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"Qantas Devaluing Classic Rewards & Upgrades in August 2025" isn't quite accurate. It is the points that are being devalued. The Classic Rewards & Upgrades are being made more expensive

The only good point is a spent point!

What FF scheme(s) are you checking against? Are you open to a paid flight to a staging point in Asia and then looking for awards from there? For example: Paid flight from PER to HKG, and then check award availability HKG <> North America

On the A380, sitting in “steerage” is actually quite good. QF used to put a mini economy cabin there on the upper deck behind J. Now it’s PE. On narrow bodies, up the back can be fairly noisy and subject to more pitch and yaw oscillation. 1737361046 Or in the case of DB Cooper, why wait...

If you’re staying few days in Japan at the start, you could make your way to Nagoya by Shinkansen. (Under 2h) Spend the last night of your Japan visit in Nagoya and then take the Nagoya to Helsinki flight.

That’s how to do it

We do something similar to what you describe fairly regularly. Ie: A paid "staging" flight from SYD to either SIN or HND, followed by a classic awards flight for the longer sector from Asia to Europe. The sectors from asia to europe usually have much better awards availability. On separate...

Starship upper stage exploded on the way to orbit and re-entered over the carribean 1737068889 The booster landed OK

This is what bugs me. Innocent travellers bear the consequences, while there are no consequences for the perpetrators. Offload their bags and send them to Siberia.

It’s enroute. Took off 3 hours ago, albeit close to 2 hours late. That aircraft has issues. I was on the same airframe last week and it took off 3 hours late. It had to taxi back to the gate for repairs.

Is the iPad location showing up in the “Find My” app, or has the battery run flat?

My preference is that the airline divert their luggage to Ulaanbaatar. Or Mogadishu.

Is this not the case already (other than for flex fares)? It should be. Agree, but I feel this is a small proportion of cases.

It’s how some travellers kill a couple of hours between flights. Find a bar and get on it. Not uncommon. Yeah can probably rule this one out for Singapore. Not all airports offer this though.

Maybe Singapore airport just has too many temptations for transit pax with all the shops and bars :) Update: all 4 bags now removed. Seems like this is an issue that is way overdue for a crackdown

All good questions. I understand the “getting drunk” scenario is one of the more common causes. I’d love to hear some theories on some of the other reasons. Medical episodes I guess, but it would be a remarkable coincidence to arise exactly during a 2 hour layover. Another one is maybe...

We’ve now been onboard for 2 hours and still on the ground. Right now I think the airline should place bans on pax who do this. It really does cause chaos. Exceptions for genuine emergencies such as a pax having some medical episode during the layover. But for those that get on the drink...

Specifically, no shows who have checked in, have boarding passes and have checked luggage on the aircraft. Then fail to board. So right now QF2 - a fully loaded a380 with maybe 450 pax on board - is sitting at the gate in Singapore and it’s now almost an hour late. Boarding was very quick and...

How many seats?

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