The Flying to Oz Meet-Up Thread!

Chet Zar

So...a recurring theme on the board seems to be peeps looking to meet up with others on the long-haul over to Sydney, Perth, or wherever you're going in Oz! I mentioned it might be a good idea to set up a dedicated thread for people looking to meet up with others - and seeing as I've spotted another thread this morning - I said I'd set it up myself.

So, if you're looking to meet up with fellow travellers at the airport bar - state your:

1) date of travel
2) destination

Good luck!

Kmc123

Hi All,

Am heading to Sydney on DEcember 2nd and flying with Etihad, 1 stop in Abu Dhabi then on to Sydney!! Any1 doin the same route on that day?? Can I suggest a possible meet up??

Full.Duck

28th November - 19 days :eek:

Perth

Im all alone and petrified of flying

Balobas87

Ageeeesss away but jumping on the bandwagon here - Dub -Abu Dhabi Eithad 26th March 2012 - stop over and onto Abu - Sydney on the 31st Mar. CANNNNOT WAIT!!!!

Zambia

Full.Duck wrote: »

Perth

Im all alone and petrified of flying

Watch the entire 7 Series of "Lost" you will soon learn large plane crashes lead to tropical desert island adventure holidays.

No worries

Chet Zar

Bump.

mandrake04

Arrived in Adelaide last night..... am here working till 18th Nov.

Full.Duck

Zambia wrote: »

Watch the entire 7 Series of "Lost" you will soon learn large plane crashes lead to tropical desert island adventure holidays.

No worries

If i have to re-enact the whole series of lost id rather die in the crash. Or will i have already have died? Am i dead now? :eek:

res ipsa

Watch Wolf Creek just in case you survive the plane crash!

eoindoyle_syd

Good idea.

In the slim chance there's some Irish going home for Christmas on this route be good to meet up.

Leaving Sydney on 21st Dec at 11am.

Going to Dublin via Paris via Guangzhou, China but......

.....7hr stopover in China
.....4hr stopover in Paris
.....3hr drive from Dublin

Oh joy!

The things we do to get home for xmas.....



EDIT: Didn't realise that this was a flying TO Oz thread....it should be in the flying OUT OF Oz thread...oops

Noo

16th Feb
Brisbane

on me lonesome!

smartblaa

8th January
Arriving in Cairns

Heading on down the East Coast over a couple of weeks.
Gulp, also on my lonesome!

hawesome145

Leaving Sun 15th Jan w Ethihad stopping in Abu Dhabi
Arriving 17th Jan, Sydney
me and the missus,

we're bricking it, we dont know anybody over there!

niva*sis

perth last week in feb :eek:

manlad

Melbourne on the 22nd via heathrow and hong kong. Heading on my own but have sister over there. Just hoping I can land a decent job and start saving some cash to finish my degree:D

zweton

Melbourne also on the 6th March:D

aficionado

Heading solo to Melbourne May 9th, cannot wait!

CyberWaste

will be heading over to near the gold coast in brisbane around end of january, cant wait to see whats its like there

E mc kiernan

Headin out to brisbane on the 22nd january to friends...but travellin on my own!!any one else goin that day??flying out from dublin, london hong kong etc

manlad

E mc kiernan wrote: »

Headin out to brisbane on the 22nd january to friends...but travellin on my own!!any one else goin that day??flying out from dublin, london hong kong etc

heading that day with Cathay Pacific, but im heading to melbourne, might be same flight to Hong Kong.

Attracta Mann

Flying from Cork via Hong Kong to Perth on Tuesday 17 Jan!

JimmyCrackCorn

March as soon as visa clears (457)
Sydney

lippy11

7th of March Sydney bound via Abu Dhabi with Etihad

deisePhil

Lonely Planet's Thorntree Forum is good for finding people to travel with.

Got chatting to a guy on it a couple of years ago and we ended up bombing around South America for 4 months.

www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntree

hussey

skyboy87 wrote: »

hey all im headin 2 oz in march was goin wit a girlfriend whos now an ex but since i have my visa and d money im gona head alone n backpack for a while which will be cul 2 but im easy goin n its my first time headin out so if der was any1 else headin out d same time by themselves could be gud 2 start out wi more dan jst 1 of us, strength in numbers n all dat haha. reply if any1 up 4 it im gud either way!

