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Qantas do have a price match team, its the social media PR team monitoring social media that acts to avoid another PR disaster! You literally have to shame them into abiding by their own T&Cs with the real threat of a PR disaster to get a resolution.

I'm thinking the recent travel voucher has nothing to do with the ACA or internal processes at Qantas and everything to do with social media visibility. Which social media outlet did you use and where specifically?

Some interesting tyre strategies, different race tactics,tyre degradation and the random nature of safety cars made this interesting and possibly the only race worth watching apart from the Dutch F1 race so far this season. The advantage of having them "bunched up" was the lack of wasted time...

Yeah - I don't get this "fleet commonality" thing with QF using A320XLR's on 1-2 hour hops in the Golden Triangle, thats a stupid use of an aircraft with long-range being used on short hops, may as well fly B789s between SYD and MEL while they are at it. It's like using a Ferrari to take your...

Yeah - I am not sure how much of QFi metal capacity is currently directed towards mainland China now vs pre-Covid QFi? Not a lot I would imagine pre-Covid, and even less post-Covid? Your assessment that if QF cannot codeshare with MU there seems to be no point QFi serving mainland China sounds...

No this is from the Tic-Tok video upthread, its about 10-15mins long but I've got no reason to disbelieve it - its timestamped as him in Melbourne when he should be in LAX or NY by now. When you listen to his version of the events I don't think anyone would have an active enough imagination to...

Re: Outsourced ground handling sounds like a possible contributing factor. The offloading of all luggage as opposed to selectively offloading luggage probably means that the ground services contractor had some resources still there late at night but possibly not enough resources? According to...

I'll just leave this here - an extract from The Australian's coverage of the recent court hearings (my highlighting):

So basically - a fuel contractor was told to "fill it up" on the assumption that the longer runway was available and then knocked off and went down to the pub. But if we think about this for a minute we realize that we knew the inbound aircraft was probably late, ergo the outbound might be...

So you are saying that all the "macros", or things outside of Bain's control, e.g. interest rates, inflation, other competitor activities, price of fuel, exchange rates, labour shortages etc would have been the main contributor to the lack of interest/success in the roadshow?

QF93 must have been subcontracted out to Monty Python Flying Circus airlines that night, for the people that didn't see the whole Tick-Tok video lets recap: 1. QF93 is scheduled to depart MEL for LAX approx 8pm 2. Late inbound B787 so departure delayed by 2 hours 3. Main runway works at MEL...

Ah yes - our politicians - all very happy to accept the pay rises that come with the indexation of public service wages and conditions, and making laws for the private and public sectors of the economy, but somehow manage to exclude themselves from privacy laws, anti-spam laws, truth in...

Its a submission to the ACCC, I agree with you that if the wording is done right the submission shouldn't have to necessarily be "political". As per my post above - I think that there is enough blame to go around for all politicians of all colors and stripes as being part of the problem...

Matt - best of luck with this, at the very least in your position you should be able to bury the government in numerous specific details about airlines: 1. One sided, legally dubious and hidden T&C's/fare classes and other "gottcha's". 2. Poor performance in customer communications at all...

Yeah - I agree with you that, as naive as it sounds, most people would trust that High Court Judges could remain impartial despite the benefit offered by airlines, but as others have mentioned, previous politicians have also tried to argue that with varying degrees of success. Its very difficult...

So bit of a noob question, I was shopping around for a domestic multi trip annual policy, mostly flying around domestically within Australia. Here is an example I plucked from the Cover-More (underwriter Allianz). For me its lots of flying around with the only real benefit I want is an airline...

Exactly - if it was a national security matter then the national security council and opposition would be involved and bipartisan. And if Qatar Airways were such a threat to national security, then they wouldn't be flying here in the first place. And if if were a human rights thing then thats...

F Following on from this, and using the occums razor theory that a stuff-up is more likely than some convoluted conspiracy theory the decision was made by the Minister on the 10th, presumably in some sort of misdirected attempt to influence the Qatari Governments legal defence of the Australian...

Strong theme of politicians making rules for everyone else but exempting themselves from said rules. Guess who is exempt from National Privacy regulation, proposed legislation on misleading and deceptive conduct, and truth in advertising laws? The federal governments messaging has been extremely...

I don't necessarily think it's going to be the longevity or reliability of the current A330 fleet that's the issue, if they stop converting them to freighters and commit to maintenance then the A330 fleet are the current growth fleet for Qantas in Asia (the most likely source of growth for the...