I was excited to be leaving Avalon airport, Melbourne being that our final destination would be Avalon on the isles of Britain.. Little could I have known that our journey was going to be a bit of a Zig Zag continent hop. My brother has recently started working for British Airways and had nominated myself and our son for staff travel at a hugely discounted price. We knew the risks, at any point we could get bumped off our flight in favour of a paying customer or more senior staff member, but had to give it a go. My brother was able to check the availability and our flight status online and all we had to do was get ourselves  from Melbourne to Sydney to catch the first leg of our British Airways flight. We arrived with plenty of time and caught a bus to the main international terminal, we checked in our luggage with no trouble at all. The flight lasted 8 hours and was very enjoyable, we landed in Singapore about 10 pm local time. This was were things went sour, the flight had sold more tickets whilst we were in the air and we’d been bumped off our second leg to Heathrow! To make matters worse there was no more availability for three days.,  We got some sleep before tackling the problem of being stuck half way around the world. After much talk with Brother by phone, we finally worked out that our best option was a four hour flight to Hong Kong where we could standby for one of two flights leaving that evening to Heathrow.. So we checked out through customs and found a carrier that would take us to Hong Kong,. The flight took us four hours and we arrived with a couple of hours to spare, however we still had to wait to see if we could get on. We caught a bus to the terminal and worked our way through customs and baggage reclaim, by the time we got to check in my son had fallen asleep, exhausted. It was a nervous wait to see if we’d get on the second plane. When they called my name I was so relieved, I too was exhausted and honestly I think I’d have cried had we not made it on.., I can tell you that the free beer on that flight tasted extremely good.. And so we made it to Heathrow,