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Just recently did a two month RTW holiday ex BNE. Scheduled on QF15 BNE-LAX, with seperate booking on AA LAX-SEA. Knowing that QF15 can be quite unreliable timetable wise, I made sure our onward flight to SEA had a good margin of error (about 8-9hrs), just in case. Especially as neither of us...

I had the same issue late last year when trying to book my RTW trip. The QF Multi City tool was showing up availability but kept telling me it was unavailable whe I clicked continue. Called QFF and they couldn't see any availability on their system, but could see what I was seeing (ie: QF site...

On the return trip of the flight I mentioned earlier, we ended up doing a go around at low altitude (we weren't too far off from touching down when we started to climb again) at Dubai (Capt. advised it was due to wake turbulance from the previous aircraft). How long in this circumstance (only a...

Indeed, my bad! QF 9 of course (no idea why I had that brain fart!) Thanks though! After around 12hrs of the constant chop, it was quite nice to get back on the ground, even only for an hour or two! So likely then the other available levels were facing similar choppy turbulance so it would have...

I'm a bit late to the party with this one, but here goes.. Flew on 93 9 MEL-DXB late November (around the 19th or 20th or so). Flew across the Bite, over WA and left the western coastline somewhere south of Broome by memory. From the time we got across the Bite and back over mainland Aus until...

Unflrtunately at the time, our only thought was to get to the gate as quickly as possible! Also, not being familiar with MEL meant it would possibly have taken longer (at the time, not knowing later delays at least) than just going for it!

I've done it in less at MEL (flight BNE-MEL, MEL-DXB QF9). Had about an hour connection time, landed 20' late due to holding. The airport had already closed the inside walkway to International so we had to race outside and back in (there were a couple others doing the same on my flight). Got...

With regards to radio protocol, is there a reason for the lack of use of 'over' and 'out' in the airline industry? Is it simply to reduce the amount of radio chatter/length of radio conversations? In the railways, management have a tendency to get somewhat upset if we don't use "correct radio...

Thanks again for the info! Good to hear some info regarding the protection systems between the Airbus and Boeing from someone with experience! Agreed re the 747-8, it seems to have been a "too little, too late" response to the 380. I do have a personal wish that QF would look at heading to...

Thanks for the insight! Does that mean you also prefer the Boeing style 'the Pilot has the last say" over the Airbus "The computers will kick in before the pilot can bend the plane" style (very badly worded, but hopefully it's understandable!). As a lover of the 747 (just something about that...

Evening all, first reply (and only first day reading actually!). Have very much enjoyed this thread, very informative and entertaining! Also shows just how much my industry (railways) has in common with aviation! A question that you've likely had before JB (I haven't ready through all pages of...