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I had the number and had checked the model and everything before the flight with Qantas by phone (as required) but then check in desk attendant called for help and some manual was consulted. To their credit they checked the website and could see I had done everything right (by the website)...

If I use a credit card and that incurs a premium then the premium can be as low at 1c per point. So I spend $1000, get 1500 points and pay 1014.70 including 1.47% card premium. So I paid $14.70 for 1500 points and $1000 for what ever I bought.

I have had a similar but much more trivial issue with QF and toddler in paid seat. When I asked for the chicken for toddler was asked if I had pre-ordered an infant meal - I said I had not and I was just looking for the adult meal. I was told that I'd have to wait and see if they had any left...

I too am very interested to get an answer on this.

In the Domestic example 10000 to 15000 points + regular $250 ticket is about $400. Business class domestic seats are seldom less than $750. For the person who would be booking into paid J - the points are likely to be easy enough to come buy. Internationally 48000 pints for an upgrade is $480...

If the upgrade came from the classic award inventory (very few upgrades do) then they are available instantly - in effect - you just book them as an award in the first place. You'd have to either drop all of the upgrades that occur using non award inventory (most of them) or have two upgrade...

If upgrades were conformable at time of booking then every proficient booker (ie Personal Assistants of execs etc) would try this before paying for a full fair premium cabin. So while it may not influence purchasing toward QF it does influence purchasing QF premium cabin. It is effective and...

{In response from removing alcohol from Lounges} Ok, lets get the facts on that 99.9% number. If only 0.1% of people were loud and boorish in the Perth domestic lounge they would not need to make announcements over and over on the PA asking people to watch their language and noise level. The...

Here is an out there suggestion. Stop serving alcohol in lounges. That would turn them from boozey pubs (Perth stands out) into places to relax or work. Go one step further and get rid of the TV's. The money saved could go to putting on food that people want to eat (rather than putting out...

I think the missed opportunity is to make Gold and Plats ambassadors for Qantas. When I had anytime access as WP I'd always book my visitors on QF so I could take them to the lounge before the flight home - I might go to the lounge when picking them up too. I can't do that now - At times I...

I think this discussion about Lounges has drifted a bit and potentially confusing. The issue is if the OP is flying J, that, in itself, will not provide access to an F lounge. So where people have made reference to 'Any Lounge', it would be better said 'any J lounge'. Unless the OP or some one...

Are the little luggage services offices near the baggage belts frequently staffed by grumpy bums? I've known them do great things - like when I went to Adelaide one to see about a stroller we left in Sydney International baggage claim accidentally. I wasn't expecting to see it again but...

That is often the experience for this venue. Sometimes its good and sometimes it is really really bad. But before bagging the venue you have to check out what the organisers organised and paid for. I was there this morning and had good breakfast - it had spent a bit long in the warmer but...

I think in some Hotels it is a simple matter of courtesy to write the the GM before you arrive and during your stay. How many times have I come to my room in a hotel and seen an envelope on the desk - and I think - oh cough - a telegram/message - who's died etc only to find it is a special warm...

I was right - I don't have the communication skills to hit it on the head. What you suggest is exactly how the system works now. In 'exceptional circumstances' a request is made and the ATC approves it. It goes some thing like this. Pilot - "I'd like to take off" ATC - "OK" If the carrier...

I'd like to think I had the communication skills to hit this idea of ATC being in any way involved in enforcing curfew so hard on the head it did not come up again - but I doubt it. Maybe the best way is to give some examples. A plane is wanting to land, it has missed curfew - it is marginal...

I too have been confused by this and I am far from thick I think. In the Airline Earn Table a note saying that the Airline column in the Airline Earn Table is actually the marketing carrier not the operator owul;d clarify heaps. So I had never given any thought to flying on QF flight numbers...

Hopefully a new question. When taxiing out to the runway for take off I wondered - do plans like 737 and a320 etc have horns? As in Beep beep. I undertsand their utility for avoiding mid air incidents would be 'limited' but it might get a ground crew out the way.

I don't think the problem is ever asking but what happens when the answer is no. I asked for an unallowed luggage interlining the other day. She made a quick call and it was allowed (to check in agents surprise). I'll ask for upgrades and the answer is normally no and that is OK. I don't...

On the contrary, lately I have noticed a difference. On my last longhaul flight there were about 10 empty Y seats. I ended up with 3 of them next to me so I could lie flat - the check in person let me knwo she had done this. I was offered cheese and biscuits or a desert from business. The IFE...