Also could be useful for those times that your suitcase (albeit orange hardcase and usually rather unique on the carousel!) might be taken away by another traveller who can’t recognise their own bag or fails to read the incorrect name on the tag - and then they leave the customs area with y...

Yes, I remember an upper deck economy flight, albeit on JAL from Japan to USA. Felt so special being away from everyone else with our own staff and facilities.

This is exactly what happened to me last week. Sitting in row 5 as a Plat QFF, and the ground staff either didn't announce it, or didn't enforce it, for premium boarding, so I waited, until rows 4-10 were callled. And bam, nomlocker space between rows 5 &20 when I got on board. Customer servi...

I have a word of caution, about how well the QANTAS boarding procedure works at the moment. I've just got off a MEL-SYD flight on B737 aircraft. They announce boarding by rows, starting from the back to the front. Because of the crowding at the gate there were people like me up and down the termi...

We landed on QF27 on Monday 16th, and the fee was still definitely being collected at the desk before customs. Maybe we missed it by a day - would be interested to hear what happened on the 17th.