Agree with all that....not to mention it’s 17 hours in the air from California just to get there.
No thanks 👎
I did eight hours to and from Europe, packed in like a sardine. I enjoyed the flights, because I always have a window seat and I like to look around. I saw the Eiffel Tower, Normandy Beach, three of the Great Lakes at once, vast miles of Canadian wilderness, the town of Penzance, and green Irish countryside, all from the plane window.
Seventeen hours is another matter, especially if there are a bunch of psychos at the other end of the flight who may decide to never let me leave, based on the whim of whatever nutjob is in power at the time.
Australia is off my bucket list. The kangaroos will have to get along without me, somehow.