Recent content by bryanjones

A lot of Corp policies have changed to premium economy for legs (not trips) over 8 hours, and business for 12 hours. Obviously seniority has a play and you won’t see many VP’s of large orgs down the back

So to report back from 11 Jan PER-LHR. Flight time was basically right on schedule landing about 5 mins past scheduled arrival. I happened to talk to one of the captains who said there were about 200 pax on board, so there must have been some great winds because nowhere near the 90 less then...

I am on tonight’s QF9 out of PER after coming across from Sydney. No QF person has mentioned anything yet, will report back after I land in LHR to see if there are any noticeable dips in pax numbers or any type of announcement on the flight

The duck went very nicely with the Brokenwood Pinot - the Viogner desert wine was quite nice as well

Absolutely avoid BA business class. It is premium economy plus. Book Cathay or Singapore airlines and you won't be disappointed...

Perhaps. Awards need to be seen to be achievable (e.g. I am just on an upgraded business ticket now) but it is not in qantas interest to have points over real money. That said, I'm still waiting for when the QFF scheme is moved to a more tax "friendly" location - then QFF will value points much...

Airline pricing/revenue management is a dark art - its priced just right in this case for some to buy it if they otherwise wouldnt. You can argue with the wife whether paying that much for business is worth it - but she will surely agree that paying that much for first is worth it. Yield...

Wow - champagne and pure blonde in the same thread! I'd go QF first, then if you get bored wander over to EK

Park Hyatt if you want an epic location and pay with points. Or if you are rich. I burned some points when I had some Hyatt status and had great rooms for my parents and I - was an experience that not many people get. I also like the Intercontinental or Marriot for location but have not seen...

Probably best she doesn't tell you that BSL is also known as EAP or MLH, being Basel/European airport/Mulhouse...

Thanks, I was wondering if there was special date or routing to make BSL work? The OSL ones I know and it is rare to get cheap OW from Switzerland. A recent example.... on Tuesday I fly one way to BLR, could have started from GVA or ZRH. GVA was 2150 CHF whilst ZRH was 560 even though both...

When would one want to be in Basel to start a flight, this would be a new routing for me...

Generally economy rewards are not good value for points. Maybe best to just buy cheap economy...

I wouldn't risk it - sometimes you can leave on board sometimes not. Why not just buy the wine at dan murphy's and put it in your checked luggage...

At least they could do the rate limiting/Captcha stuff pretty quickly. It took 2 of the sites in the video only a couple of days, and being in computers myself I can't believe that its such a big task for the remaining airlines, etc that have access to GDS to do the same. GDS should make it a...