Recent content by wanderer_au

Rem report got absolutely slammed today. 83% No. Board mood right now: Finch has got a reverse-Midas touch, doesn’t he? Can you imagine what Hudson is thinking.

I’m a member of one of those clubs, a fairly regular attendee too, and the only prominent current company director I ever see there is Roger Corbett. Most of the other director types aren’t up to scratch (although some might be members that rarely/never go in).

Parliament is like a court on steroi_s. You do not cross members of parliament in a hearing like this (back in the electorate it's fine). If you ever appear in such a hearing, I would *strongly* urge you not to tell a Senator to go to hell. They have the power to send you to gaol in the most...

Good point. BA does serve very good, strong tea. I will try to avoid CX henceforth as I don't fancy transiting through HKG where the police can give transiting foreigners a touch up if they have a social media rap sheet with the PRC. AA is the pits. Finnair, maybe - never flown with them...

I joined QFF in 1999 but the first time I reached SG was in 2005 via work. Travel has ebbed and flowed since then, mainly due to work and family commitments. I'm now 32 SCs off LTG as a WP (and will gain LTG by the end of November). With VA I am PS and have their lounge access paid by work...

Please excuse me if I've misinterpreted the point (after all, the hearings were a month ago!) and tbh I've not been on AFF for quite a while, and this is my first post for some time. But just personally, I thought that grilling by Sen McKenzie of Goyder, Hudson and Finch in late September was...

My year is up tomorrow (30 Nov) and unlike most of you I am very limited on how and when I can use my points. So I used the 120 000 points to retain WP for another year. I rationalised it on the basis that I'm changing jobs in 2020 and I will be flying a lot in J, mainly to WLG, SIN and SFO...

For me this is more an interesting mis-step by Joe Aston, Andrew Parker (Qantas group executive of government relations) or both. Both men come from the staffer fringes of the left or "moderate" wing of the NSW Liberal party 15-20 years ago (Aston was Joe Hockey's press secretary for a time in...

Ministers, Members and Senators are offered CL in an ex-officio capacity. I'm not aware of any staff being made CL but I'd have thought the chief of staff to the PM would be a contender. Certainly most senior staff (particularly those that are allowed to fly J domestically) would be P1. I...

I just realised I didn't specify my online booking tool. We use CTM, with its "Lightning" booking tool, which is fine. I do my own bookings and I am also my own approver. The bills obviously show up on my work Amex card so there's no sneaky F flights to LHR (which I'd never get a leave pass...

Private sector here. All domestic travel is QF Y - which suits me fine as around half of my travel is SYD-CBR return on the Dash 8. I usually book Red E-Deals going down, and then fully flex coming back, unless I'm travelling with the CEO, in which case it's not only fully flex all round, and...

I'm guessing that's because HKG won't give QF a gate to fly out of, to protect CX139's marketshare. Would also explain why VA doesn't have a daytime flight too.

I wish QF had a daytime flight HKG-SYD like CX139. A codeshare would have been adequate substitute. Why is QF so averse to daytime flights?

I'm WP and I cop the Manila call centre all the time....drives me around the bend

Was demographically sifted from the samples for Projects Completeness, Attachment and Pool III just now. I very rarely successfully complete one of these now. As I am WP, in my forties and live on Sydney's lower north shore, I imagine I am two-a-penny on the Red Planet and their quota for...