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Daily Discussion Thread: 🍽️🥛🍲🍳🚰🧼 Thursday, August 22, 2024 (aussie.zone)

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[–] mysticgreg@aussie.zone 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I'm doing one of the longest DOMESTIC trips there is in a few weeks and am flying a full-service airline.

I do this trip usually a couple of times a year and have been burned by Jetstar one too many times, pre-Covid I made the decision to just pay the extra and be done with it. Never regretted it.

Some of my family still insist on Jetstar even though they can easily afford the alternatives, and it's a never ending tale of delays, cancellations, lost luggage (on DIRECT flights?!?!), broken seats and misery and tears.

[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

qantas/BA/AA/Singapore economy used to be the same quality as business on other airlines. I haven't flown in a decade so it's probably changed

[–] mysticgreg@aussie.zone 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Best long-haul flight of my life was an Economy Qantas flight 8 years ago, from Sydney to LA in the little 'secret' Economy section on the top deck of an A380. Stalked those seats online and changed ours when they came free a week or so before we left.

It was like Business-lite for an Economy fare. A little section of really only a few rows. Quick boarding, heaps of room, friendly, attentive staff, two-abreast seating so it was just my wife and I with no random third wheel. Made the trip SO much more comfortable.

The return trip downstairs was like being wedged into a cattle truck in comparison.

[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 points 3 months ago

I love flying top deck

I also love flying in small 30 seat embrears

or five seater props that you have to climb in

I just love flying so much . :)