Yay – Asha and I are going to Paris today! After lovely Pete dropped me off at the airport, I waited for Asha to join me. Once she arrived, we checked in, but no luck with getting seats together. We were both perplexed at how we could book and pay for our tickets in September 2009 and both be on the same itinerary, but not be seated together! A mystery!! The unhelpful British Airways check-in woman said she’d try to get us seated together – hmmm doubtful, but still hopeful!
Next stop customs with a couple of thousand other travellers and then finally on to the International Qantas Lounge for some celebratory bubbles and snacks. Much to my delight they serve Chandon! Not a bad drop! Yippee!!
When it came time to board we asked if we’d been moved to be seated together, but still no luck! Evidently you can now pay additional to select a window or aisle seat hence why we were no longer seated together. We’d apparently been bumfed by another??? So we had one more shot of sitting together on the flight from Sydney to Heathrow via Singapore, and that was to appeal to the good nature of our fellow passengers.
Victory at last! A kind woman from the UK agreed to swap with Asha so that we could sit together.
We stopped over in Singapore for a short and then back onboard for the 13 hour leg to Heathrow! Time to eat and then sleep! Evidently the Premium Economy seats are meant to recline a little further, but I disagree. They are a little roomier and we did receive awesome service from our cabin crew. But when it comes to sleeping on a plane, you do what you need to.
We landed at Heathrow at silly o’clock AKA 5.30 am. Woo Hoo we’re almost there! And I must say that the BA Lounge at Terminal 5 was pretty good. And we saw CDRE Peter Lockwood (?),UK Defence Adviser/Head of Australian Defence Staff there as well - small world!
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