On this flight home from Sydney I achieve Qantas Lifetime Gold status.

14,000 status credits.

14,000 status credits means

• thousands of weddings around the world
• 830 flights with Qantas or its partners,
• 1.39 million km travelled,
• 2,140 hours or 89 full days of my life airborne.
• 64 airports (Sydney is my number one, 416 movements),
• 24 countries flown through, to, or from,
• 18 status-earning airlines.
• 354 movements through Gold Coast Airport,
• 222 through Brisbane,
• 183 through Tullamarine,
• 115 through Hobart.
• 446 flights on Boeing 737s, 130 on Airbus A320/321s, 72 on Boeing 717s, and numerous 747, 767, 757, A380, A350, and A220 flights.

And if you don’t know what Lifetime Gold is, it means that I don’t have to try and get Gold status with Qantas anymore, I earn it on the first flight each year pretty much.

I’m expecting there to be a letter from the Queen of the Skies in the mail when i get home. Can 747s write letters?