Back to Basics

February 24, 2012 Leave a comment

I started this blog as a homage to the in-flight service from Qantas on my weekly flight from Canberra back home to Melbourne. The genesis was a email that I sent to friends lamenting the service v price ratio and the perceived cost relationship discrepancy.

Well, my life as Punxsutawney Phil has swung full circle and I feel that I have been yanked from the hole again! The Guinness Book of Records sized Éclair is back!

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With all the excitement of the éclair and next weeks excitement where we get to see which toxic parliamentarian wins the leadership ballot for PM, I am keeping this one short. I think I should be PM. There is food for thought.

Happy travel’s

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Qantas goes Guinness and Aboriginal translations

October 24, 2011 1 Comment

Well what a week. The TWU strikes were on and then off but no matter, Qantas struggled on.   And oddly enough all ran smoothly.

I am on the 3PM flight thus week and a meal was not on the menu but a snack was. What we did get was the Qantas entry for the Guinness Book of Records Viennese Éclair.  It got me thinking about that magical 1984 movie Ghost Busters with Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Sigourney Weaver and Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, I can feel seat fever coming on and it in only a 1:20 minute flight!

On another interesting topic, I did some research this week into Aboriginal names in corporate Australia and found that the literal translation for Qantas in ALL ancient Aboriginal dialects is “late or delayed”.  Well they got right!

Home at last and I look forward to next week’s adventure. And the upside is only 11 weeks remaining in Canberra this year before Christmas holiday shutdown.

Stay tuned,

D

7/10/2011

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