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    Chinese warship live-fire exercise discovered by Virgin Australia pilot, Air safety body says

    Today's reports are that now the PLN have reached WA we are finally able to bring a sub to bear on surveillance. https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/defence/australian-us-subs-move-out-as-chinese-flotilla-nears-wa/news-story/0a565c062a954f2f979416417887d1ca
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    Flight Availability/Loadings & Upgrade Probability Help Desk

    D9 is a good omen, but it depends a lot on your status.
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    The view or two from my "office"

    Cronulla
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    Less than Good experience on SQ out of Dubai

    Do you mean like when he got banned mid-flight by an airline for a negative comment he made from the aircraft on social media? I have an upcoming SQ flight in Y and that is bad enough without being tied to my seat for hours!
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    Midair collision between Helicopter and CRJ (AA5342) at Washington (DCA)

    I still see the request for visual separation as a negative - not trying to blame, but more in the "we always do that" when the army flyer said the crew was so safety conscious. A small part of a bigger problem, but that is my view. I get it that the whole tragedy was set in motion by the comms...
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    Midair collision between Helicopter and CRJ (AA5342) at Washington (DCA)

    The only negative that stood out for me was the determination of the copter pilots to request visual separation. And the big take-out safety wise was ATC not holding them short as the ex-army pilot sais happened many times to him.
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    Famous people seen (or even met) whilst flying or lounging

    Delta Goodrem and her partner Matt on VA838 SYD-MEL 21/2.
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    Virgin Australia overtakes Qantas as largest domestic carrier

    As with most newspaper headlines, they are not there to inform, but to attract readers. There is no doubt that having strong and sustainable competition domestically is in everyone's best interests regardless of loyalty considerations. The graph above shows a consistent picture with seasonal...
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    Changi T5 back on the agenda

    https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/business/2025/02/18/singapore-to-fork-out-billions-for-changi-airport-upgrades/
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    SQ Any Economy seats upstairs on the 380?

    We also enjoyed our upstairs Y in the SQA380, but that was somewhere pre-2012. It is somewhat different to board an EK 2-class A380, and do the long tramp through upstairs economy to get to the J section at the rear (placed there for the sake of the bar area).
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    Midair collision between Helicopter and CRJ (AA5342) at Washington (DCA)

    Yes, discussed here as well. Also speculation that CRJ saw or were aware of the Blackhawk in the last few seconds and pulled the nose up.
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    Credit card options for retirees

    While this doesn't help any one already retired, i urge anyone not yet retired to follow @kpc in getting cards sorted well before. I had a Westpac non-pts card from when we renegotiated the mortgage, which at $16k and with TI seemed good, but followed the advice on here some years back to add a...
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    Scams like these

    Cheaper hosting costs? :D
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    Your favourite photos taken of/from a plane?

    VH-OEH just 4 years before being sent to the Mojave graveyard. Seen here passing over Marrickville on its way to land on SYD runway 16.
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    Midair collision between Helicopter and CRJ (AA5342) at Washington (DCA)

    Don't disagree, and the seemingly automatic response from the Helo to go visual seems to a non-pilot like me an outcome of long use of that system.
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    Scams like these

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    EK Lounge General Discussion

    I quite like this lounge, and now that I am falling back to SG will probably use it over the zoo I have usually found in the QF J lounge for evening flights to AU.
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    The view or two from my "office"

    Often see them perching on top of the lights on the newer bridge span.
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    Famous people seen (or even met) whilst flying or lounging

    Now those are celebrities I recognise!
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    Qantas boosts international capacity, wet lease Finnair aircraft

    Happily then I have not been on the BKK flights. Have been on QF291 in both J/PE, and was quite happy with the day flights to SIN. Did QF2 on the 2 returns, again in J/PE and found the service and food much of a muchness across the AY/QF services. The only exception was PE on QF2 where we had...
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