Nathan's Insights

World Traveller: 7 Continents, 90 Countries, 871 Days Overseas

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  • World Journal – All Trips

    Flight Journal PDF <Updated 26 July 2018 to include Africa 2017-18 trip>

    With a lot of help from family members I’ve now reconstructed my first and second overseas trips from 1986 and 1998 which means I’ve been able to finally compile a listing of all trips.  This excludes any domestic Australian flights, which I’m guessing would be around 580-600 at this point, so positioning flights to Sydney or Brisbane from Melbourne to fly overseas aren’t included.

    I have undertaken 94 flights outside of Australia (2 first, 16 business, 2 premium economy, 74 economy), flying for 549 hours 20 minutes and 417,091 kilometres (259,168 miles) across 27 different airlines. The airport I’ve traveled the most though is Los Angeles (11 times) with Auckland second (5 times).

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  • Lounge Review – Hobart Qantas Club

    ACCESS RULES
    – Flying Business class on a Qantas, QantasLink or Jetstar flight later that day.
    – Qantas Platinum member or Oneworld Alliance
    – Emirates Skywards Platinum member whose next onward flight that day carries a QF or EK flight number and is operated by Qantas or QantasLink
    – Individuals under 18 must be accompanied by an adult given this is a licensed area.

    I accessed the Business Lounge as a QANTAS Platinum member on the cheapest economy fare of the day.  Review is from a visit during June 2017. (more…)

  • Bali (Indonesia) 2017 Post Trip Summary

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    Uluwatu Cliffs

    So I had an amazing one week trip to Bali which was a very different trip to what I normally do. My normal trip is more adventure style tour, get out and visit the historic sights, do a homestay with locals, explore wildlife and the landscape.  This style of travel was something embedded in me since my backpacking days way back in 1999-2000.

    This trip originally started as a great business class deal which I could use to get Qantas Double Status Credits and finally reach Qantas Life Time Gold Status (free lounge access, better ward seats, free seat selection etc) and visit the stunning Qantas Sydney First Class Lounge for the first time.

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  • Bali 2017: Day 7 – Kuta (Bali) to Sydney to Melbourne, Australia

    Wednesday 14 June 2017
    Highlights:      Qantas Sydney Business Class Lounge, Returning Home
    Photos & Videos

    The return home after each trip out of the country is always full of mixed feelings, sadness that your trip is over but excitement to see your home country again.  On this trip it was mostly just the sadness part as I’ve only been away for one week, Bali was full of Australians, and I was traveling with family members.

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  • Flight Review – QF044 Denpasar to Sydney

    Flight: QF044 Denpasar (Bali) to Sydney
    Airline: QANTAS
    Plane: Boeing 737-800
    Gate: 9B
    Seat: 2C (Business Class Aisle)
    Boarded: 21.57 (Scheduled 21.35)
    Departed: 22.20 (Scheduled 22.20)
    Arrived: 06.07 (Scheduled 06.20)
    Duration: 5 Hours 47 Minutes

    This was the return flight of my international trip to Indonesia (Bali) with my two sisters and nieces Darby and Erin and nephew Harry (review QF043 here).  Before boarding this flight I had visited the average Premier Lounge (review here) as a result of traveling in business class. (more…)