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Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🍽️🥛🍲🍳🚰🧼 Thursday, August 22, 2024

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 at least 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.

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jaystephens@mastodon.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
@mysticgreg Yeah if the whole family are flying, no checked luggage, the difference is worth the misery. If it's just one ticket, real airlines ftw.
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Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
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

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- mysticgreg@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  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.
  
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  - Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 . :)
    
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