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That's a very generous offer from Virgin. Might help reduce the stress of the situation for stranded passengers. It's got to be especially difficult because most travel insurance these days excludes insolvency of a provider.

It hasn't appeared on mine yet either, but the period doesn't start till tomorrow so I think it might not appear till then.

A few other people have already mentioned the noise and vibration, as well as feeling the turbulence much more due to their small size and light weight. I'll add that they're also quite cramped, especially if you're even a bit tall or broad, even if you are only in it for an hour or so. There's...

I did get a survey, but for some reason whenever I get surveys from AmEx it's about the Platinum Reserve card, which I barely use. No questions about fees but a lot of questions about which other cards I use and why. As always I mentioned the foreign exchange fees as a big reason when I direct...

Definitely would be, but I can't see that happening. Virgin tried that route with an all-jet fleet and it didn't work out. There's a handful of 717 flights between CBR-SYD but they seem to mostly be a relocation flight that happens to carry passengers. The key driver on that route is frequency...

Mine posted overnight as well, dated 29th March.

I've just got mine set up with Location and Notifications allowed. There's other permission (such as camera for scanning QR codes, Phone for calling the driver etc.) but they aren't needed for the app to work.

Are you in Australia at the moment? It might not be available to set it up unless you are. 1713828230 I've always had way more problems with rideshare services in Melbourne than in any other city. I dunno what it is there but they all the drivers just seem very unreliable.

Probably just to rub it in and to make sure you know you'll have to fly with someone else. 😂

Seems to have worked pretty well for them domestically. Looking at the BITRE stats, Qantas only operates around 40% of QF coded domestic flights, the rest being outsourced to the various Qantaslink airlines. If the arrangement with Finnair works out for them, we may see the current domestic...

They could have done that instead of the existing wet lease arrangements though but choose the out sourcing option instead for some reason. I can't imagine it would be different for this route.

The first question that springs to mind would be how would they operate it? They're struggling to operate the routes they have, resorting to wet leases. Where would they get the planes to add another route and wouldn't they look to start operating the wet leased routes with their own planes...

Which airline is it that's operating the A220 for Qantaslink?

I'm going to be the lone voice of disagreement here and say that, for me, this evening departure timing is quite handy. The context is that when I'm going to LA it's for leisure and I'm stopping there for at least a few days. So with this timing I could finish up work a bit early on the Friday...

Come on, I don't think you're in a postion to be suggesting that anyone else is cheerleading for an airline.

Qatar taking over Virgin is even less likely than Virgin joining Star Alliance. Putting that aside it wouldn't surprise me if the ongoing bad blood that Qantas has with Qatar (and several other alliance members) results in Qantas exiting Oneworld at some point, even without Qatar buying a stake...

Looks like that's it for Ola in Australia. Last day of service will be Friday: https://www.9news.com.au/national/ola-rideshare-platform-leaving-perth/e0f13405-55cb-4013-a1b5-02aa2347c242 https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8585947/uber-ride-share-rival-ola-hits-the-brakes-in-australia/...

I actually quite like Southwest's boarding system, where you get a assigned a boarding queue number. The numbers are something like A34, B12, C45 etc. They ask all the A customers to line up in order and then have them board, then the B customers etc. If you have status or pay extra then you get...

Do you think any other airline would have been more accommodating? I suspect if you'd missed check in and this had been Qantas, the airport staff would have just given you the contact number of the call centre and left you to it.

I'd guess it'll be a few weeks, to make sure that any pending flights have posted before the credits are assessed and applied.