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Absolutely ripoff prices for tickets. J class on a QF737 from Bne to Pom return is $7350. Air Niugini wide body 767 plane is $5200! Go figure!

A train pathetic I am....but the price of the Aussie "luxury" trains is even more pathetic. However I did have a win, a big win.. Always wanted to go to Longreach to see Qantas museum and Stockmans' Hall of Fame, and come back on the Spirit of the Outback. I booked the latter months ahead...

Even better, wearing first class pjs AND carrying a flute of bubbly, smiling benignly. Only problem is you might be pelted with plastic glasses!

my "best" on the A380 is when you saunter down to the shared lounge in your 1st class jarmies and one of the attendants follows you with "your" personal bottle of DOM which you nonchalantly imbibe as all the business chaps are drinking the cooking Moet and glowering at you!! This was after a...

MY FIRST CLASS TRIP....WITH JUST A TOUCH OF WHIMSY!!!! I have just returned from my first first class experience....BKK-HGK by Emirates, HKK-SFO by Cathay, return SFO-DBX and DBX-KUL both by Emirates. The trip was made using 389 000 QF points and around $2300 in taxes. A once in a lifetime...

It's called being green with envy...I usually swan down the back with my jarmies on and a tall flute of champers in hand......but then the peasants throw plastic glasses at me!!:lol:

Living in Bangkok, I often went to Hong Kong for the weekend with Emirates in J class. Most times the flights there and back were great because as soon as the seat belt sign went off, we made a dash to the inflight bar and stayed there, the inflight dinner being singularly unattractive. However...

Having accumulated 2 million QF points over the working years with no redemptions, now it is my turn to blow them in retirement. Living in Kuala Lumpur, I am booked MAS J (OMG "J") to BKK, then EK F to HGK and CX F to SFO. AA F to Tacoma, Alaskan cruise disembarking in Vancouver. YVR-SFO on...

I'm with Leadman. I live in Malaysia.... Not even a form to fill out when you arrive or depart. I go to Cambodia, Vietnam and Myanmar frequently...one whole page for a visa every time you go. My super dooper passport fills up after 2 years, and when I apply for a new one, there is always a...

Another secret thrill is to ask for a champagne on a flight leaving early in the morning....but so as not to appear too much of a lush to fellow travellers, confide in the stewardess that you would like it disguised as a mimosa.. Thereafter, the ratio of champagne to orange juice increases...

After dinner, getting into your Qantas jarmies, and with a full glass of champers in hand,wandering down the back to see how the less fortunate are faring .....but I'm always terrified I will be pelted with plastic cups, glasses and bottles

I am going on the QE2 on a Black Sea cruise in October which lands in Ukraine ports amongst others. Hold an Australian passport and live in Thailand. Australians need visas, even though we are only landing in Ukraine ports for 2 day trips. Cunard will not let me travel unless I have a visa...

Since I retired 6 years back, I really do not know how I fit everything in. Have a brilliant apartment in Bangkok but I'm there for a maximum of 3 months a year. I'm off on the slightest pretext....usually no planning, just on a whim. I tick the boxes sometimes - 140 countries and...

Best: Bhutan....if you haven't seen the firedance of the naked monks, or climbed to the Tiger's Nest temple then you really haven't lived. Worst: Port Moresby. I lived there for 10 years. Ye gods!!!

Planning our first One World RTW 1st class (so cheap in those days) the TA advised that BA was offering free upgrades on the Concorde. We knocked it back because we figured out the flight was so quick, our champagne consumption would be a lot less than the normal 747 flight. Shhheeeeeeet