Recent content by Sabot

Your grievance with declining the UT is totally reasonable.

Not to derail the thread but having been there recently it's going to be a while before I'd bother to go back.

Sounds like you're projecting. Imagine buying a completely new set of scrubs so you could take a locum shift in a different hospital.

People actually want to go to France for things other than work.

No one outside of European scaffolders wants to go to Perth. An extra 4 - 5 hours per trip? Yucky.

At the end of the day mate, flying is transport. People like to wank on and on about the benefits of various frequent flyer programs but ultimately, unless you're flying private it's just public transport in the sky.

We need to keep the dream alive.

Overcoming the technical limitations is simply a function of time, there is an inflection point in terms of aircraft speed and efficiency where ULR direct flights will have a transformative impact on major hubs. It is coming, it's just a matter of when.

I expect people who want to break their services up will end up flying smaller regional airlines between hops. It's simply the availability of flights to current hubs (Singapore and ME) that will reduce as stops become unnecessary & uneconomical. It will be interesting to see the impact on...

This is 100% correct, the future is ULR aircraft transiting direct to major airport hubs and I look forward to it. Qantas are at the forefront by virtue of our isolated geography. Not having to stop in Singapore or the Middle East is going to be awesome.

I've come to the conclusion that the executive lounges are actually worse than the Qantas Club. Some of the behaviour I have seen in the last 12 months leads me to consider whether being diamond is worth it. I'm about half way to LTD.

It's an utter disgrace already as it is, they need to be moving in the other direction.

Worst part of public transport is having to share it with the public.

Very sad to hear. Hopefully this won't be the end of competitive stages, I have been very keen to build a car recently and it would be a shame to have the event reduced to regularity. I need another R32 GT-R in my life.

That is a very green banana!