Yep it seems that thing really do come in threes. We received a phone call from Wendy this evening to say she was informed that our flight out of Hervey Bay was cancelled.
She had organised an alternate flight from Hervey Bay to Brisbane, then to Sydney to pick up the Dubai flight. Wendy received this info by text from QANTAS around five or six this afternoon.
Unfortunately QANTAS has not bothered to inform us, even though they have our phone contacts on record. I therefore rang them earlier in the evening & yes they confirmed our flight was cancelled. We reorganised flights via Brisbane to Sydney as Greg & Wendy did. We were told a text was sent to us a half an hour ago. As I write this 4 more hours have passed & we still have not received the elusive text. Lucky we were travelling with someone who was informed.
Now comes the kick in the pants, after waiting for 4 more hours & still not having received our updated tickets by email (they were due in 30 minutes), I logged on to see if they were updated & yes, there were the new flight times. I then looked closer at the flight details & find the return flight from Sydney has been changed to a Dash 8 from a jet service & thus the flight time extended to 2.5 hours. That should be fun after 21 hours in the air from Frankfurt...
OK I've got that off my chest, now I'm going to enjoy myself from now on or ELSE....
Bags are packed & weighed. bikes are boxed & ready, grass is cut, gutters are cleaned, etc, etc. etc.
Kevin will be here tomorrow morning to take us to the airport. We will be pedalling furiously before we know it.
Well its 9.30 next day.. day of departure. The silence from QANTAS is deafening, Not a word about the cancelled flight & no new e tickets emailed.
Kevin our driver is here to take us to the airport & the home security staff (Lynda) has been briefed.
Were off...........................................
She had organised an alternate flight from Hervey Bay to Brisbane, then to Sydney to pick up the Dubai flight. Wendy received this info by text from QANTAS around five or six this afternoon.
Unfortunately QANTAS has not bothered to inform us, even though they have our phone contacts on record. I therefore rang them earlier in the evening & yes they confirmed our flight was cancelled. We reorganised flights via Brisbane to Sydney as Greg & Wendy did. We were told a text was sent to us a half an hour ago. As I write this 4 more hours have passed & we still have not received the elusive text. Lucky we were travelling with someone who was informed.
Now comes the kick in the pants, after waiting for 4 more hours & still not having received our updated tickets by email (they were due in 30 minutes), I logged on to see if they were updated & yes, there were the new flight times. I then looked closer at the flight details & find the return flight from Sydney has been changed to a Dash 8 from a jet service & thus the flight time extended to 2.5 hours. That should be fun after 21 hours in the air from Frankfurt...
OK I've got that off my chest, now I'm going to enjoy myself from now on or ELSE....
Bags are packed & weighed. bikes are boxed & ready, grass is cut, gutters are cleaned, etc, etc. etc.
Kevin will be here tomorrow morning to take us to the airport. We will be pedalling furiously before we know it.
Well its 9.30 next day.. day of departure. The silence from QANTAS is deafening, Not a word about the cancelled flight & no new e tickets emailed.
Kevin our driver is here to take us to the airport & the home security staff (Lynda) has been briefed.
Were off...........................................
This is hopefully everything you need for 5 weeks
And this is where it went.
Ready to roll..Hope they make it in one piece & find us at the other end.
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