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I started out red at Virgin before I did the status match and shifted my business over. There's a hundred miles of daylight between red and gold. I was lucky to get a stale muffin as a red, as a gold, VA were very good to me. So I keep on with VA and worked my way up to plat. Personally, other...

I agree with most of the comments here about the betterness of the MEL VA lounge over the Sydney effort. Sydney, like the CBR lounge is just a bit too over styled for my liking. The Melbourne lounge is more liveable. As for the QF dom lounges at both Tulla and Syd ... they've got that whole...

Dunno, $125 isn't so bad. Granted, if you have a tribe of kids it adds up but as a single person I have a certain view on tribes of kids on planes and basically it involves not on my plane and/or the car. I remember as a late teen and first starting to travel by myself in the Ansett days that...

Actually, I err. Flying VA out of Tasmania, Newcastle or Townsville is the best advertisement I know for Qantas. There's a whole series of ads for Alan Joyce to run - miserable Virgin flyers trapped in ports without lounges while Qantas flyers kick back in their pub. On a side note, can...

I've said it before and I'll say it again - I just love Virgin's Hobart lounge. It's so open plan and democratic... I'm there right now, at John B's new innovation - the pay as you go bar. I can host, it appears, half of Hobart. The vibe is Hobart casual - thongs, a fierce looking mother in law...

AusBT have reviewed the Parmelia today and were quite kind to it. I'm a tech spaz and can't fling the link over on my iPad but it's there now on Australian Business Traveller - Unbiased business travel news, reviews and advice. Your essential resource for flights, airports, hotels and frequent...

Look, I only stay there once or twice a year but it's one of the hotel's that have pushed me up into better rooms so I have a positive perception of it. I also like Glass, but I do miss the retro San Fran Grill with its trolleys IMHO the Sheraton on the Park and the Westin are better central...

I'm a humble Hilton gold and just had two nights at the BNE property @$199 per night booked through Hilton.com. Usually stay at the Sofitel in Brisbane but after a run of upgrades at Hilton properties thought I'd try my luck in Brisbane. No luck. Got the ordinary room I paid for and a...

Well, I could adopt you and you could family pool them to me

Monday morning Sydney airport. It's raining here and raining in Melbourne, so guess what .... already things are running 30 minutes behind and it's only 6.15am. Can still get a seat here but it's filling up fast. So I suspect flights will be running behind all day. Enjoy

I've heard a rumour from a very reliable source that when HBA does finally get a lounge it will for sure have a premium direct to the plane security/boarding lane from the lounge. Two of them. And a day spa. And French champagne. It's being brought to you by the same great design outfit who've...

I'm there tomorrow arvo so shall ask

Re: Happy Hour returns I remember in the early 90s an $85 OOL - SYDNEY fare was considered great value. Now I hunt around for $59 fares.

FQT = Freeloading Qantas Traveller

Had a shadow between me and Keiran Perkins yesterday. He's not as toned as he once was, but the again, neither am I Watched him scoff his tim tam out of the corner of my eye. Fascinated he would eat one. It was still a.m. and morning chocolate is like morning drinks - not going to happen. But...

Slim pickings in the OOL lounge this morning. Definitely no bacon. best thing I saw was a mini hot chocolate with a side plate of marshmallows the barista made for a very polite little boy. Kid saw me eyeballing his marshmallows and scurried. Really wanted some but had to be adult and eat...

So I'm on VA741 up to OOL today. Four of us in row 3, middle seats empty. All well dressed (for an OOL flight), quiet, and seem to know the drill. All vaguely promising for a half decent flight. We push back and this bozo in 3C, he takes his pretend Gucci loafers off, and bare feets it all the...

90% of the time I'll get a row 3 seat window or aisle seat. It's a nice perk, but agreed, not an automatic right. Rarely get a shadow. That's all fine. What does irritate me a bit is that off the main trunk routes, it's a lottery who gets seated next to you cause plats and golds may be few on...

oh no, does that mean they aren't serving that mystery fried/gluggy rice in Mel?