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Certainly seems like they weren't necessarily thinking ahead from a communication or a marketing opportunity though. If this was intended to be an awesome marketing opportunity any normal loyalty scheme would have done the calculation and the maths and announced to people how close they were to...

And on that QF64 there will undoubtedly be connecting passengers going elsewhere from SYD on Qantas who will have an unplanned stopover in SYD on that night thanks to the curfew, we may see where those pax end up in threads here in the next few days.

Yes in my case it was a "go my own way" situation as I arrived into SYD past 1am at T3 domestic and QF had already rebooked me onto another flight the next morning, so I just found the closest available room which was in the $400 last-minute price range with many displaced passengers...

I think QF has quietly waved the white flag on that $200 or $250 per night limit, that amount of money will get you nothing in SYD for example, and especially if there is an A380 load of passengers or indeed some other weather effects that causes many missed connections and a lack of hotel...

The maths must be that taking a A333 out of service for 14 days is taking 28J and 269Y seats out of the network for 14 days. Now assuming they are mostly used for international medium haul to Aisa and very rough approximation of 2.1 flying sectors per day of utilization that would be approx 823...

Symptomatic of an airline that is more focused on shrinking to irrelevance, spin/PR and becoming a big data/bank/insurance company than an actual airline flying people around. Taking a A333 out of service for 2 weeks typifies this thinking. I'm sure that if Qantas management got what they wanted...

Slow clap for network 10 the crucial point of the race being hidden with advertizing.

I hate street circuits with fresh paint, may as well spray cooking oil at random parts of the track.

And they wonder why travel writers have no job security: Judging by the numerous comments to this article from the readers, not too many people gullible enough to swallow that kind of PR/spin/fluff anymore, so really makes me wonder how sustainable the entire travel journalism...

Maybe it would be parts availability or even complete engine inventory? As I understand it engines (or their components) run out of hours and need to be replaced/serviced/overhauled as part of a planned maintenance thing that would not be a surprise, but there would be the additional complexity...

Its such a predictable path: Bean counters -> lowest common denominator -> no compelling consumer selling point -> failure of business

Yep I had success for the first time a few days ago, but it was pretty special circumstances being a BNE-ADL flight on Thurs, my minimum bid was rejected outright, but then amended and accepted a day later because obviously they wanted to free up as many Y seats on what VA thought might be the...

It was reported in the Business section of The Australian that he was indeed among those keen to eliminate J class from VA aircraft entirely and I would expect he might have been part of the decision-making team about the DRW and CNS lounges. Spent some time in management at Southwest Airlines...

Yeah it is so slow compared to the previous Stocard app. Slow to open, and slow to pull up the selected loyalty card barcode.

So the terms of this offer - must be booked before March 31st and must be flown before March 31st? Correct?

Yeah - this is all about Airbus and Boeing being unable to deliver new aircraft, engine shortages, and seat shortages plus all the other post-Covid supply chain disruptions going forward (read: international trade wars and tariff/export bans), so not really a Qantas-specific thing but more of a...

I think the info missing here is that the OP already has flights from SYD-BNE and has a hire car booked from BNE airport and was booked to return that hire car to BNE airport, but they have since changed their flights and have now booked MCY-SYD-CHC so they would be hiring a car at BNE airport...

You are probably right, there are a number of charter flights to a surprising number of destinations/mine sites from BQB already, I hadn't realised there were that many.

It might be handy for FIFO workers who live in BQB but have a charter flight leaving PER to work on WA mine sites early on Mon or Tues morning and who fly from site back into PER on Mon or Fri (so there might be some sort of 5/2/3/4 or 8/6 or 7/7 or 14/7 roster that this would work for and would...

Agree and also probably one of the better time-efficient options for CNS locals to get to much of North America now without too much backtracking.