grodscorp@grods.comQantas are arse
 | Posted by The Editor on Monday 3 December 2007, 7:53 am Categories: Corporate stupidity, GrodsNews Tags: Tags: airlines, flight, Qantas |
McBec and I went to Sydney on the weekend to help my Dad celebrate his 60th birthday (happy birthday, Dad!) and thanks to the awesomeness of parents flew courtesy of Dad’s credit card. This meant that we boarded a Qantas plane for the first time in ages since our tightarseness usually means Virgin or Jetstar bookings.
On arrival at the terminal one first procures one’s boarding pass using Qantas’ trademarked QuickCheck (sic) machine before joining the bag drop line. No different to the other carriers except in one crucial area: Qantas had a whopping three surly staff members behind desks to deal with the massive line of bag dropping passengers. We arrived over an hour before our return flight from Sydney to Melbourne and I joined the queue in plenty of time but it took so long for the line to move that there was a “final call” for my flight before I’d even dropped my bag.
Then when we arrived back in Melbourne there was a long wait at the baggage collection area before two 767s worth of bags from Sydney and Perth were spewed onto the same carousel (despite two carousels being free just beside it) so 700 angry passengers attempted to elbow, spit and bite their way to the front.
Qantas are shite.
GrodsThink Ep.31 (16/9/08)
