Oz Fest 17 Brisbane QLD Australia. USA Memorial Day Weekend
Friday May 22, Saturday May 23, Sunday May 24, 2020.
Postponed as
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Oz Fest 17 BNE 2021
Oz Fest 17 2021 will be held in Brisbane from Friday 28th May to Sunday 30th May 2021 (US Memorial day weekend).
The new thread for Oz Fest 17 BNE 2021 will be posted towards the end of
July September October November 2020. In part due the QF announcement of 25 June 2020 that it is not expecting international flights until mid 2021, other than possibly AU-NZ..
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After discussions at the Oz Fest 16 main dinner Brisbane, Queensland has been chosen for Oz Fest 17. Oz Fest 03 (2006) was held in Brisbane, after the first 2 Oz Fest’s were held in Sydney. We repeat the tradition. 28 people attended Oz Fest 03, but we expect more this time. The location of Brisbane will allow easy international & Australian domestic access for many people.
The May USA Memorial Day weekend seems very popular with USA based Flyer-talkers, and that is the weekend that was most favoured by far. Again chosen that weekend - as we have for all other 16 Oz Fests. Around half the attendees are USA based at each Oz Fest. That public holiday in the USA is Monday May 25, 2020. Remember if you leave Australia on afternoon of Monday May 25, you arrive back in the USA also early morning on Monday May 25. A lot of time, no matter where you live in the USA, to get back home, unpack, have an early night, and get organised for a day at work next day etc.
There have been 16 successful Oz Fests so far - in Sydney, (2004, 2005 & 2019) Brisbane, Melbourne, Hobart Tasmania, Cairns, Adelaide, Darwin 2011, Canberra, Perth, Alice Springs-Ayers Rock/Uluru in 2014, New Zealand 2015, the Gold Coast QLD 2016, Newcastle 2017 & Noosa QLD 2018.
The weather for the past 16 Oz Fests has been in general, superb and sunny. Despite June 1st, being our official Winter start date. Even in Tasmania our most southern city, we were truly blessed with unusually nice weather. We all thought Canberra and Hobart would be a weather challenge for sure, but the Saturday and Sunday gave quite perfect weather.
Unusually for Oz Fest we have already have an organising team. Often someone only volunteers January or February. Often they volunteer military style. ozflygirl747 has again volunteered to be CEO (Chief Entertainment Officer) after being CEO for DRW, ASP & OOL. storyteller will look after food & beverage and QF WP the tours. Having 3 locals organising will make Oz Fest 17 one of the best.
A common FT access account for the ad-hoc organising committee titled “Oz Fest (Oz Fest Organisers)” was approved by the Flyertalk Community Director, and the early informational posts here in this thread will show as that account, so they can be edited at will by those involved.
Our ad-hoc Committee will be tracking attendees, and hotels, and flights, and activity sign ups etc in these early posts. These are incredibly time consuming to keep updated, and all attendees owe them a huge vote of thanks. 
Hopefully we can once again call on the falconea’s to be name tag/table tag supremos, and we are well on our way!
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