Recent content by drewbles

As a frequent visitor to the QF lounges in Melbourne, it's great to see they're getting a long awaited overhaul. Here's hoping they're as awesome as the new BNE J lounge (or PER J lounge for that matter). https://www.ausbt.com.au/qantas-plans-all-new-melbourne-business-lounge-qantas-club

Re: 2 x SC for all! (Book by 6th Mar, Travel Mar 17-Feb 19, '18) Anecdotal evidence suggests it may not work anymore either.

Suggest you look on AA's website, it's all pretty clearly laid out there: https://www.aa.com/i18n/travel-info/baggage/checked-baggage-policy.jsp

Good, general entertainment that may have educated some people on general points of aviation as well as related things (such as the EU fuel pipelines). Shame it's only 3 episodes, but they're all quite good. Quite enjoyed them!

I gave up even hoping for a remote chance of a shadow on VA (and yes, i'm WP too). Got very very sick of seeing the entire back half of the a/c with empty middle seats, yet a no-status member shoved in the middle seat next to me (BP placed in literature holder in front/sticking out). Perhaps...

Whilst i've largely had excellent experiences at the MEL lounge, my last visit the other week left me very much so 'meh' about it. I was travelling with some friends and we asked for a refill on our Taittinger (it's always after lunch time somewhere in the world!). When the waiter re-filled...

Re: What the best seat(s) to choose in First class on A380? QF did this to me earlier this year on LAX-MEL, and I am Platinum. Even worse was they took my order, then came back and said "sorry we've run out". As it was the only thing I wanted I said "don't worry I won't have anything" and the...

VA's backtrack on this under the guise of 'We've listened to feedback' quite clearly displays the place zero value on loyalty. If you value loyalty, you reward your highest spending customers with perks. One such perk could be complimentary seat selection. Instead, they decided to nickel and...

For $140, go to Café Vue and have a nice meal. No way is the lounge worth that much. It may be an airport, but $140 will buy you plenty outside in the terminal area.

Or, they could have thought laterally and actually enforced their own T&C's. The T&C's state that fly ahead is only available if the same fare class is available. Up until now, they've simply said 'sure' if there's a seat, regardless of the fare bucket. By starting to enforce this, it would...

I took a 6am MEL-SYD flight earlier this year and he was in 1A. The said "Welcome back, Mr Cam, would you like your usual morning can of VB?" and the reply that came back was barely audible (was quite clear he was having the morning after the big night before). Was in 1A PER-MEL the other...

I have an aversion to losing shiny wallet candy, but looks like my VA WP days are over (shame i've re-qualified through end of August 2017 already). Seems to be a case of adopting a mix of NZ's fare structure and USA airlines pay-for-everything-and-call-ourselves-a-full-service-airline methods...

Don't forget that SC's expire on a rolling 12 month basis, so be sure that the 990SC's you have now won't suddenly make a drop before later in the year.

Judging the over-2200 posts on this thread, QF have failed at the singular most important of customer service... "Under Promise and Over Deliver" P1 has quite clearly been the exact reverse of this. As said, standardise your 'elite' benefits, then over-deliver on them which is pretty much a...

QF changed a flight I have coming up later in the year by moving me from a 1500 flight I had booked PER-MEL on an A330 with J upgrade confirmed, to 1720. I'm connecting out to an EY flight on a separate ticket, and the earlier flights ex-PER are all 737 (booo!) but the super helpful premium...