<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by kangaroo route:
Any more tips and tricks welcome.</font>
Glad you enjoyed the trip -- travel can be wonderful under the right circumstances, but it is often hard to arrange for those to happen. You might check whether F is offered on some of your flights (QF may be down to only having LHR with F service in Europe by then). It is getting fairly hard to find routes with good F service, there are only a handful left. I like CX as an airline in both technical and service aspects and go out of my way now to fly them (if only they flew trans-Atlantic!).