Flying mermaid
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The normally tolerant Flying Mermaid is starting to turn into a bit of a fury and also to wonder if I am jinxed? Had to swap to QF8 instead of QF12 in order to avoid being downgraded to business. QF 8 was due in a bit later than Qf 12, but still fine to make an 8:15 flight. However we didn't disembark until well after 7. Still thought it was doable as travelling First our luggage should come off quickly. Smart gate rejected me and I joined the queue feeling a bit anxious. However that delay wasn't a problem as no luggage in sight. Another F passenger came over to chat - no sign of her luggage either. I think there were 9 passengers in F and so at least 30% had their luggage not come out. I think we finally got our bags after about 1/2 hour - long after economy passengers had strolled off (I know this for a fact as we had quite coincidentally had some people we knew on the flight who were in economy).
No chance of making our business class flight and had to settle for the back of a dash-8. Did still get our chauffeur drive, as a lovely young man in the J lounge phoned and made sure the car hire people in Canberra knew what was going on.
Finally got got to Canberra just desperate to get home, open up the cases, get our contact lens stuff and have a shower. Oh guess what - our cases were off loaded in Sydney due to a weigh problem. I blame Mr FM (and Qantas). He insisted on getting black cases with bright orange bands to make it easy to identify them - I am sure they attracted the baggage handlers attention when choosing cases to offload.
No chance of making our business class flight and had to settle for the back of a dash-8. Did still get our chauffeur drive, as a lovely young man in the J lounge phoned and made sure the car hire people in Canberra knew what was going on.
Finally got got to Canberra just desperate to get home, open up the cases, get our contact lens stuff and have a shower. Oh guess what - our cases were off loaded in Sydney due to a weigh problem. I blame Mr FM (and Qantas). He insisted on getting black cases with bright orange bands to make it easy to identify them - I am sure they attracted the baggage handlers attention when choosing cases to offload.