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    Article: Public Servants Spent $1 Million More on Flights During Double Qantas Status Credits

    The agency I worked for did (and still does) provide cash in the bank account for travel per diems and meal allowances - QBT and AOT for flights and accommodation. My gut feel is that they stayed with this as the management and risk overhead of mandating anyone who travelled to have a corporate...
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    Is Norfolk Island a Qantas International Destination?

    The External Territories are a unique beast, governed by Federal laws but treated differently than the states and NT/ACT for some. Eg travel from mainland is domestic under the Migration Act but international under the Customs Act. Resulting in valid points for domestic/ international when...
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    Qatar Airways Refund Terms and conditions - Beware

    And not that only ones who will not refund.
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    SYD all-day check in status?

    In the ABF processing system, outbound flights are generally opened ( as opposed to closed - live movements will not be processed) each morning and choose automatically a few hours after the ETD or manually by staff. When there are flights that maybe mixed up in data input when using non...
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    Qantas A380 reliability issues creeping up again?

    That's normal isn't it? QF website shows scheduled time for this as 24h 45 min.
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    Status run to Auckland

    Don't bet on that. Several ways for that to be known, or at least have a good idea, before they even speak to you.
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    VA562 misses Sydney curfew but lines up for approach anyway

    That's when the Sydney Airport Curfew Act was implemented enshrining the curfew into law. There had been a curfew for many years prior to that. Probably starting around the time of jet aircraft appearing.
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    VA562 misses Sydney curfew but lines up for approach anyway

    Living adjacent to SYD (Tempe) during the state election where the No Aircraft Noise Party was at its peak, the argument proffered against this was that there were residential areas adjacent to the airport site before it was an airport. The analogy used was when a pub that was originally...
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    Taken 2x General Qantas lounge passes - expiry 2 June 2025

    Passes have been transferred to Poombear.
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    Taken 2x General Qantas lounge passes - expiry 2 June 2025

    I have x2 general lounge pass that expire on Monday 2nd June 2025. Preference is to give to people who have not seen the inside of a QF lounge.
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    Lounge Access Help Desk

    A complimentary QF pass, no and pretty sure the bought ones are for QF lounges only.
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    How would customs know someone has TRS-claimed good(s) on them?

    There are a lot of legislated powers in the Customs Act that can be used in relation to the items that restrict if ever see the light of day for travellers, but no legal impediment to them being used. High value jewellery items do attract attention when the sporadic ' crackdowns' happen - a bit...
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    Qantas Business Class meals & menus

    QF 29 MEL-HKG May 1. Soup starter, pretty good Chicken main, okay Yoghurt dessert, superb.
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    Flight Availability/Loadings & Upgrade Probability Help Desk

    Can someone please check loadings for QF29 MEL-HKG on 1/05/25 and QF 30 06/05/25 HKG-MEL Thanks in advance.
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    CheckMyTrip Update - No more desktop access or ticket numbers

    I have the last flight on 3 different QF (Amadeus) bookings missing and 2 others unable to be found - using the web page.
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    Los Angeles (LAX) Transit Questions & Tips

    Correct and verifying business processes, technology etc work as expected in 'real' scenarios.
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    Los Angeles (LAX) Transit Questions & Tips

    Common sense says keep the bags together, so even if only one bag is of interest they are kept together. Plus something maybe detected in the process of investigating the bag of interest warranting a check of the other.
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