzac Dawn Service at Villers Bretonneux at approximate cost of $6500 each. Because of a damaged knee my wife sleeps with one knee drawn up. On the skinny lie flat Etihad bed, she slept not one wink to Europe and back...