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re: [Wrong] Sydney to Hong Kong VA80 & VA82 Armchair-airline-strategy wise it's probably best to have both Sydney and Melbourne flights to hong kong. Sydney's departure would meet the demands of Australia's main business city, Melbourne's departure works well for morning connections such as...

re: [Wrong] Sydney to Hong Kong VA80 & VA82 Yep, surely flight times for VA81 and VA82 didn't just plop out from someones imagination (although this is the internet so maybe i'm wrong). Who knows maybe Virgin will shock everyone by doing both MEL-HKG and SYD-HKG. Only time will tell.

re: [Wrong] Sydney to Hong Kong VA80 & VA82 Totally agree. I might be just fueling their rumour mills!

re: [Wrong] Sydney to Hong Kong VA80 & VA82 So I did a bit more sleuthing, and found the below pictures. They all come from Velocity FF>Redeem>Airlines>Points Tables 's mileage calculator. Not sure what to make of this, but in my opinion likelihood is inching closer to a SYD-HKG route.

re: [Wrong] Sydney to Hong Kong VA80 & VA82 Exactly what i was thinking regarding the VA81 and VA82. Only time can tell if this glitch is an accidental slip of SYD-HKG or the 'rumours from a stewardess' about MEL-HKG is true. The timing for the hypothetical VA81 seems to be quite early but...

Hi guys Was trying to find how long a flight from Sydney to Hong Kong takes and found the attached. Not sure where google pulls its data from. Information seems a bit wrong though because VA80 would mean departing after Sydney's curfew, although VA81/VA82 is more or less a match-up with...

What are people's experience with having longer than standard layovers? From my many many searches on Qantas and BA, I seem to be prevented from accessing flights where I connect at transit city overnight, and this may or may not result in a Qantas agent screaming at me (from experience about...

gcmap works well too for finding distance in miles and the mapping facility is quite popular with flight bloggers.

I heard that CX is opening a new lounge in Singapore T4 when they move ops there, does anyone have a better idea when thats opening? T4 is expected to open mid-year but with a flight in August im not sure if im going to be sent to a dnata lounge or a brand new one.

As mentioned by grussellt, it doesn't need to be E->W. Presuming you want PER-KUL direct, if you intend on doing a dummy booking keep in mind you can't search Malaysia Airlines availability on Qantas, thus its best to substitute it for a nearby city like Singapore. When I was looking for...

I was just told by a QF call agent that I can't look up segments separately and have them under 1 "oneworld RTW" flight. A.k.a SYD-KUL MH140 10:10PM-5:00AM(+1) next day KUL-HKG MH72 9:15AM-1:05PM [in KL for only 4 hours 15 minutes] QF agent said that since MH wasn't showing SYD-KUL-HKG as one...

Considering how alot of AFF members seem to be having both Plat Edge and Explorer, I wonder how does AMEX account for new Plat Edge member's ($200 travel credit instead of VA flight) as well as the explorer credit? Wonder if they'll put the two together and make $600? If so, that would be great...