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It appears that the government is inclined to approve the QR/VA deal. https://www.iasc.gov.au/cases/2024-dec/qatar-3-december-2024#:~:text=Update%3A%2010%2DFebruary,letter%20to%20IASC Pure spectulation but based on the fact that the signatures and dates are filled in by hand seems like Mr...

It’s not really that controversial in the eyes of the general public. Most media outlet had sold this as a move to boost VA’s relative competition position to QF and will push airfares down. The wet lease thing sure it’s controversial but I think VA have side-stepped this topic well with it...

How did you check availability? Was the 50 minuts spend having the agent check various dates/flights or did you have some sort of idea already beforehand? Just curious as to whether the anecdotal evidence that you could use DL's availabilty is correct or not.

Not sure if this should be going into the Doha flights on sale thread or this one but there's an interesting development re the application for frequencies to DOH. Don't recall seeing this being required for most frequencies allocation QF applies to...

I would trust a company's legal/communications department that issues these statements over the outsourced IT development companies these companies uses the build the website. A false statement carries reputation or legal risk but a website can be "buggy". Knowing how developers work (myself...

According to VA press release

Could the government ban Australian credit/debit cards from being charged AUD overseas? If card networks refuses to process AUD payments for transaction outside of australia surely that bust the whole thing DCC relies on that "you know upfront what you are paying". Maybe card networks can still...

Not really if you already know that you are going to use your points for QR flights and you have enough points to transfer. There could be many reasons. People might have some amount of points in Velocity but not quite enough in their credit card program so they transfer into Velocity from...

I've seen plenty of times between US and AU AA advertises cheaper fare on it's QF codeshare versus what QF would charge on the same flight booked as QF code. In a JV unlike a arm-length code share the codeshare doesn't have to be priced higher than the operator-coded flight due to revenue...

It's hard because we don't know your personal preferences, financial situations and future plans. What I will say is do your own math. Look into destinations you want to go, how much it costs to purchase that ticket with cash and how much it costs with points (minus any cash surchare and tax)...

Or potentially appoint a QR approved external candidate - no point in doing that if the FIRB reivew falls through. Seems reasonable that QR would not want Paul Jones to be the CEO - it doesn't need another wave of TWU bad PR and more holes to be poked on now it's got skin in the game.

Might very well be the rule, and my understanding is that you cannot refund to cash by paying the $99 fee like you would normally (because your original form of payment is the travel bank and it's already expired). But the loop hole is that when you refund to travel bank, the system creates...

Buy a full flex/business ticket as far out in the calendar as possible, sit on it for nearly a year then when you are ready to fly cancel/change that one free of charge and book whatever you want, or putting it back into travel bank a few days before the flight and sit on that new travel bank...

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/virgin-australia-says-it-is-aware-incident-fiji-involving-crew-members-2025-01-01/ Better journalism from Reuters this morning.

Was J rewards space available on the new flight? Or was VA able to transfer you across to the new flight by booking into a cash fare or somehow have SQ open up inventory on the new flight?

Had a Thai vegetable curry (optionally add chicken) on tonight’s VA878 SYD-MEL. The curry was pretty tasty, though it reminds me of the vegetarian curry served at the Sydney lounge on most Thursday which I’m all too familiar with 😂

For sure there’s room to grow in the domestic market and that’s enabled the fleet growth of both players, but that room doesn’t make it easy for a new entrant to establish into the jet markets. It’s easy for the incumbent to incrementally grow its fleet year by year to support growing demand...

Since we are flexing: Top 1%, 49420km, 70 flights

I got the feeling that it’s coming since a few weeks ago that banner asking you to keep your information up to date showed up. I was not wrong.

Yes, once you’ve booked the ticket swap out the VFF number and replace it with your UA MP number. That entities you to whatever benefit VA provides to UA member, including lounge access.