simongr
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"We've come a long long way together,
Through the hard times and the good,
I have to celebrate you baby,
I have to praise you like I should"*
Well that is really what I would like to be singing abut QF - an airline I have had about 60 flights on over the past couple of years, an airline I know intimately and depend on to provide me with transport, comfort, security and rewards. Sadly as we all know the gloss on the QF shine is not so shiny of late - a malaise has crept into the frequent flyer dissatisfied with the offering, the promises and the tweaking. A frequent flyer who feels that they just aren't trying to make things better.
A harsher critic might say that QF are just trying to polish a turd (although I am not sure who the turd is) but I feel that at its core QF is a good airline with a strong tradition with a strong sentiment around it. Having said that though another airline seems to be trying harder to entice fliers - but it has to do this - it is smaller, has smaller market share, and it needs to woo people so tomorrow I am ready to be wooed.
In this report I will try and compare my experiences of a fairly standard SYD-MEL-SYD day trip as a DJ/VA Platinum flyer for booking to getting home. I have factored in extra time to experience the lounges in SYD and MEL and am doing the flights no differently to how I would do the flights for QF.
So we shall see by Wednesday (I don't plan to finish the trip report on Tuesday evening after a 16 hour day) if I have anything to celebrate...
*Copyright Fat Boy Slim - Praise You
Through the hard times and the good,
I have to celebrate you baby,
I have to praise you like I should"*
Well that is really what I would like to be singing abut QF - an airline I have had about 60 flights on over the past couple of years, an airline I know intimately and depend on to provide me with transport, comfort, security and rewards. Sadly as we all know the gloss on the QF shine is not so shiny of late - a malaise has crept into the frequent flyer dissatisfied with the offering, the promises and the tweaking. A frequent flyer who feels that they just aren't trying to make things better.
A harsher critic might say that QF are just trying to polish a turd (although I am not sure who the turd is) but I feel that at its core QF is a good airline with a strong tradition with a strong sentiment around it. Having said that though another airline seems to be trying harder to entice fliers - but it has to do this - it is smaller, has smaller market share, and it needs to woo people so tomorrow I am ready to be wooed.
In this report I will try and compare my experiences of a fairly standard SYD-MEL-SYD day trip as a DJ/VA Platinum flyer for booking to getting home. I have factored in extra time to experience the lounges in SYD and MEL and am doing the flights no differently to how I would do the flights for QF.
So we shall see by Wednesday (I don't plan to finish the trip report on Tuesday evening after a 16 hour day) if I have anything to celebrate...
*Copyright Fat Boy Slim - Praise You