Qantas sucks

As the flight was due to leave at 6:00 pm we hung around our private wing in the hotel until midday checkout time. Handed over the bags for storage and went for a wander through Central Park up to the Museum mile on 5th. Spotting seriously expensive looking apartments on the way.

We saw famous museums such as Metroplitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim. Well we saw the outside of them at least - assume that is all that's required to say we've seen them. Using the hop on hop off bus to get back down the avenue (passing a few girls...) we headed back to pick uo the bags. Get in our pre-booked taxi (at 3:30)and got the the airport on time. Checked in and then.... Flight delayed leaving from NY Flight delayed landing in LA Now we have to fly by Sydney 16 hours quashed in between others. No explanation as to why they have stuffed it all up. Just making excuses. Treating us like cattle. My word of advise is do not spend your money flying on this airline. Go with someone who cares. Update: just arrived in Sydney after a very cramped 14 hours in the air. Question: What sort of a person gets into thier seat and lays it back as soon as they can and for as much time as they can? Answer: An inconsiderate, selfish one. Doesn't help international relations when you generally notice people of a particular culture behaving in this way. For the bloggers reference : lay it back if sleeping only. That way everyone gets along and you may find people not so keen to play push button games on the screen at the back of your head. Thanks to our carrier still being useless the flights we were all to connect with in Syndey were missed, then rescheduled, then re-allocated, then seating arrangements changed. This must be costing them a fortune. And the whole shamozzle could have been avoided if the original vehicle had've arrived in JFK on time in the first place. Root cause unknown - however totally over their excuses and inefficient ways of dealing with it.

Sydney is grey, raining and dull. Have transferred from International to domestic and we got to sit around there for 2 hours instead of recovering at home. The trip down was uneventful and obviously domestic. Arriving in Melbourne is always a joy!. Great to see the reintroduction of charging for the luggage trolleys - Now $4!! what a bargain and what a great way to great vistitors to our town - when they are a free service everywhere else in the world. Just to top off a great trip - the luggage took ages coming out - by the time some bags decided to limp out onto the carousel - they had in their wisdom decided all incoming flights should be on the one belt - so the crowd was exceptional. 3rd last bag out before the whole thing packed up (which was obviously due to the person putting them on incorrectly in the first place so they were getting jammed in the door) was ours. So we left to the sound of the PA apologising to the crowd and say their luggage delivery will be delayed pending an engineer looking at the problem. Yay Qantas - great work again! Finally arriving home 32 hours after leaving (with no sleep) we faced the prospect of nicely sanded floors and thus the need to vacuum up the dust over everything and put all the furniture back in place. As well of course of unpacking all those baggs we lugged half way around the world and wash the 3 weeks of dirty laundry contained therein.