Only three weeks till Christmas and I only have one page of bookings on my Qantas schedule or 4 legs to be more accurate. It has been a gruelling 6 months in the tail of the “sprit of Australia” but with the holiday season almost upon us, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel and it is shinning bright.
Looks like Sid has been busy again pressing the buttons to punch out hundreds of thousands emails sprooking the benefits of bonus points up till Christmas. I noticed that the points are being sold to us as “BONUS POINTS – QANTAS 91ST BIRTHDAY”. Does that mean that the shut down was not to force all the parties to Fair Work Australia but ensure that ALL the staff could attend the 91st birthday celebrations. That is so thoughtful of Alan. I can not believe that the unions got so unhappy about the parties!
I regularly watch, with only a passing interest, the news on the flight. It’s a grab of the main stories from Channel Nine delivered as a “special presentation” for Qantas. This means that Mascot have strict editorial control aka, no negative press about the Irish, Qantas, Jetstar or the airline industry in general. This editorial espionage also extends to the weather, the weather I here you say!. Who would have thought! Take Africa for example, It is a massive continent, with some 56 countries, a plethora of cultures, the cradle of modern man and a population of more than a billion but the Flat Earther’s from Mascot can only find Johannesburg in the south. If we move onto Europe it is only marginally better. Think Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Poland, The Benelux countries, Spain, Portugal, and Austria to name a few. In the eye’s of Qantas, none of these places exist. Not even the original Flat Earther’s were this naïve, ok that is a stretch but you get the idea. When Magellan sailed from Spain with 5 boats into the unknown he crossed the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans and although he personally did not make it past the Philippines, what was left of the rest of his fleet made it back but what they did show was the Earth is round. If you want on take on the Asian and Middle Eastern airlines, you are going to need more than 4 ports in (2 code share’s) in Europe.
Qantas – we fly everywhere in Europe as long as you want to fly to London or Frankfurt!
Happy Travels and I have a final push for the year, next week I am in Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne. Woo Hoo!
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