Recent content by i_hate_the_tulla_freeway

I'm tempted to let my 76 year old mother know but she would tell all her Probus/bowls/ golf friends and before you know it the SYD lounge would be chockablock full of Central Coast "seniors" attacking the buffet like there's no tomorrow and complaining about the Plats taking the best seats and...

All well and good but what I want is VA lounge entry on a Tiger like like QF does with JQ. I positively froth with inner lounge conflict when I'm flying OOL - SYD on Tiger for $39.95 and have to sit it out down at the end gate at OOL watching all you VA lounge lizards stroll out of the OOL...

And I second this. I'm doing the OOL - MEL return run a lot lately and given that I'm allergic to Jetstar and QF only run a skeleton service in/out OOL, I'm using VA quite a bit. The 330 J class service Virgin has over to Perth is terrific but in my opinion, their 737 J class service is in...

Slight side bar but when the ATR's stop, what's going to go on to the Port Macquarie run or is that on its last legs?

The problem with VA is that they are consistently inconsistent. I've had some terrific flights with them and some real shockers, including in J. The youthful skew of their cabin crew is a significant factor. The eye candy is all well and good but there are some afternoons when I just want my...

Re: VA Business class Well, yes, but I'm based in Bowral now (Double Bay with more trees) and the M5 makes the tulla freeway look like a Dubbo backroad.

Currently Syd Dom until 6.00pm and back on QF and status-less. If anyone can guest me upstairs would be much obliged and appreciated

David Flynn... Excuse me for asking (I am not one of the cliquey people on this site so am not in on the presumed in-ness of it all) but are you AusBT's David Flynn ?

Re: VA Business class Everyone got them without asking the other night on a delayed east - west flight. As it turned out, didn't even crack the plastic bag and left it behind. And a big shout out for the chocolate raspberry brownie with creme fraiche. Nice FA brought me three serves. Would be...

Last night (Wednesday 27.01) the computers crashed between approx 5.45pm and 9.45pm at the VA terminal in Sydney. I made it through by about 10 minutes but after that people couldn't check in, change flights or board. Eventually they started manually checking in pax but it was a slow process...

Well, I'm off to Perth tomorrow night ex SYD in J for the princely sum of $780 after an upgrade me bid. Barely any status credits but as I'm saving $1200 on the published J fare, I'll live without the credits. I plan to get money's worth and discreetly and tastefully demolish supplies of...

On a plane today reading the Oz, there's a story about the redevelopment of TSV airport terminal over the next year which will include two (2) airport lounges, so VA might finally be getting a lounge up there in 2017. Or it might be a perpetual work in motion, like HBA. (TSV pax will be...

Hello, could a a regular traveller on QF up in north QLD please advise if QF Dom has self serve bag drops at either TSV or CNS airports ? Thanks

This in interesting to know. One of my pet hates about flying in and out of Adelaide is that whoever you fly, it's a dinky 737. One of my 2016 New Year resolutions was to abandon Virgin and come back grovelling to Alan's airline after an affair lasting several years but becoming very average...

Hobart Airport right now. Would happily comp people but instead paying $9 for a glass of rebadged Gossips Sauv Blanc and soaking up the atmosphere of the departure lounge. Lovely.