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So predictable that the Qantas marketing dept would publicise this. Qantas is always holding out the promise of improvement (SYDi J lounge, AKL lounge, priority boarding etc etc etc) but fails to deliver. But it keeps the rusted-on customer rusted on.

OK thanks. Looks like I should keep my QR number in. Next question: what happens to my seat selection if I am downgraded from QR gold (free preferred seats) to silver (not free) in the period between when I book and seat select and when I fly? Thanks in advance.

This is a really old post but I was hoping @BNEFlyer or anyone else could confirm that, if I change my QR Gold number at booking to my VA number later, then my preferred seat selection will remain and will remain in place (stick) for the flights. Preferred seat selection is very expensive on QR...

I don't have a middle name but have successfully entered my VA number on ANA bookings, so that is not the obstacle.

It's strict liability under the Montreal Convention up to about A$250,000 per person for any "accident" but over that a pax would have to prove negligence/fault on the part of the airline.

Just watched that clip. I'm a lawyer but, god, some aspects of the legal industry make me sick.

It's a cheap lefty echo-chamber rag, so not surprising.

Excellent service and meals/drinks on both sectors of my recent SYD-NAN-SYD. Beef with black bean and rice, and the butter chicken with rice were both nice, and a small entree, cake and cheese/crackers also provided. Lots of beverages! Blanket/pillow provided on both sectors and a nice...

What a miserable, entitled, whinging, mildly racist, intolerant bigot that writer is. But, to be fair, he is writing for the hard-Left Atlantic, so that goes with the territory.

Qantas doesn't care and won't care because pax still keep coming back to Qantas to spend their (or their employers') hard-earned. Even well-informed pax who have been subjected to multiple IRROPs stay loyal to Qantas.

High GDP per capita correlates with low taxes, small government, and high economic freedom.

Now you are just grasping at straws.

Which year?

That's the best thing about QF status: flying on other airlines. The celebrations when QF announced the Finnair wet leases were very instructive.

Had the veg pizza SYD-BNE last Sat night, was quite nice although very difficult and messy to extract from the cardboard box. Plane was only 25% full so the flight attendants came around with a second serve of the pizza. Also managed to down three bottles of red wine. For a second there, I...

This thread is about flying J, so your answer is of course different. Being VA WP, it's pretty easy to maintain it by flying a couple of international trips with VA partners in J, I just have to fly some dom sectors (or up to Fiji) with VA to maintain WP, but status is basically just...

And triple check that any changed flights actually get ticketed.

Either transfer to Velocity or use them on Y class flights as there is usually very easy-to-find redemption opportunities (if you can cope with Y).

Good point. I have never tested positive for covid. I may well have been in the @RichardMEL category of having had asymptomatic covid at one point or another.

To clarify, I wasn't laughing at you for wearing masks (I was being ironic about n=1 studies proving anything). But, to be honest, I have been known to laugh at people driving alone in their cars while wearing masks.