Your personal travel highs and lows of 2007

[straitman]

Very enjoyable reading everyone.

Highs:
3 month o/seas travel on long service leave, still having income coming in (and going out)
all int'l flts on y (of course) and getting all bulkheads, i was happy with this
meeting a little g'son for the first time in England
travel to meet daughter & her family for first time in states
all immigration and customs line short and smooth
no flt cancellations and no delays
seeing 3 broadway plays in nyc
fantastic seat partners on travel, just ordinary folk like me who loved to travel
seeing the autumn leaves changing in england, us and canada, beautiful

i've been blessed.

Lows:
can't afford to travel in '08 darn it.

parsonstrish,

Great to hear the highs, and for the lows I sympathise as I'm not sure about maintaining status either. I'm going to buy a few lottery tickets and see if that works.

 

[JohnK]

Highs

- Visiting my birthplace, albeit for only 3 days, for the first time in 13 years
- Oneworld RTW award with QFF points
- Achieving QF Platinum, first time ever, with return flight from Ozfest IV
- Achieving PC Platinum, first time ever
- Achieving HH Gold, first time ever
- Around Australia award for 70,000 QFF points and flying 717 for first time
- Qantaslink NSW outback tour with lots of bonus points
- Ozfest IV in Melbourne
- Kiwi Mainland DO in Queenstown
- F lounge run with kpc and mal

Lows
- Luggage going missing for 1 week on my RTW
- Unemployed for last 8 months and the possible effect on travel plans for 2008

 

[Mal]

I've got a new low for the year.

Sydney airport/Qantas baggage handlers (I believe) causing my bag to be lost for around 80 hours. It's only the 2nd time in 3 years that Qantas has lost my bag for more than a couple of hours - but both times have been on Christmas Eve. Of course pretty much right up until I got the call to say my bag was due to be delivered, nobody knew where it was, and suspected it was actually at Heathrow. I love Christmas eve/Christmas day shopping for emergency clothes and toiletries etc.

 

[Reggie]

I love Christmas eve/Christmas day shopping for emergency clothes and toiletries etc.

Why, beacuse of all those X-mas presents of clothes etc, that you can claim on insurance.

Or the crowds that avoid being anywhere near.

 

[Hvr]

Well it has just snuck in but here it is.

I had to sit in a middle seat!:evil:

Saturday (22/12) morning. Off to CBR AP for a trip to MEL to do the family stuff and get it over with for another year. Whilst in the taxi the mobile rings and I miss the call. No biggie it happens.

Arrive at the AP, slide in the QF card and the machine starts having conniptions, eventually prints out something that I need to see the GA. So I present and am told that the flight (0840) is cancelled, the the GA says, you haven't been moved to the next flight, and that this is surprising because you do have some status (SG).

After a couple of minutes of computer checking I am on standby for the 1020 flight and confirmed on the 1255. So present to the desk once the 1020 commences boarding and yes they have a seat but it is in the middle, well I have to get there so middle it is . First time for a very, very long time that I've sat there.

Of course the trip home had its problems as well, I was originally on a flight aout 1530 and it was cancelled so after discussion qith QF went for the 1610 flight. It was about 20 minutes late. Still I got a window exit row so no real hardship.

Let's hope my next person trip (to NRT end of Jan) goes without a hitch. Don't really care about the business trips, that's work.

 

[jasonja3]

Great reading all, I hope everyone enjoyed some kind of break over Xmas and the New Year.

High's
-Sucessfully dontating a kidney to my wife last month
-Not having to travel for six weeks afterwards!

-Getting three upgrades in a row to F BKK-SYD on BA
-Being able to stop in Japan many times as part of my DAS13 (Circle Asia)fares and see my brother and family, thanks to work


Low's
-Not being home when I'm needed (That should all change now!!)
-A few other scrapes and incidents that seem insignificant now.....I survived

 

[sr81]

High's
-Sucessfully dontating a kidney to my wife last month

Wow, that puts my F upgrade from LHR in perspective!

Well done and good to hear it was a success. Hope she is fast on the road to recovery.

 

[jasonja3]

Cheers sr81, all is going fantastically well, thanks.