Welcome to our blog, here we go... Friday 18th April On arrival at Newcastle Airport waiting in the Emirates queue, having been called to the desk he asked was I platinum, gold or silver member, I think we were at the wrong desk. My facial expression gave him the answer to that question! No complimentary upgrades but we could pay £1500 to upgrade, on this occasion we declined (A lottery win would have been handy). We had our breakfast in the flying hippo and ...