<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by SemiElite:
Nightflyer,
Actually if you want to wallow in luxury, intl. FC is the way to go! Concorde is for the experience, not for the luxury. Yes, the luxury is there, but only for 3 3/4 hours.
No, it's the experience! Being slammed back into your seat upon take-off, seeing the curvature of the earth at 50-60K feet, knowing you're one of a small minority of people to join company with Chuck Yeager flying at Mach 2...knowing you're flying higher and faster than anyone else other than jet fighter pilots and astronauts, and feeling the heat of friction against your window!
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Now that it's too late, I WANT THE EXPERIENCE!!!
It looks like we may miss out on both counts--it's too late for the Concorde and First Class on QF for May doesn't look very likely. We have submitted four different date/itinerary ranges so far, and they have all come back with availability in Business but not First.
I finally told them any available date and routing between May 3 and May 28 would be OK, with a stay in Australia of approx. two weeks--just so it was in FC. So what do they do? Outbound on May 3, return on May 28 in business! I called back and told them this was not an option, and I could tell I was on the verge of getting a "difficult customer" note in my PNR. The agent told me that Qantas was pressuring them to "resolve" this reservation.
I was just thinking about forgetting the whole thing for May and putting in a request for next fall, when she told me that CO is thinking about discontinuing the QF First Class Reward because they have had so much trouble getting it.
So now we can't fly the Concorde and and we can't fly QF in FC, and our May vacation time is rapidly approaching. Any suggestions?
(Sorry, I didn't intend for this to turn into another tirade about CO and reward availability.)