Qanchor, like you I was a proud TNer but these young blokes don't understand, and why should they, their turn will come soon enough. Like you I miss the mates, flying around on Sat arvo picking up the footy scores, telling some bullsh%t story to the CNS refuellers and seeing if we could beat it back to MEL, and see how it had changed, the steaks at the "Breaky Creek" before they became upmarket, the food at "Phil the Greeks" in DRW and then on to the Officers Mess at the DRW Base and a few at the "Hitching Post". The Great Australian Air Race between the two airlines and the sledging that went with it, it was all bloody good fun, then came 89 and the fun stopped, and we went overseas, and became serious, and then came home after some time and joined QF and it became even more serious, and you sat up in a 747 and looked at where you used to push back and remembered the banter between the LAMES and your crew, the beautiful aircraft you used to fly (especially the 9) and looked at your slides where now sat 2 bars instead of 4 and you thought "what the fcuk" what happened, but would you swap it probably not, the last bit perhaps but not the first, so cheers to all AN and TN people out there, you were part of history of this great country, that no knocker can take away, no other airline can replace, the memories that cannot be destroyed, we were the lucky ones, Amen.
