Hi All,
I always enjoy reading trip reports; I've also gained a lot of useful information from this site over the last few years. I thought it was time I gave something back by writing about my own recent experience.
It's basically going to be a written (no pictures) report. I didn't take any on the planes, I find it not it my nature to pull out my camera on board, although I really appreciate those who do and know that many find text reports boring (feel free to move on to another thread now). I wasn't planning on uploading any from the USA itself but I'm more than happy to elaborate on any part of the trip that is found to be of interest (if there are any).
I plan to give an outline of what actually happened with a significant dose of my opinion, so all of your opinions are welcome in return….
Any trip needs some background so here it is:
This was a leisure trip and all came together due to SWMBO (but wasn’t….at least as far as travel classes go) and her family’s plans. Basically it had three separate travelling groups arriving in Orlando at the end of April for a week at Disney World and surrounds. The family would then go home and SWMBO and I would have another week, which we planned to split between Washington DC and NYC.
Due to work I could only allow two weeks of leave, which left me on a shorter trip than my partner and led to some of the interesting events to follow.
Basically we ended up with SWMBO having her own ticket (in Y) leaving 5 days before me, and I had bought a QF sale business fare (ticketed in I) with my own flights over and on the same flights together back (but in different classes, upgrade lottery in place of course).
As you can see this is already leading towards the making of a disaster, as we will see on the return legs, but you’ll have to wait for that frivolity!
So the all important routing was as follows:
PER-SYD-LAX-DFW-MCO 29th April
MCO-DCA 6th May
DC-NYC (train) 9th May
JFK-LAX-MEL-PER 12th -14th May
As a brief aside; my partners’ flights over to DTW went pretty well. JQ PER-MEL was useless as it was changed no less than three times by JQ in the weeks leading up, although she got there in the end. MEL-LAX-JFK was all on QF and the upgrade gods smiled the whole way! Business right through and suddenly it seemed like I might be doing OK in the relationship stakes….maybe it would work out just as well on the way back…. Or maybe not?! The shuttle from JFK-DTW on delta was apparently non-eventful
Anyway on to my trip………..
I always enjoy reading trip reports; I've also gained a lot of useful information from this site over the last few years. I thought it was time I gave something back by writing about my own recent experience.
It's basically going to be a written (no pictures) report. I didn't take any on the planes, I find it not it my nature to pull out my camera on board, although I really appreciate those who do and know that many find text reports boring (feel free to move on to another thread now). I wasn't planning on uploading any from the USA itself but I'm more than happy to elaborate on any part of the trip that is found to be of interest (if there are any).
I plan to give an outline of what actually happened with a significant dose of my opinion, so all of your opinions are welcome in return….
Any trip needs some background so here it is:
This was a leisure trip and all came together due to SWMBO (but wasn’t….at least as far as travel classes go) and her family’s plans. Basically it had three separate travelling groups arriving in Orlando at the end of April for a week at Disney World and surrounds. The family would then go home and SWMBO and I would have another week, which we planned to split between Washington DC and NYC.
Due to work I could only allow two weeks of leave, which left me on a shorter trip than my partner and led to some of the interesting events to follow.
Basically we ended up with SWMBO having her own ticket (in Y) leaving 5 days before me, and I had bought a QF sale business fare (ticketed in I) with my own flights over and on the same flights together back (but in different classes, upgrade lottery in place of course).
As you can see this is already leading towards the making of a disaster, as we will see on the return legs, but you’ll have to wait for that frivolity!
So the all important routing was as follows:
PER-SYD-LAX-DFW-MCO 29th April
MCO-DCA 6th May
DC-NYC (train) 9th May
JFK-LAX-MEL-PER 12th -14th May
As a brief aside; my partners’ flights over to DTW went pretty well. JQ PER-MEL was useless as it was changed no less than three times by JQ in the weeks leading up, although she got there in the end. MEL-LAX-JFK was all on QF and the upgrade gods smiled the whole way! Business right through and suddenly it seemed like I might be doing OK in the relationship stakes….maybe it would work out just as well on the way back…. Or maybe not?! The shuttle from JFK-DTW on delta was apparently non-eventful
Anyway on to my trip………..