I am flying lax-syd on the 2nd of Jan with my mother, girlfriend, brother and his girlfriend, dont ask long story. I am silver on IB and gold on AA, im a few thousand miles short of reaching plat on AA again this year. Last year was plat aa and gold IB. I called QF as my agent put me on the lower deck, they had 3 seats left on the upper deck and my Gold AA (which isn't much) got me and my gf on the upper deck.

The look on my mothers face at check in will be priceless, she is very controlling and when I travelled with her before always wanted to sit us in a row. Not this time.