Author: Matt Graham

Matt Graham

Matt was the editor of Australian Frequent Flyer from 2015 until 2025. His passion for travel has taken him to more than 100 countries - with a lot of help along the way from frequent flyer points! Matt's favourite destinations (so far) are Germany, Brazil, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. His interests include aviation, economics & foreign languages, and he has a soft spot for good food and red wine. You can connect with Matt by posting on the Australian Frequent Flyer community forum and tagging @Mattg.

John Borghetti hands over to Paul Scurrah as VA CEO

If You Could Say One Thing to Virgin Australia’s CEO…

As we covered yesterday, there are a wide range of topics that Australian frequent flyers would like to bring up with Qantas CEO Alan Joyce. Australian Frequent Flyer members were also asked recently what they would say if they got an opportunity to meet Virgin Australia’s new CEO, Paul Scurrah. Interestingly, the range of issues … Continued

Alan Joyce standing in front of 787

What Would You Tell Qantas CEO Alan Joyce?

If you had an opportunity to meet Qantas CEO Alan Joyce, what would you say to him? This question was recently put to the Australian Frequent Flyer community. There have already been 100 responses (and counting), with frequent flyers expressing a wide range of different points of view about the way in which our national … Continued

South African Airways A320 cabin

South African Airways Slashes Routes in Fight for Survival

South African Airways will cut many of its international destinations, and all domestic routes except one, from next month. The airline’s flight from Perth to Johannesburg is safe for now, but there will be a schedule change from 1 March 2020. Instead of operating overnight, SA281 will depart Perth at 2.30pm and arrive in Johannesburg … Continued

Over water resort in Male, Maldives

Fly to the Maldives from $558 round-trip

There are currently some very good deals available on flights from Australia to the Maldives, a sought-after island holiday destination located to the south of Sri Lanka in the Indian Ocean. Air Asia and Singapore Airlines both have cheap flights to the Maldives, starting at just $558 return from Perth, or $563 return from Melbourne. … Continued

Wizz Air staff

My $16 Wizz Air Flight

I was recently looking for a flight from Oslo to Vienna, when I noticed that Hungarian low-cost carrier Wizz Air had a flight on sale for 99 Norwegian krone. That works out to be just $16 in Australian Dollars. This wasn’t even a super promotional advance-purchase fare – this price was (and still is) available … Continued

Buffalo Airways DC3 in Yellowknife

Podcast #29: Buffalo Airways

Buffalo Airways is not your typical airline. Based in Yellowknife, Canada, Buffalo Airways operates an incredible variety of World War II-era aircraft including the Douglas DC3 and Lockheed Electra in some of the world’s harshest flying conditions. It’s no wonder Buffalo Airways was the subject of the popular television show Ice Pilots NWT. In Episode 29 … Continued

Buffalo Airways – AIR029

  Buffalo Airways is not your typical airline. Based in Yellowknife, Canada, Buffalo Airways operates an incredible variety of historic aircraft such as the Douglas DC3 in some of the world’s harshest flying conditions. It’s no wonder Buffalo Airways was the subject of the popular television show Ice Pilots NWT. In this episode, Matt sits down … Continued

Flight booking

Booking Travel on a Mobile Device Pays (Literally)

A couple of weeks ago, we revealed how Qatar Airways customers may pay more when booking flights on a computer. That’s because Qatar Airways gives a 10% discount for bookings made on a Smartphone or mobile device. But Qatar Airways is certainly not the only company to employ price discrimination based on the device being … Continued

Crowne Plaza

No More IHG Rewards Club PointBreaks

PointBreaks promotions have been a staple feature of the IHG Rewards Club loyalty program for years. Every three months, IHG Rewards Club would release a new list of worldwide hotels that were available to book at discounted rates starting at 5,000 points per night. Sadly, IHG Rewards Club has discontinued the PointBreaks promotions from this … Continued