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    Launceston Airport check-in being automated

    Original title was "Launceston Airport Check in". Not a "Q" to be seen! Mind you, as it appears to be an airport issue, it's relevant to Qantas as well. If I dusted off my P1 hat, booked J out of LST and had to elbow through the Jetstar PAX just to get bag tags prior to presenting myself at a...
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    Launceston Airport check-in being automated

    Just noticed thread has been moved to Qantas Frequent Flyer. Strange, I was flying Virgin when I encountered this. It's Virgin staff I have stared down to get checked in by the normal method and it's Virgin I have complained to. I discovered today that it's the airport who's behind this and have...
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    Launceston Airport check-in being automated

    Not only people in wheel chairs. People who are not particularly technology capable, or left their glasses at home. There's always helpful staff buzzing around but it's humiliating to have to ask for help. From my observations to date, I would also say that the space allowed for the kiosks is...
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    Launceston Airport check-in being automated

    Wondering if anyone else is being aggravated by the changes to the check-in arrangements at LST? They have introduced self serve kiosks which is fair enough but they are also intending to abolish all the manned counters, including priority. I do not think I have encountered any airport in...
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    The definitive thread on Qantas IT gripes.

    That's interesting. I've never not had a paper BP. I'd be lost without one. Useful to wave at people in your seat and invaluable to scribble a note on when I find I've no paper in my pocket. Also when folded up, are excellent for fixing rocking tables. I suspect they probably thought you...
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    The definitive thread on Qantas IT gripes.

    Of course, you didn't see his boarding pass. Could have been CL. FA definitely bent the rules as you're meant to be in the seat shown on the BP, at least for take-off and landing.
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    Qantas Platinum One experiences?

    I am constantly fascinated as to how useless this stuff is. Woolies rewards never sends me anything that has the slightest interest to me. Their profiling is apparently totally wrong. Perhaps because BWS gets a good mention, they reckon I'll be be buying all their highly processed rubbish...
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    SYD car hire changes

    I used the shuttle parking last week and they were telling me that it will take two years to fix the situation. I was concerned as I had a 6 am flight and prefer to arrive at the airport by 5 am for this. The shuttle driver told me they clock on at 5 am. As it turned out, it was OK. I arrived at...
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    Airport bag handling video

    I believe the argument is: "The business was in trouble. The new CEO put up a valiant fight, saved everything he could and ensured the workers got their entitlements but the adverse market forces were too much and this once family business, that had traded successfully for seventy years, was...
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    Airport bag handling video

    At least someone did eventually come along and tidy up. Time frame would be interesting. Obviously stuff happens and the other carts would have places to be. Bit grim if the displaced luggage sat out there for a period of time and better if had never fallen off, but context is important.
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    Airport bag handling video

    I find it one of the fascinating questions of life; why makes CEO's special? You can have a CEO who's last job ended with the business going bankrupt but he'll get another job, as a CEO, and earning being paid more in twelve months than many aspire to in a life time.
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    Airport bag handling video

    There was a point I appreciated many years ago. Historically, when invaders crashed into a city and killed all of one gender and raped the other, the people they didn't touch were those with skills. Stone masons, carpenters etc. Currently, most of non-corporate Australia realises that people...
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    Airport bag handling video

    In my younger years , I did plenty of manual handling jobs. For me, you do that sort of work for yourself. If you can't take pride in doing an efficient job, you're wasting hours of your life, regardless of the re-numeration. Obviously, if you're feeling exploited, or otherwise pissed off, you...
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    Airport bag handling video

    You make a very valid point. If a worker determines the quality of service they provide based on their hourly rate, they are doomed to the lowest levels of employment.
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    QF cough about cabin bags

    Curiously, I can't recall ever losing my luggage when it's been a really tight connection. Even though I've bounced off one flight and on to another, with them slamming the door behind me, my luggage has always made it. I think it must be because when it's a tight connection, they rush it across...
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