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Monday Dec 10, 2018 #
6 AM
Swimming 36:00 [2] 1.0 km (36:00 / km)
Yet another day trip, Canberra this time. With an 8.30 departure decided to drop into Coburg for a swim on the way there. This turned out to be a rather scrappy swim, in a crowded lane with people who were all going significantly slower than I was (and some of whom were walking, notwithstanding that there was a lane marked specifically for walking next door). Never felt as if I got going properly.
That was a scrappy start to a scrappy day; booked on Virgin for the first time, I got to the airport to discover that they'd overbooked the flight by the small matter of 25 people and couldn't get me onto another one until the afternoon (which wasn't much use when I was speaking at 1pm). Fortunately the department's travel agent was able to book me on a Qantas flight 30 minutes later at not much extra cost. It seems hard to believe that they would overbook a flight by that much just to cover possible no-shows; maybe I'll get an explanation if I can be bothered writing them a letter of complaint, having ascertained that they've breached at least two of their stated policies. (My guess is that they might have been trying to route people booked on a cancelled Brisbane flight through Canberra). In the EU they'd be up for 250 euros; Australian consumer protection law is some of the weakest in the developed world.
And then the bus driver in Canberra closed the door on me. The day got better after that.
That was a scrappy start to a scrappy day; booked on Virgin for the first time, I got to the airport to discover that they'd overbooked the flight by the small matter of 25 people and couldn't get me onto another one until the afternoon (which wasn't much use when I was speaking at 1pm). Fortunately the department's travel agent was able to book me on a Qantas flight 30 minutes later at not much extra cost. It seems hard to believe that they would overbook a flight by that much just to cover possible no-shows; maybe I'll get an explanation if I can be bothered writing them a letter of complaint, having ascertained that they've breached at least two of their stated policies. (My guess is that they might have been trying to route people booked on a cancelled Brisbane flight through Canberra). In the EU they'd be up for 250 euros; Australian consumer protection law is some of the weakest in the developed world.
And then the bus driver in Canberra closed the door on me. The day got better after that.