Have a look. Most of it is not about Qantas!
RooFlyer, I was not going to, as I doubt I will learn anything inspiring, but in deference to my esteem of you, I will.....
And yet the JohnKization and Pushkafication of this site is all about clicks, and all the actual useful content gets monetized...
Hang on RooFlyer, as I posted my last thing I saw this comment. What does this mean?? I am struggling to get up to speed and understand it. I love those new terms JohnKization and Pushkafication, truly. But that stuff about monetization of useful content?
BTW, am reading his TR. Will post comments as I go.
Strangely in the first few bits he declared that the LAX Qantas First lounge was his favorite in the USA?? Am confused from the beginning. His favorite USA lounge is run by the airline he considers "worst of the free world"??
He further states that he is in that lounge often due to his BA status - the airline he rates even lower than Qantas??
I love his comment after the first main flight to Australia. After comparing it to AA, he states " If it was just me, I wouldn't fly either of them but go with an Asian or Gulf connection on a real airline."
This intrigues me, as coming from the person who raises the concept of "free-world airlines"
I agree with the misgivings of the bar only opening at midday. Apart from what is probably known here of my love for beverages, I do really think that this is bad. When you travel internationally your body clock is different. I may want a bourbon at 8am. Because it is evening to me. This is something Qantas lounges suck at, IMHO.
Ok, now using up minutes of my life reading about the tassie thing. He seems quite happy with food / accomodation, etc. And also happy to use photos of strangers.
Not sure why the aircraft simulator got so much time. Doing foreign routes in a TR about Tasmania?
I am sure all those myriad photos would be awe inspiring to anyone who had never seen a cliff before, or rocks, or the ocean.....
Am re-reading what seems to be the important part - the lounge experience. Yes, there is cough on the floor. But I have seen that in many lounges at certain times, even though they are pristine at others. But suggesting "Aussies are slobs"?? That is a tad distasteful. As for people "jockeying for position for the slops offerred", my experience of so many USA lounges is that people are jockeying for mere pretzels....
Just trawling through the Hamilton Island stuff - yet again he reverts to living the good life, but the photos and commentary are not exactly inspiring.