The totally off-topic thread

[QF WP]

Hmm, I have a video somewhere of a German TV show host showing a video of naked skydiving

And no, please don't anybody post it here - just look at your own leisure or I'll find and email to you :|

 

[markis10]

I wonder if the Lotus F1 team should let webber use their hashtag now : #whereismypodium, 4th 4 times in a row!

 

[TonyHancock]

3:38 am, wide awake and just about fed up with travel.

 

[Mal]

3:38 am, wide awake and just about fed up with travel.

12.38. Hating my job (leaving at end of this week... Contract not renewed). Replacement job ok but pay cut. Much less responsibility and no travel tho.

Id rather lack of sleep in London honestly.

Sent from my GT-I9100 using AustFreqFly

 

[Katie]

My last plate at brekky this morning ..

 

[drron]

My last plate at brekky this morning ..

Katie your diet is starting to worry me!:shock:

 

[Katie]

Drron, you'll be glad I didn't take photos of each of my plates at brekky then! (Orchids Sunday brunch at Halekulani)

 

[markis10]

OK , who broke the Qantas groups IT capabilities:

 

[drewbles]

I am never ever ever arriving into MIA International again

I did it a few years ago and thought the distance to walk to immigration was stupid. Today, arriving from LHR en route to BOS, it was 2.5 hours from de-planing to being at the AA check-in desk. 2.5 hours. That was around 1 1/4 hours in immigration, 15 minutes of finding bags which had been offloaded from the bag carousel and were 3-4 deep all the way around the carousel (there were 6 flights on each of the 8 carousels) and then a 200-300m queue for an hour to go through customs, where the TSA agent was busy chatting up 'hot chicks' and holding the queue up (one agent for the queue, to collect the blue form).

Utter joke. I got to check-in with 4 minutes to spare, and then it took a further 20 minutes to clear the TSA checkpoint, and that was in the First Priority AAccess queue, not the J one.

Never again!

 

[docjames]

I am never ever ever arriving into MIA International again

I did it a few years ago and thought the distance to walk to immigration was stupid. Today, arriving from LHR en route to BOS, it was 2.5 hours from de-planing to being at the AA check-in desk. 2.5 hours. That was around 1 1/4 hours in immigration, 15 minutes of finding bags which had been offloaded from the bag carousel and were 3-4 deep all the way around the carousel (there were 6 flights on each of the 8 carousels) and then a 200-300m queue for an hour to go through customs, where the TSA agent was busy chatting up 'hot chicks' and holding the queue up (one agent for the queue, to collect the blue form).

Utter joke. I got to check-in with 4 minutes to spare, and then it took a further 20 minutes to clear the TSA checkpoint, and that was in the First Priority AAccess queue, not the J one.

Never again!

So you didnt learn the first time?


I've always avoided MIA like the plague (and various other nasty diseases).

 

[whatmeworry]

qantas.com is currently unavailable. We apologise for any inconvenience.
This is a temporary page that enables you to access key functionality.

http://www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au/community/members/markis10.htmlIts a bit annoying when you want to check something out in the middle of the day and QF website is playing funny buggers.

 

[whatmeworry]

Just when I post QF comes back online.

 

[samh004]

Hmm, I have a video somewhere of a German TV show host showing a video of naked skydiving

And no, please don't anybody post it here - just look at your own leisure or I'll find and email to you :|

Very funny

 

[QF WP]

I am never ever ever arriving into MIA International again

I did it a few years ago and thought the distance to walk to immigration was stupid. Today, arriving from LHR en route to BOS, it was 2.5 hours from de-planing to being at the AA check-in desk. 2.5 hours. That was around 1 1/4 hours in immigration, 15 minutes of finding bags which had been offloaded from the bag carousel and were 3-4 deep all the way around the carousel (there were 6 flights on each of the 8 carousels) and then a 200-300m queue for an hour to go through customs, where the TSA agent was busy chatting up 'hot chicks' and holding the queue up (one agent for the queue, to collect the blue form).

Utter joke. I got to check-in with 4 minutes to spare, and then it took a further 20 minutes to clear the TSA checkpoint, and that was in the First Priority AAccess queue, not the J one.

Never again!

Gee, I thought that sounded good drewbles (and yes, I have flown into MIA internationally, then had domestic AA connections).

Were you were bummed that you didn't get a chance to check out the "hot chicks".

C'mon you made it - think of all those additional SC's

 

[drron]

doing seat selection for next year SYD-JNB and downstairs in J no J,K seats appear at all-

	A	B		D	E	F		J	K
	23A	23B	23	23D	23E	23F	23
	24A	24B	24	24D	24E	24F	24
	25A	25B	25	25D	25E	25F	25
	26A	26B	26	26D	26E	26F	26

	A	B				J	K
	11A	11B	11		11	11J	11K
	12A	12B	12		12	12J	12K
	13A	13B	13		13	13J	13K
			14		14
			15		15
			16		16	16J	16K
	17A	17B	17		17	17J	17K
			18		18	18J	18K

Upstairs it is saying only rows 12,13,14 and 17 exist on the A,B side.

 

[Mal]

doing seat selection for next year SYD-JNB and downstairs in J no J,K seats appear at all-

Upstairs it is saying only rows 12,13,14 and 17 exist on the A,B side.

Codeshare. SAA "own" the other seats at the moment...

 

[JohnK]

12.38. Hating my job (leaving at end of this week... Contract not renewed). Replacement job ok but pay cut. Much less responsibility and no travel tho.

Their loss.

My last plate at brekky this morning ..

I hope you did not pay! Either that or the photo is not doing it justice....

 

[LiamR]

Just booked a Qantas flight. Hmmm

HBA-MEL was $450 on DJ, $85 on JQ and $129 on QF.

Now that's just crazy.

 

[drewbles]

So you didnt learn the first time?


I've always avoided MIA like the plague (and various other nasty diseases).

First time was bad, this was like the apocalypse (in comparison at least).

First time we just had to walk probably 200-300m, turn left, and do a 180º effectively, and head back. Then when we hit immigration it was ok from there (and I had no checked luggage).

The extra SC's were definitely not worth it (but the main reason I did it was there was no availability in Y+ on LHR-BOS on the day I needed; the return to LHR is BOS-LHR direct fortunately).

Although the BA leg has credited to QF already, nice and prompt (and a whopping 442 cabin bonus. Stupid Y+).

 

[drewbles]

Gee, I thought that sounded good drewbles (and yes, I have flown into MIA internationally, then had domestic AA connections).

Were you were bummed that you didn't get a chance to check out the "hot chicks".

not overly

C'mon you made it - think of all those additional SC's

Not many really. I believe my booking class on AA was discount whY so it'll only be 20 or so SC's (maybe even 15). Out of the 1200 I need by end of Feb, it's not a huge amount (1.67%). Still, my entire trip is netting me around 450 SC's, so that's over a third of the way in 2 weeks (although the BOS-LHR-SIN-MEL-SYD segment i'm not really looking forward to; even with a 12 hour layover in LHR in which i'm going to end up working).

And yes, I did make it. The Hyatt Regency isn't too bad either