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I’ve noticed the airport Maccas workers tend to jump in front of even the crew at security 🙄. The general public clearly doesn’t have much of an idea as to the critical role the crew play.

I’m still not seeing justification there for the government to purchase and run an airline. It’s a minuscule number of routes that could easily be picked up by decent operators. If they elect not to, the government can subsidize and put it to tender.

To an extent they are… hence the government subsidizes routes. Aside from Parkes and Moruya, what routes does Rex operate under its own steam? All government subsidized routes can be handed to other players. Airlines that, you know, haven’t gone bust. Link, QantasLink, hinterland, Skytrans...

Why not? Apply, interview and accept. Then you can use the staff queue.

Use DiDi. They still use the old pickup area and it seems to work better. QF crew (contract dependent) are entitled to transport home after a long haul sector. This would generally be a prebooked HC. Knowing Qantas, I can assume they’ve flicked this entitlement to Uber and the crew quite...

Almost pains me to share good experiences… I’m remortgaging with a different Chinese bank and they’ve been difficult, to say the least. The latest strange request was “your HSBC account number on your credit file doesn’t match your HSBC card number. Explain”. I figured that would be a drama…...

My theory is that I’ll sleep from take off to landing. And if it crashes, I’ll be asleep and hopefully won’t notice.

I’ve booked a CAI-JNB-CPT to join two Singapore awards (SYD-CDG and then CPT-SYD). Less than $1000 in business class (the JNB-CPT alone is often about $4-500). Only issue is flying Egypt Air… but it’s overnight anyway. There are some good deals to be had.

UL is showing a lot of availability at the moment which leads me to think it might be phantom. The domestic connection causing dramas seems to be a QF-QF issue.

Just generally made me feel like a bit of thief or scammer tbh. Got a lecture stating “you can only use it once, only order once, no extra orders”. Generally unfriendly, but still got the job done. You’ll get maybe one drink and a burger or something for $36

I flew SYD-ADL recently on QF and the hot J meal was some warmed sausage roll bites. Not indifferent to the “Patties” once’s I’d reheated in the oven the evening before after a few too many drinks with friends. Both airlines offer a pretty ordinary business service. That’s consistent...

Depends on your gate. And how much you drink. Peroni bar have always been pretty unpleasant about PP (always get a lecture about using it). Mach 2 is fine. Food is ok. If you are planning to spend a bit of time and will have more than 2 drinks, then go to The House. If you have an unlimited...

I did not. I don’t believe one is offered. I carry the T&Cs and a copy of the statement in which I met the spend requirement for insurance.

TBH it’s not a terrible card. The 60K spend is annoying but workable (would be better without the reduced earn after 2.5k per month). I’ve definitely gotten $500 value out of my star gold. Long haul sectors are always in J but I’ll happily fly Y on anything less than 2H so the lounge/baggage is...

Good point. But I suspect that came about because of the Laos incident.

I can’t say I regularly see reports as the second or third televised article on the national broadcaster for days on end, but maybe I’m watching a different ABC 🤷🏾‍♀️

It’s simply an observation. I would pretty safety say that the media does not report on every assault on an Australian overseas, and definitely not at this level. Certainly entitled to that opinion, however I would disagree and say that the media certainly does excessively focus on issues...

Certainly interesting to see the romantic obsession the public (and therefore the media) have with airlines/aircraft. We still don’t have full details, but I’d hazard a guess that if any general member of the traveling public was robbed/assaulted in a foreign country, it wouldn’t rate a column...

I’m heading over later in the year. Doing a few days in Cairo (see the pyramids, Egyptian museum) then a 3 night Nile cruise which covers some of the tourist spots. I’ve been to Cairo before and can’t say I’ve got anything partially nice to say about it… but you’ve got to see the pyramid...

Joburg has always been the QF “take what we’re giving you or get f’d” route. They have a monopoly, they charge a premium and they know people just have to suck it up. Flash back to the 747 days and there were countless delays of 24 hours or more. They couldn’t care less if passengers are...