Recent content by jpp42

This has been my experience also. The staff member I travelled with was a little unsure, but checked the rules and couldn't find anything banning it, so they agreed to be guested into the lounge. It was domestic so they didn't scan the guests' BP, which the staff traveler was relieved about...

It's hardly "strict" - there's no possible way they have to enforce this, it's not like they are searching your belongings upon exiting India for contraband currency exports, unless you're some kind of international money launderer and they have a tipoff. However, because it is officially...

Dang, too late to make that joke. Does show that Qantas Loyalty was more about being a retailer than anything else though.

I've had lots of small schedule changes like this and my understanding is that as long as it doesn't cause problems with minimum connection time (MCT) to other legs, it will not require a re-ticket. There might be an issue if a schedule change causes a date change (i.e. 2355 changes to 0005 the...

I don't agree with this, I had a large heavy tool that was rejected by airport security, they didn't say exactly why but I suspected because it could be used for blunt force trauma. I had to go to the landside luggage shop and buy a new suitcase to check it in.

You're going to Indonesia, right? Please confirm your destination so we can help you best. The passport hotline for Australia probably can't tell you for sure whether Indonesia, or whatever specific other country, will accept your passport or not, especially without seeing the damage...

What did you do to sweet talk the lounge attendants? In my experience they strictly follow the rules, i.e. you won't get access unless your ticket if QF-coded. I've had two trips through NAN post-Covid as QF WP.

I've never booked a fully flexible fare, but are you saying the app doesn't allow you to rebook those using a similar interface to the flow forward? As far as flow forward for non-flexible fares, revenue management and operations staff must be continually at odds with each other about this. I...

I didn't say they are dropping their liquids bans, more that they are relaxing the additional inspection at the gate (in airports where there is already a centralised security which bans outside liquids as normal). For example, I recently flew FJ, SYD-NAN-LAX, and there was no gate security...

The funny part is that the US doesn't require this any more for US-bound flights, and neither the UK to my knowledge, and they're the ones that started the whole liquid and gel hysteria back in 2006: 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot - Wikipedia . I don't know if Australian authorities...

It's nothing new, they've been doing this since the A380 introduction. Each new fleet change is an excuse to create more entities, more agreements, and further confuse everyone, all in an effort to lower the average pay.

Here's an article about EML: https://www.edisongroup.com/research/storing-up-value/28051/ If I interpret that correctly, EML has already been the supplier of white-label services to some stored value cards, but partnered with Heritage Bank to issue them in Australia previously, perhaps because...

I'm not across the details of why, but the whole international transfer sector seems to quickly be moving to an array of non-banks, with newish players like Wise, Revolut, etc offering modern products with much lower spreads than the industry had been accustomed to. Whether Qantas takes the...

I spend enough time with my colleagues (whether it's work colleagues or travelling for international aid, which I have done also). Unless I was specifically trying to use this time to get some discussions done, why would I care if I sat next to them? I'm mostly going to be reading, watching...

That's definitely not the case today. Five years is a long time in technology, there have been plenty of upgrades since then for all the major carriers.