Mod No txt speak please - as per charter

niva*sis

skyboy87 wrote: »

hey all im headin 2 oz in march was goin wit a girlfriend whos now an ex but since i have my visa and d money im gona head alone n backpack for a while which will be cul 2 but im easy goin n its my first time headin out so if der was any1 else headin out d same time by themselves could be gud 2 start out wi more dan jst 1 of us, strength in numbers n all dat haha. reply if any1 up 4 it im gud either way!

hey
what part of oz are you heading for? im going to perth on my todd last week in feb.

skyboy87

niva*sis wrote: »

hey
what part of oz are you heading for? im going to perth on my todd last week in feb.

not sure yet still havnt made up my mind, was tinking of perth but have nothing nailed down.

Noo

No others for Brisbane so?

Edit: oh wait there is i just can't read properly.

skyboy87

flights and hostel booked heading to brisbane the 13th march!!

Kerry Lad

Heading to Perth 14th of March via cork, London & Hong Kong!! anyone else travelling on this date...

No.3

Two of us heading from Cork to Brisbane via london and Singapore on the 26th of March.

niamhiec

Dublin to Sydney/Brisbane with Quanta (via london -aer lingus) on 1st March

rediguana25

Sydney bound via london 8th March on BA...:D

Flyer1

Anyone nervous about heading out here or getting to know the place i'm usually in Sydney the weekends, drop me a PM. I'm working up in the mines north of here but i'm back down to Sydney on the weekends to work on my pasty irishness.

Loulou1000

I'm heading to Sydney in mid April on my own, really nervous about it. Anyone else going around this time??

JimmyCrackCorn

Loulou1000 wrote: »

I'm heading to Sydney in mid April on my own, really nervous about it. Anyone else going around this time??

Hope its nervous excitement. I'll be there as soon as my visa clears. It should be late march early april.

Loulou1000

JimmyCrackCorn wrote: »

Hope its nervous excitement. I'll be there as soon as my visa clears. It should be late march early april.

It'll probably be nervous excitement when I'm on the plane but at the moment its just nervousness! Totally going into the unknown. Think the main thing I'm worried about is meeting people as I don't know anyone there, but hopefully everything will fall into place when I'm there.

emcollin

Heading to Melbourne on march 6th, on my toberlone!! so excited

zweton

Me too:) Where you flying from?

emcollin

Hi Zweton, Im flying from Dublin to Heathrow to Singapore to Melbourne!! long route I know, but keeping it cheap as possible. I dont arrive in Melbourne until 8th, where are you flying from?

Micktown619

Hey Guys,

Heading to Perth on the 20th of March..

Flying from Shannon to Heathrow
Heathrow to Singapore

Staying in Singapore until for 2 days (Friday 23rd March) when I fly to Perth..

Anyone else going to Perth fancy stopping off in Singapore for two Days for the craic?

limmersgirl

Hey everyone, I'm heading to Melbourne on the 26th March -

Dublin - Abu Dhabi, then a 2 & half hour wait and Abu Dhabi - Melbourne. Going with Etihad. Flying all on my lonesome so I'm half excited, half terrified!

Anyone else going that way??

Toothpaste89

Anyone heading to Sydney late May early June?

zweton

emcollin wrote: »

Hi Zweton, Im flying from Dublin to Heathrow to Singapore to Melbourne!! long route I know, but keeping it cheap as possible. I dont arrive in Melbourne until 8th, where are you flying from?

Hey em, same route only im going from shannon to heathrow:)
We are staying in the same place too:) habitat isnt it?
Booked into habitat for 4 nights and will play it by ear after that,how long have you booked into habitat for? I think flight from heathrow is 10pm or thereabouts! Heres hoping we get some nice weather:)

elleA

Hoping to move to Perth in May! Would like to fly Emirates and will be booking within next 2 weeks! Anyone else heading to Perth around that time?

emcollin

zweton wrote: »

Hey em, same route only im going from shannon to heathrow:)
We are staying in the same place too:) habitat isnt it?
Booked into habitat for 4 nights and will play it by ear after that,how long have you booked into habitat for? I think flight from heathrow is 10pm or thereabouts! Heres hoping we get some nice weather:)

Ha yes staying in Habitat too, ive booked in for a week and going to figure out what to do after that. Yup flight from Heathrow at 10. All ive been thinking is that in 3weeks time I'll be on a beach with a nice chilled glass of wine!!

whitewash

I'm heading to Melbourne on 10th April via Singapore anyone else heading that direction ?

limmersgirl

so there's no-one going to Melbourne on the 26th ish??

buffy86

Hi, juts wondering does anyone have any opinion on best way to fly to Melbourne from Dublin...which airline?? Any horror stories or recommendations (hopefully) to report???
Going there early July!

Ellenanna32

I'm flying to Melbourne on 27th on my own too!!

Ellenanna32

I'm doing the same thing we must be mad... Will be there 2- 13th of april?