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Depends on the length of the flight and the time of day. Flights to Darwin (~4h) definitely had plastic cutlery. I'm wracking my brain for shorter routes, but they definitely still offer hot sloppy meals in Y domestic as recently as late July.

Most airlines, if not all, use metal utensils in business and first class still. Presumably because terrorists only fly economy? 🤔 I'd be really interested to see the modelling for metal vs wood utensils factoring in theft and washing costs, both for cost but also end-to-end environmental...

I think the prices at the moment aren't really indicative of what will be on offer and it is really just a dart board guess for those willing to try their luck (which are almost certainly going to be much wealthier people who don't care if a flight gets cancelled/delayed for another three...

All in one hit as a single points dump for the order. (i.e one line on your points balance statement) If you ordered today, should be in your account by Wednesday under normal circumstances, maybe next week if they're still taking a bit of time to process orders based off my experience last month.

As soon as it ships. This is usually next business day, but my last carton took a week to process (presumably due to lockdowns)

I had issues saving the certificate to my phone (Android) and after so many attempts, ended up going onto my laptop, downloading it and emailing it, then saving the attachment. I can imagine a lot of people not bothering beyond try number two (better major prize odds for me I guess! 😂) Ended...

Easy there turbo... I don't know how you leap to me 'damning Qantas no matter what' for simply questioning the logic and value behind this, especially given I've never said anything to justify that view. There is nothing free in this world, and one should always be asking what the true cost is...

The cynical-me is trying to work out what Qantas gains from this. Aside from the empty fluff of further supporting the already well-worn and obvious "everyone get vaccinated [so we can get back to business narrative]" and a smidge of good PR for a few minutes. There is no real incentive here...

I would assume they're making the calculation that the few people who are flying enough under the current highly restricted regime to be racking up WP levels of SC, aren't going to be deferring travel just because they've hit their roll-over cap. This rollover deal would mean people in this...

So you have to fly in 2022/2023 to retain status, and not just sit back and enjoy the benefits without forking over the revenue. If people could roll over the whole amount, for a lot of their cash cows in platinum it is the equivalent of ANOTHER year of free status extension, or at least...

Can anyone confirm if the solely Qantas numbered Alliance Airlines flown flights out of Darwin with the E190s count for this deal? My flight last month counted to my four flights for renewal, so I am assuming so?

Given the amount of spam emails QFF send out I think it is safe to say they will send it out in the next few days...

Now here is hoping we can make one flight in the next six months...

I'm in the same boat re Feb22 renewal, as in the "Further Status Extensions" thread. I increasingly suspect Qantas will wait out a few more months and let people try status runs and other things to try and requalify, milk them for as much coin as possible, then around November or December...

Yep, the bonus points wine cartons are a solid go-to, you can usually get 10k bonus points for cartons in the $290+ price range, so $22-25 a bottle, and net arround 11k points.

I think Zoom and other VTC platforms are the new PowerPoint: Everyone hates them, thinks they're inefficient, painful and encourage bad habits in operations and management, but we're stuck with them. The cost cutting is simply too great and tangible, versus the less eaily quantifiable downsides...

I think the big issue is the business travel cash cow, which is still highly restrictive in many regions by company policy, nevermind government restrictions, and where a significant chunk of the high status flyers get all or a plurality of SC. (Particularly that gold to...

Unsuccessful upgrade on DRW-CBR QF1983 as Gold, single pax. Nine out of the eleven J seats were empty... (Did manage to book a classic rewards J up to DRW though)

Thanks for the welcome! Unfortunately being east coast there isn't a lot of options to rack up decent SC; I squeezed in a Darwin trip after a few failed plans, but even another J trip plus one or two sneaky short Y will still leave me fairly short of the SC required. (A NZ status run, or any...

Hi all, I'm currently gold status, with an expiry of 28 Feb 2022, so I just miss the year extension, but got the gifted 300 SC, as per the November 2020 status support package. However, as work policy is now only the most "essential" travel (and even then I've had all three domestic trips this...