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And then it will be a matter of waiting the 5-10 years between an announcement and an actual seat on an aircraft being a reality.....

Congrats on obtaining Plat status with Virgin, sounds like you do a fair bit of flying and a strategic status match to Qantas might be a good idea, assuming your work travel is your choice of airline. I don't think you are alone in that the Velocity changes have prompted many/some people to look...

That is so stupid - family pooling and priority boarding were the two things that Virgin/Velocity had a natural competitive advantage, now with Qantas finally getting their s%^t together and implementing priority boarding, some genius has decided that family pooling and the behaviour of two...

If your nearest Virgin served airport is 1.5 hours drive away and the nearest Qantaslink airport is 15 minutes away then it sounds like you might be on the edge of metropolitan or maybe in a regional area? If so you are unlikely to get business class service on Qantaslink if its a Dash 8...

First flight in one from BNE-MEL a few days ago in Y around row 17 or so and probably only 70-75% load factor. My impressions were not any quieter than a B717 and marginal improvement on a B738 noise levels, maybe the Y seats a few mm wider (?), legroom ok, grey fabric looks great but might age...

I read that their plan was to have Saab 340 hubs in CBR and DRW, maintain and reactivate some Saabs and an unknown (jet?) larger aircraft to be based in CBR and DRW but cruciallly not do much golden triangle flying in direct competition to QF and VA. The interview was very much about getting out...

Would it be too much to ask if airlines/airports are going to enhance away paper towels on the ground facilities that they actually test and service the hand dryers? i.e. Do they work at all? Are there the same number of air dryers as sinks? Do they need to operate at 120 Decibels? Is the sensor...

I have a heap of domestic flights booked on the 17th and 18th March (all domestic cash fares), none of the DSC have appeared at all yet in my SC earn Activity Statement. Many of them have already been flown in April and May Is the deal still that you have to call QFF and get them credited...

Welcome to the hell that is 2Apply. Speaking from experience.

LOL - footage of Qantas A380s and B789s

Unless the car gets better this year and/or Flavio Briatore leaves - I think Gasly will start exploring his options at the end of the season - in my opinion he is a fairly talented driver and I would like to see him in a better car to see what he could do. He must be getting sick of this as well.

Of course they would have been selling those seats bundle of rights for those regularly scheduled services cancelled yesterday, unless Qantas thought that a spare A380 was going to magically manifest itself into existence out of thin air for that short duration of the charters. (that would have...

A pretty good write up of the state of affairs with PE seating and where it is most common and why. And I think this mostly is all a subject that is most applicable in med to long haul international flights. Matt - I think your point about the increasing F and J fares due to their large...

Regarding the OP's question, I know most people do online check-in now, with most having boarding passes emailed or are using the Qantas App, but in the case where people do online check-in the old-fashioned way and print a static physical paper boarding pass, how can Qantas move people? I...

Exactly - no point having the laws if the regulator is too lazy/incompetent to enforce them, may as well not have the laws at all, sack all the people working in the regulator and use the money elsewhere. If we are going to have no corporate law enforcement may as well not spend the money on ASIC.

I love how the Deloitte website requires people to create a new account login and collect more personal info to make a claim. That's just to get into the claims process, and then presumably, they would collect credit card or bank account information to pay the refund. The dataset looks like a...

This would have been something that the ABC's The Checkout would have been all over, such a pity that silly contractural issues stopped production of the show. I hope the OP takes this all the way thru to AFCA and make an example out of 1Cover for the rest of the industry.

While I agree with everything you have said I think that aside from all the sophistry of Rohrlach, the VA yield managers would say they much prefer that people paid $1200 for a last-minute Y seat SYD-MEL, rather than someone who booked a cheap J fare for SYD-MEL for say $500 12 months out from...

It might be that the JQ/3K services DRW-SIN route might have been OK to marginal but maybe the move of terminals in SIN pushed it over the edge? Also Covid. Agree that the new QF DRW-SIN service only makes sense for DRW and maybe ASP based passengers, for people based more in SIN then for most...

I think there is a deep cultural problem at Red Bull and the car being slow and the driver turnover are symptoms of that, along with the backgrounding of the media about the unproven allegations around Horner, the departure of Newey all point to Helmut Marko as being the problem that has...