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Some misinformation above about Tokyo, it's absolutely possible to take a direct train from NRT to HND, it's jointly operated by Keisei/Keikyu and is called the ACCESS Limited Express. It takes about 90 minutes and runs every half hour - not too bad given the distances involved and the...

It just refers to a non-revenue flight to get a plane back to base (or wherever it needs to be).

I don't know if anyone gatekeeps the names like this. The local authority can pick whatever they want. Look at "New York Stewart Airport" - 100km and 1.5 hours from NYC, or "Paris-Beauvais Airport" at 80km away from Paris itself ... there are plenty more examples.

This is everyone's expectation in the short term, yes. Long haul would probably only be LCC, like Jetstar or Air Asia, maybe Scoot. There's no way Emirates or SIA (mainline) are moving here anytime soon. It's simply not where the high-yield and connecting passengers are. It will be a slow...

Do you have a new article on that? I saw one on Bloomberg but it's paywalled and can't figure out how to bypass it. But that sounds good, it will help the seatbelt sign be taken more seriously if staff are required to stow their carts and sit down too (as occurs on some Chinese airlines, I...

In the situations where we see A380 diversions due to fog at SYD (usually they go to MEL), would WSI be a suitable point? They can then just bus the passengers to SYD. Or is it likely that fog would affect both areas at once - I'm not sure if WSI still being in the coughberland Plain is...

You don't "check in again" at BLR. You simply drop your bags with their existing labels at the baggage drop counter after exiting customs. They won't be concerned with the number or weight, as far as airline systems are concerned the bags were already checked to their final destination at SYD...

One of the things that stood out to me from this article was "Of the 40 people on the flight still under treatment, 22 patients have spinal cord injuries and six have brain and skull injuries, Dr Adinun said." Twenty-plus people with spinal cord injuries, how many of those will be...

I think it's notable that the press release includes a restatement of the exact allegation, rather than "Qantas does not admit any wrongdoing" or something more generic. I get the feeling that somehow that wording was a result of careful negotiation with the ACCC. Does that mean that the...

For NSW, the Government has indicated the intention to end the Airportlink contract (as always planned) when it expires in 2030, and operate the stations trhough Sydney Trains just like all other stations. While possibly the staff are on different conditions, I can't imagine it's that...

This has been my experience also. The staff member I travelled with was a little unsure, but checked the rules and couldn't find anything banning it, so they agreed to be guested into the lounge. It was domestic so they didn't scan the guests' BP, which the staff traveler was relieved about...

It's hardly "strict" - there's no possible way they have to enforce this, it's not like they are searching your belongings upon exiting India for contraband currency exports, unless you're some kind of international money launderer and they have a tipoff. However, because it is officially...

Dang, too late to make that joke. Does show that Qantas Loyalty was more about being a retailer than anything else though.

I've had lots of small schedule changes like this and my understanding is that as long as it doesn't cause problems with minimum connection time (MCT) to other legs, it will not require a re-ticket. There might be an issue if a schedule change causes a date change (i.e. 2355 changes to 0005 the...

I don't agree with this, I had a large heavy tool that was rejected by airport security, they didn't say exactly why but I suspected because it could be used for blunt force trauma. I had to go to the landside luggage shop and buy a new suitcase to check it in.

You're going to Indonesia, right? Please confirm your destination so we can help you best. The passport hotline for Australia probably can't tell you for sure whether Indonesia, or whatever specific other country, will accept your passport or not, especially without seeing the damage...

What did you do to sweet talk the lounge attendants? In my experience they strictly follow the rules, i.e. you won't get access unless your ticket if QF-coded. I've had two trips through NAN post-Covid as QF WP.

I've never booked a fully flexible fare, but are you saying the app doesn't allow you to rebook those using a similar interface to the flow forward? As far as flow forward for non-flexible fares, revenue management and operations staff must be continually at odds with each other about this. I...

I didn't say they are dropping their liquids bans, more that they are relaxing the additional inspection at the gate (in airports where there is already a centralised security which bans outside liquids as normal). For example, I recently flew FJ, SYD-NAN-LAX, and there was no gate security...

The funny part is that the US doesn't require this any more for US-bound flights, and neither the UK to my knowledge, and they're the ones that started the whole liquid and gel hysteria back in 2006: 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot - Wikipedia . I don't know if Australian authorities...