Recent content by Danielb56

What I find frustrating is that now thy are talking about a new Covid outbreak. I'm sick of hearing that and hey should stop testing and panicking people, otherwise mask wearing will become part of the necessary items you take on a plane....enough is enough.

Between my me and my wife we still have 1million points between us...can I transfer them t another airline...getting sick of Qantas lack of care for customers...they want you to be loyal but they never reward loyalty...I get better service from their partners...I only book what is necessary...

I hear you and many people will do the same...

I think this is typical virtue signaling rather than a real change. One of my issues around any new initiative is who pays. If we go back many years whenever any new incentives i.e the Model T Ford. It was Fiord who paid for the initiative and not the government (i.e. us). If any of these...

This has been one of the best deals Qantas has done in recent times for its customers overall.

Alitalia is going in October but a new airline will take its place- ITA With many of these airlines going under during Covid, I think we will eventually see new ones replace them over time...

I'm with you on this. Firstly, the way countries and our state premiers (except NSW) handle 1 breakout with a massive lockdown I have no confidence in making any bookings just yet. Secondly, the announcement from Joyce is simply a marketing ploy to bring back 'confidence' even though he is at...

Hi. I just posted something on Qatar and an incident I had there where I was detained for 3 1/2 - 4 hours on arrival back from Europe. I had a 3-4 night stopover in Doha. They sent me from one room to another without a word for over 3 - 4 hours. In the end the top Immigration official spoke to...

My issue here is that the UN should be saying something and bring Qatar to task on this matter but as usual they are a useless bureaucratic monolith that sits on its hands and does absolutely nothing. In 2016, I was travelling back from Europe and had a 3-4 night stopover in Qatar. On arrival...

I ended calling Qantas yesterday to enquire why my tax/cash has not been refunded for the 2nd flight. I ended up calling Qantas yesterday (29th Aug) about the 2nd refund cash payment as it has been over 12 weeks. The lady did not know why it has not been paid but acted on it immediately and...

Early last year my wife and I flew Business on Emirates to Cairo and off memory the points were in the low 100k. I think somewhere around 115,000 (approx.). When I tried booking flights late last year for our intended trip to Greece and Italy (Sep-Oct202) I noticed some changes -1. It was more...

I have received points on two separate flights that I booked around 9 weeks and 10.5 weeks respectively. But I have received the cash refund after 12 weeks from the smaller and cheaper flight and still waiting for the refund for the larger cash flight which is still around 14 weeks now.

This was back in the early 90s. I was flying Syd/Man/HKK on Philippines airlines. The flight was relatively good until about 2 hours out of Manila. We hit a massive storm - rain, wind, lightning etc. The turbulence was pretty bad. We just had dinner and I needed to go to the bathroom as the FA...

My wife and I last year went to Egypt on Emirates Business Feb 19. We then later in 2019 (Oct/Sept) tried booking business for Athens and Rome return but found Emirates few and far between for Business. This was way before Covid started suspect with the changes to Carrier charges maybe Emirates...

I never saw this as well. The reality though is that the reduction in carrier charges are not properly offset by increase in points. The latter costs us more than the reduction when you do the calculations. It was interesting though that when my wife and I booked (Sep/Oct 2019) reward Business...