By my reckoning, this time next week I’ll be somewhere over the Australian eastern seaboard, heading down to Sydney for my 16-hour flight to Dallas Texas in the US. I’m fairly certain by this stage I have everything sorted – my tickets are in hand, transportation and most accommodations are all confirmed, which leaves me couple of days to sort out my camera equipment, my one travel bag and the backpack with the electronic equipment like my laptop, iPad and media player.
In finalising my American Airlines US flights, I received a nice little surprise in the itinerary. The bottom of each flight listing was accompanied with large red lettering stating “you are required to pay US$25 for your first piece of check-in baggage at US$35 for the second”. This had me sending a query to my travel agent, who advises that this is the norm with US air travel now. The airlines only want to move bodies not baggage, as is no money to be earned humping somebody’s clothing around the skies. This little “Oh BTW” will probably end up costing me another couple hundred bucks, but what do you do???
I’m pretty certain this week is going live passed really quickly as I’ve got three major projects that I’ve gotta get sorted, as well as cleaning up the server transition from yesterday. Truth be told, I’d but rather be flat out busy than sitting watching the clock – being all antsy in trying to get on the “kerosene canary” plane around 6 AM next Saturday.