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A332 VH-EBO is on QF37, the 16 March 1655 hours second of the day for QFi's MEL-SIN: airborne at 1924 with gate arrival suggested as 2350 hours local time,. 105 minutes behind its timetable.

On Sunday 16 March, A333 VH-QPE arrived in SYD at 0624 hours, 31 early as QF42 from CGK. It then formed an empty flight down to MEL, QF6007, an 0830 hours that took off at 0907 hours, arriving at gate at 1026 hours, 45 minutes behind schedule. It is now operating QF79, the 0925 hours MEL-NRT...

"Balancing competition" sounds like socialism. The AFL is expert at this. Consumers (in this case travellers) would benefit from less regulation, not 'updating individual agreements'. If SQ wanted to operate from SYD or the yet to open WS airport to MEL or BNE and carry domestic passengers...

PR has a sale until 20 March 2025, so Y from BNE/MEL/SYD/PER is from A$829 or so, and J around $3400 to MNL return. From there AF (three nights a week ex MNL, a recently recommenced route after a 20 year absence, it seems to be as little as P125,000 so under A$4000 MNL to Europe return. You...

Sunday 9 March's QF62 from NRT to BNE had class leader A333 VH-QPA. This 2000 hours flight took off at 2015 but on Monday 10 diverted to CNS, from which it took off at 0713 hours for BNE arrival at 0911 hours, 61 minutes late. It then operated empty from BNE down to SYD, becoming airborne at...

After diverting back to SYD last night, B738 VH-VZB is operating empty QF6157, a 1000 hours SYD-BNE on Sunday 9 March that should be at a gate by 1034 hours, 29 late. There are still other 'ferry flights' operating into BNE, plus at least five further QFd cancellations during the day, and some...

QF6146 and JQ7992 also seem to be heading south down to SYD.

There's a fair amount of empty running ('ferrying') on Saturday 8 March 2025 to ensure aircraft are back in Brisbane for resumption of flights after Cyclone (downgraded to 'topical storm') Alfred. QF6146 is a 1400 hours PER-BNE that took off at 1416 with B738 VH-VZB. It looks to have attempted...

There's a fair amount of empty running ('ferrying') on Saturday 8 March 2025 to ensure aircraft are back in Brisbane for resumption of flights after Cyclone (downgraded to 'topical storm') Alfred. JQ7994 is a 1930 hours SYD-BNE that took off at 1944 with A321 VH-OFP. It looks to have...

The boy allegedly stole at least one weapon from Tourello, which is just south of Maryborough (Victoria) on the Ballarat-Maryborough rail line. Maryborough is one of Victoria's most disadvantaged communities. Avalon did play host at various states to AirAsia and Indonesia's Citilink but...

Cebu Pacific still has a printed magazine, as does Etihad. Philippine Airlines seems to have discontinued printing its 'Mabuhay' magazine.

A further disadvantage of Premium Economy is given the fixed dividers, if the seat next to you is vacant, you can't stretch out across it. So I only ever book J, or occasionally Y. PE is not worth the extra: it's a no-man's land.

The Wamos Air wet leases for the MNL-MEL/SYD routes have ceased. It is normal to have the A333 with 1-2-1 in J on these routes. Very rare to have the poorly configured odd unrefurbished A333s.

Thursday 6 March had QF64 from JNB to SYD arriving at 1836 hours, 261 minutes late with A388 VH-OQJ. It is forming QF1, the 1555 hours SYD-SIN-LHR that should be taking off at about 2115, so will be badly delayed from SIN as well. QF51 today is supposedly a B789. This 1035 hours scheduled...

'The Age' claims there were 'about 160' on board, not '150' as in the story above.

I travelled last year on one of its A321s in J. The refurbished ones (of which mine was one) had 12 lie flat seats in a 2-2 configuration. Not many airlines achieve this in J on single aisle planes. The seat was comfortable, cuisine fine, service friendly and it operated punctually. In Y...

The ABC reports a superintendent of police stating the boy was 'not previously known to police' and that the firearm was loaded.

You can also open jaw using LHR. Flying in to it and out of a European airport avoids the UK air passenger duty, a massive tax.

AVV looks as if it remains closed. Scheduled arrivals JQ531 from OOL was cancelled, but that was due to Cyclone Alfred's approach as OOL itself had already been closed. The next two, JQ611 and JQ613 have been cancelled due to the above incident.

'The Australian' has a video. It shows the man reached the door to the aircraft after (naturally, being Avalon) climbing the stairs where he was overpowered. The pilot holds what appears to be a shotgun. The pilot then removes either tools or ammunition from a tradie's pouch. Police say the...