G'day all
it's the same in Oz. I fly accross the country for work, to be fair, Quaintass arn't to bad, it makes things better being a Gold FF. I fly to the bush with mickey mouse airlines, they have a new policy of 10kg's per bag!!!!!!! I have to fly with one bag with Quaintass weighing 22kg's and over then split the contents in 3 bags. Helmets in bags labled FRAGILE etc are crashed or left in the rain by Mickey mouse airlines. The return is even worse as we just make the conection from MM airlines to Quaintass. We have to grovel to the QF staff to let our bags be checked in as we make it back in with less than 30 mins so bag check in has closed. 99% of the time we the bags on the QF flights, if not it's a full days travel with shuttle flights to get home.
Bring on retirement