This picture shows our poor old Scarebus A380 going no where.

As there was nothing happening tonight we decided not to wait in the long queue to find a hotel and go get one ourselves. We found a cheap hotel a few blocks from LAX airport. Plenty of beer and bourbon in us so we easily some sleep while the others searched for something much more luxurious. Its not going to be easy at  2:00AM boys.. who needs a choice of pillows at that hour. We took the best option, we  didn’t have to sit and wait with 500 whinging and unreasonable  Qantas travelers and we didn’t end up in the ‘special’ (and we mean ‘special’)  hotel like our friends  found an hour away, it was much better our own 90 bucks and move on.

The story of whats happening is a bit sketchy, the ground crew dont really know whats going on.  We see another Qantas 380’s land this morning and it too is grounded here at LAX.

We still have no idea when we will be moving. the internet news suggests a 747 is being organised… The Australian news sites seem to know more than the ground staff here. I would doubt we would all fit on so it might be an extended stay.

They eventually announced that they had found a 747 to take us home, looking at it, I think it came from the aircraft graveyard.

**Footnote to this story, Qantas sent us a $600 voucher for all awful the pain and suffering they put us thru..mmm stuck in the first class private lounge eating food and drinking free beer and bourbon… The tragic hardship we will take many months to get over.  Life’s hard, now we need to work out where our free holiday will be!    Only real issue was my luggage came home two days after me.