PineappleSkip
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Hi all
Well, after 6 months hunting and begging, Mrs Pineapple finally found a place to stay nearby in BNE for Old Mrs Pineapple, who has been in a CBR nursing home. Very short window of opportunity or we lose the place.
This means the ladies pineapple need to fly from CBR to BNE, while Mr P chugs up the Newell Hwy in a van full of boxes.Yee har! Me, my rented hi-ace and all the semis
Meanwhile, old Mrs pineapple has Limited mobility, ataxia, can't stand unassisted, etc etc. No worries, QF will no doubt be supportive and we have wheelchairs organised at both ends. J class seats booked on QF.
Would be quite problematic, not to mention humiliating, shoehorning old Mrs P into rows 2 and 3 with the miserable legroom in Dom J these days. Bulkhead row the only practicable option.
So Mrs P rings QF for 'special handling'. Wheelchair ok, but no, sorry, no way you can preselect bulkhead rows, try getting to the airport early.
WTF? Come early to take a punt on a usable seat, the only thing guaranteed out of that idea an extra excursion to the disabled toilet. So I try the WP line. Same story, sorry, 'seating' have blocked the whole of row 1 (although none of the seats are occupied), can't help, can't do nothing. [visionary moment of 'seating', that faceless QF couch, calling the shots]
Our $&#% bank treats us better than this! QF has made Mrs Pineapple very :evilrickly:evil:!!
What is amazing about all of this is that these are $830 J seats we booked when I now discover VA are offering J seats at $550. And for our flight down with DJ the experience couldn't have been more different. Yes Mr Pineapple, you can use your comp. upgrades, I recommend 1D and 1F. Why thank you, that would be lovely.
Well the choice looks like a lay down misere. Ditch the refundable $830 'no can do' seats and go with DJ. But here's my question. Haven't done DJ CBR-BNE since they had Y+ down the front. Just a sanity check that the VA 738s all have real J now?? Can get a 738 CBR-BNE with DJ, flying J, will this give comparable space to QF J?? Do the ERJ 190s have proper J seats also? With more less space at the very front?
Cheers skip (and Mrs P)
Well, after 6 months hunting and begging, Mrs Pineapple finally found a place to stay nearby in BNE for Old Mrs Pineapple, who has been in a CBR nursing home. Very short window of opportunity or we lose the place.
This means the ladies pineapple need to fly from CBR to BNE, while Mr P chugs up the Newell Hwy in a van full of boxes.Yee har! Me, my rented hi-ace and all the semis
Meanwhile, old Mrs pineapple has Limited mobility, ataxia, can't stand unassisted, etc etc. No worries, QF will no doubt be supportive and we have wheelchairs organised at both ends. J class seats booked on QF.
Would be quite problematic, not to mention humiliating, shoehorning old Mrs P into rows 2 and 3 with the miserable legroom in Dom J these days. Bulkhead row the only practicable option.
So Mrs P rings QF for 'special handling'. Wheelchair ok, but no, sorry, no way you can preselect bulkhead rows, try getting to the airport early.
WTF? Come early to take a punt on a usable seat, the only thing guaranteed out of that idea an extra excursion to the disabled toilet. So I try the WP line. Same story, sorry, 'seating' have blocked the whole of row 1 (although none of the seats are occupied), can't help, can't do nothing. [visionary moment of 'seating', that faceless QF couch, calling the shots
]Our $&#% bank treats us better than this! QF has made Mrs Pineapple very :evil
rickly:evil:!!What is amazing about all of this is that these are $830 J seats we booked when I now discover VA are offering J seats at $550. And for our flight down with DJ the experience couldn't have been more different. Yes Mr Pineapple, you can use your comp. upgrades, I recommend 1D and 1F. Why thank you, that would be lovely.
Well the choice looks like a lay down misere. Ditch the refundable $830 'no can do' seats and go with DJ. But here's my question. Haven't done DJ CBR-BNE since they had Y+ down the front. Just a sanity check that the VA 738s all have real J now?? Can get a 738 CBR-BNE with DJ, flying J, will this give comparable space to QF J?? Do the ERJ 190s have proper J seats also? With more less space at the very front?
Cheers skip (and Mrs P)
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