Flying from Oz to UK - do you have a preferred airline?

[Archduke]

Hi there am booking flights from Oz to UK for a 2 wk trip in Sept/Oct with 2 kids.

Have previously flown Singapore or Malaysian air, but am thinking of Emirates this time.

Has anyone flown with Emirates? Are they ok? Worth the extra $300/ticket??

My Dad has really struggled with my son's diagnosis, he is very old school and no nonsense, just couldn't handle it at all. Steam trains have really brought them together though and they go off on trips together with their ruck sacks and itineraries that my Dad Has printed off for them. Sounds strange but they've brought so much happiness to us as a family and when ds was younger helped us to communicate with him by sharing his interest in them. We went to see Thomas at Didcot a few years ago and the A4 Pacifics at Barrow Hill last year. To see my son who struggles in most areas of his life, so confident and knowledgable on a subject makes me so happy and other adults are at his knowledge, which makes me so proud.

I adore Disney too .

Well I got a business class upgrade with Emirates when I. Came back to the UK in 2010...twas amazing and I am forever spoilt for future trips (we have since been back with DTDs)

Nicki, I do think some of the older generation struggle. My granny certainly did and it was only when doing a family tree I found out her dad had died in a psychiatric hospital way back in 1919 and I wonder to this day what it was she'd seen and heard.

Im loving your dad and your son going off together and I completely understand how the trains have brought loads of happiness to your family. Its the same for us.

Two years ago we made a trip to Llangollen for some enthusiasts weekend and it just so happened my son had been asking for sheep wool, and could he shear a sheep. Right I thought, there's plenty of farms in that area so Im google some and ask a farmer if they have a spare sheep needing sheared. Everyone I contacted was very nice but there was one bloke who seemed really excited by it all and because he was close by the railway I organised for us to go to him. My dad was coming with us and when I told him where we were going he was dumbstruck then spent a lot of time saying, are you sure? Anyway it turned out the guy we were going to is huge worldwide when it comes to breeding Border Collies, and sheep herding, and my dad was a huge fan of is and has all his books. Anyway, off we went and we still laugh at how Dado got to meet his hero because of DS. He now calls my son MrFixit now, and DS still has some of the smelly stinky sheeps wool in a box in his bedroom.

Our kids are fab