Recent content by RWJ777

A nice review, thanks Matt. I enjoyed it. Yes, for the price it's not too bad: but having travelled twice in the cabin, I can say the seat really matters. On the first occasion, I sat in an aisle seat in the bank of two near a window and it was a comfortable experience. On the second occasion...

Imagine me having to break news to husband that no alcohol is available on flight?!

Question rather assumes a desire to travel to NZ at the moment!

That would be agonising: the wait times are now so long for pleb (non platinum) frequent flyers and doubtless stressful to have to re-book.

Unless there are (overt) ticket terms or regulations to the contrary, I would have thought that the consumer redress was pretty obvious: you paid Qantas to provide a service; they subcontracted it; the subcontractor failed to provide services; and therefore the trader with which you originally...

Thank you for this. I flew SYD-DPS return Garuda in J a few years back—just as the new service started I think—and was pretty impressed. We got an extremely good price—I think it was around $1300 return as I recall—and sadly I’ve never seen anything like that price again. I guess it was a loss...

I think it’ll be inevitable that drivers will give negative ratings if a tip is not provided. Already I have experienced negative ratings if the trip is deemed too short: as one none too subtly complained to me, ‘it’s only $8 and I have to pay Uber 6 of that, so it’s not worth my effort’. Uber...

Oh thank heavens. hubby and I flew to DPS on a QF 737 in Y last year and it was quite horrific: a domestic fit-out aircraft flying short-haul international. It was a very uncomfortable experience, and neither of us are large folk.

I've done the maths on this: 5 months of fees (with the modified cost) equals $42.15. Withdrawal (rollover to another fund) after 1 July does not attract the withdrawal fee. Australian Super's historic return rate is hovering around 10% per annum. So a $350 deposit would attract a return of...

Hubby must not be an Aussie politician then whose kids seemingly cannot fly at the back ... with the 'other common children'!

If this is an accurate portrayal of Woolies attitude, it is rather symptomatic of why they're doing so badly: poor business analytics. They used to be guns at all this and more recently appear to have dropped the ball big time. The QFF program has been a boon for them -- if their data can't...

The hat was too big for carry on.

As the late John Masden used to say, there are two great cities in the world: Rome and Campbelltown!

It's really quite easy these days to accrue activity: get a Woolworths everyday rewards card, link it to your QFF# and buy at least $31 of groceries. This will give you the activity needed to keep your account active.

Notwithstanding the flight is only around an hour (much less in the air), it still costs a pretty penny, up there with SYD-MEL. I think OP makes a reasonable point.