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We used this company last November - NewCaledonia AIRPORT SHUTTLE BUS SMITH VOYAGE TRANSPORTATION SERVICE A private car with a baby seat was 10000 XPF from NOU to CBD. Not particularly cheap but not much is in NC. No issues with their service- guy was waiting with a sign and clean van. And in...

Dengue hasn't been a problem up here in recent years thanks to the Wolbachia mozzie program: Establishment of wMel Wolbachia in Aedes... | Gates Open Research We nurtured a few batches of Wolbachia mozzies in our back yard back in 2015, good times! Seems like most reported cases (~1 per day in...

Was in VA BNE lounge for a couple of hours Sunday afternoon for the first time in a while. It had a good selection of food - wraps, sandwiches, tandoori chicken salad, tortellini. Even better selection of beer, that is prob my main beef with the BNE QF lounges - their terrible beer selection and...

Sorry no public transport. If HLO and in the daytime, you could walk the two or three km to the main road to get the bus but if you were prepared to do that perhaps just walk the hour or so into the CBD via Lake St/ the Esplanade. There is also an interesting boardwalk off into the mangroves...

QF725 currently going from TSV to BNE via HTI to drop off an engineer. Perhaps to help out the delayed QF799?

Perhaps try adding it into the URL manually on the next page (flight selection). Find where it says "&promocode=" and change it to "&promocode=<code>"

Spotted the white NHW in TSV earlier this week too, actually think it was the 2nd. Hopefully these all Y birds disappear soon - I have a couple of VA J flights booked for March and don't like this game. Still going to gamble with it though while VA are charging half the price of QF :p .

Had a BNE - TSV J flight earlier this month downgraded from a 737-800 to an Air North (Alliance?) E190 with no J. Call centre moved me with no fuss to the 737-700 flight a few hours later, luckily one of the ancient ones with J. Seeing the new 700s on CNS routes is a worry, hopefully this is...

Coincidentally just completed an 8 day one way DUD to ZQN for a similar rate - $650 or so including ER. Wish I had a hybrid though that petrol price was a killer. Shame we can't share corp codes anymore as I have noticed in the last few years they ask for proof more often than not...

Haha strange hey - once we were staying in an AirBNB near Spencer St before an evening flight to PEK and it was way cheaper to rent a car for the day from Avis across the road than to pay for lockers for 4 suitcases plus a taxi/Uber/skybus X 4. We ended up going a bit past MEL for a rail trail...

Those prices are both insane with and without your code. I am seeing less than half that with our corp P***** code for intermediate SUV (compact doesn't show up with the code). Man that really shows the crazy gouging going on in the rental car industry at the moment. Although our ancient code...

Ugh, overnight on a 737 with no flat bed in J.

Argh how frustrating when airlines don't care to read the rules - we are ineligible for ESTAs due to travel to Iran and I have previously looked into the Guam requirements too; I recall an ESTA wasn't mandatory for Aus passports but they used wording on the official govt site like "ESTA is...

Working in a hospital in south London in 2006 the local area had issues with gang violence. On Halloween there was an incident involving an Uzi at a nearby nightclub in Camberwell. The guys who got shot up and survived (I think one died) were held under police guard at the hospital and there...

A VA flight attendant told me last week she'd heard a rumour they were going to use 787s but she didn't really know anything. She was excited though and said she missed working the LAX runs.

Haha I declared dairy but also had some bottles of baby formula. The cheese and crackers are sealed from Australia though, but perhaps would still be a problem knowing how over zealous some of those officers can be. I am still mad they took my bulls scrotum mate cup from me at OOL 13 years ago -...

1/12/22 VA118 ZQN - BNE 1655 3/12/22 VA379 BNE - TSV 1750 Both flights had the same menu; a choice of mustard chicken with mash and beans or a vege gnocchi. I had the chicken both times and it was quite tasty, wife had the gnocchi and said it was good but she switched to the chicken on the...

Bought a one way J fare ZQN - BNE - TSV for NZD780 in July for early December. Had to brute force the search by mucking with the URL for it to go through without error as wanted a two night stopover in BNE and the multi-trip search was broken. For comparison, this current sale is about NZD1080...

It would be great if VA returned to AKL - RAR, would be a nice alternative to LCCs NZ and JQ. Although the old timing of the return leg was a bit dire. We have an NZ A320 NOU - AKL coming up in a few weeks, booked via Air Calin as their code share ticket stock was a fair bit cheaper, but not...

Will likely drop to silver too. Also a bit nonplussed that in NQ there are no VA lounges now that CNS and MKY are closed. TSV lounge never built. That said I do prefer their BNE lounge over the QF Pub, they definitely have a superior beer selection 😁