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When you get cataracts fixed, your lenses are replaced so they eliminate vision problems that are due to lens shape, no matter how long you have had them. My father recently had cataract surgery and no longer needs glasses for the first time in 60 years. Admittedly, he didn't have glasses as an...

They had a little niche suitable for glasses and phone in the back of the seat in front in economy on the QF 7 flight I took a couple of weeks ago. Very convenient!

Nice of you to say, but I think almost everyone would have done the same in the circumstances.

Thanks for the update. I haven't heard anything, so I guess I wasn't on any of the affected flights. I'm very surprised, as every booking I made during that period was changed at least once by Qantas. Maybe I booked early enough that they hadn't yet decided for sure that they wouldn't be running...

Just wanted to share a positive experience yesterday. I was sitting on a SYD-BNE Qantas flight yesterday morning. It had been a long haul: 3 hours DTW-DFW, nearly 6 hours in the airport at Dallas, 17 hours DFW-SYD, 2 hours in Sydney airport, and another connecting flight still to come after...

Happy to report that I was mistaken: my seat was bulkhead aisle premium economy, not middle seat. And yes, the upgrade was very worthwhile: closer to business than economy. Thanks to those who advised me to try it!

SG QF7 (SYD-DFW) 21 June. Flexible Y fare. Requested upgrade to J when I booked on 3 March, with fallback to PE. No luck on either, but I did get an empty seat next to me in Y, and a personal greeting. SG (now LTG) QF8 (DFW-SYD) 1 July. Flexible fare. Requested upgrade on 3 March. Unsuccessful...

No, Virgin Silver because my work requires me to take the best practicable fare, and that’s often Virgin.

Many of the hotel booking sites are doing this now, so my workplace has changed its policy: we are now required to book directly with hotels to make sure we can get an invoice every time. If enough employers of business travellers start doing this, maybe they will get the message.

Just reached Qantas Lifetime Gold myself; almost entirely on domestic economy flights over the last 30 years. It’s been slow and steady — I’ve never once hit Platinum and have dropped into and out of SG over the years, though have maintained it for probably the last decade, along with Virgin Silver.

I hit 160,600 points credited towards Points Club around the 27th of May and the app says the threshold for membership is 150,000 points, but it has not yet awarded me points club membership or the associated benefits. I took a screenshot on 29 May to show that I had hit the required number of...

TSV-BNE this morning: much improved over a the offering a few months ago. Vegetable frittata with a small pork sausage and what appeared to be boiled silverbeet. BNE-PER: Choice of the reliable chicken quinoa salad or a beef noodle stir fry that tasted more or less like a fried spag bol, but...

But speaking as a former Westpac shareholder... sometimes when businesses are caught out and pay penalties, they and their shareholders do eat the costs.

I been known to drive alone in my car wearing a mask. I have a virus with a cough and my husband (who drives more often than I do) doesn’t. I can’t cover my mouth properly while I’m driving and I don’t want to spread germs all over the steering wheel. A mask takes care of it.

Well, I ticked “no” and am on my flight, coughing up a storm but at least wearing my N95 mask. Not making eye contact with the poor chap in the window seat.

I'm fine. I just have a cold with a cough. But the app still does ask you to declare that you don't have this type of symptom (potential COVID symptoms) when you check in.

I’m travelling for work, due to fly home tomorrow, and have come down with a cold. Negative for COVID, so I am wrestling with my conscience. If I tick, “yes, I have respiratory symptoms” when I check in, what happens? Do they verify that I’m COVID negative, ask me to wear a mask and let me on...

6AM TSV-BNE flight was the pumpkin and carrot frittatas, which were quite nice. A little greasy on the fingers so if they aren’t offering cutlery, a napkin would have been nice. Missed the immediate connecting flight due to a slight delay, which put me on: 11AM BNE-CBR. A lunchtime flight, but...

Not mid week, unfortunately. I did tick Y+/W fallback but I wonder if that is worthwhile? I haven't travelled premium economy before -- is it really any more comfortable than standard Y? (I'm not tall and benefit if there's greater recline, but don't benefit from extra legroom).

I have a SYD-DFW return trip coming up in late June, booked economy. I've already submitted points upgrade requests. As SG, do I have much of a chance of success?