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Good to see the MSM reporting this as "Qantas A380 forced to land because it ran out of fuel". Meanwhile there are plenty of non-Qantas planes heading for Sydney or Melbourne that land in Brisbane all the time. No one bothers reporting it because they are just "routine" fuel stops.

Radical. Thanks!

Hello Australian Frequent Flyers, Will I make QFF Silver? Currently I am sitting on 225 status credits. My new year starts on 1 July. i.e. 30 June is the last day I have to get to 300 and get silver status. 1) I have a flight from Brisbane to London via Melbourne booked for 29 June...

Internet charges are high on my list of **** that pisses me off. It seems like the more expensive the hotel, the higher the cost and lower quality of internet. I agree that it's probably the service provider that is getting the profit but I don't really care. ****ty irons and ironing boards...

What do you mean damned if you do? I've never been damned for "doing". :cool:

The problems is that non-US carriers have no rights to carry domestic passengers so any passengers that stopover in HNL cannot be replaced by new passengers from HNL to SFO unless those passengers are transferring from another international flight. A larger airline could make it work (like QF do...

If OP was kind enough to reveal the source of this rumour we might be able to judge its credibility. Otherwise I'm going to call bull****.

If you haven't chugged along at 30mph through the Rust Belt or had to bash ice out of the brakes with a crowbar in the Rockies you haven't lived. :D

I'm more of a train person myself. If there's a train going somewhere I'm keen to be on it. If you folks complain about 13+ hours in Y to fly to LA, have a think about 60+ hours LAX-NYP on Amtrak. ::evil: (seriously I live for that ****)

I've heard the reason has two parts. 1) There isn't much to gain by painting your logo on a freighter (apparently). 2) There is a lot to lose from video on TV of a smoking hole in the ground with a tail with your logo on it sticking out (even if it's "only" a freighter). So I guess what...

Oh I totally understand that pilots with more experience are in general better/safer. This point could have been made without the reference to "low hours" = crash for sure. I mean if it's true that a First Officer with any less experience would have meant a crash in this situation then what are...

Bit of a low blow from the check captain sliding in the line about the huge experience the First Officer being barely enough and if it was a "low hours" First Officer they would have been ****ed. That comment certainly wouldn't have anything to do with negotiations between Qantas and a certain...

Daaamn, who do you work for!? Certainly not the same employers that I have!

No seats available for free upgrades, maybe? No offence but the request was a little bit unreasonable.

Lovely how on PPRuNe there is one rumour about the demise of a route and another about the upgrade of the same route. I'm going to assume that the service isn't going to stay the same forever so clearly PPRuNe has "predicted" what happens to QF to HNL. I'm going to put it out there that...

Saw a 737 in AFL promo colours today. It's not just the tail that is white. The whole thing apart from the "AFL blah blah blah" part is white! Anyone know if it is painted on or if they use those temporary(ish) decals that Jetstar use for their promos?

I heard that JQ were going to start providing meals to passengers who were on a codeshare ticket from full-service airlines.

Currently in Darwin for work. It's a fairly long flight up here from Brisbane so I was keen to avoid Jetstar. Virgin have poo poo departure and arrival times so my only choice was Qantas. Travel booking person at work says no Qantas, we have a policy of taking the cheapest appropriate flight. We...

As I said, the flight was already delayed by 40 minutes and who knows when it was noticed the meal was missing. Maybe 20 minutes before I was told it would be another 10 minutes? Also this happened in Alice Springs and I'd be surprised if it took 30 minutes to get a vegetarian meal the 50m from...

She did say she had already spoken with the Captain and that he'd approved it. Maybe the FA was making an offer she didn't think I'd accept. In that case she was a very good actress. But what was she going to do if I did accept?