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On the upside, at least you've got the rolling status qualification period, so it's not like Qantas where you suddenly get reset to zero. As long as you've still got 1000 status credits in the past twelve months you could just take another flight to hit the eight sectors and you'd go up to Platinum.

My point is more that if that really is so simple or that's their plan, why haven't they just done that? Why leave it to the day before to make the change when every day that passes more people will be making connecting booking for dates over the next year that'll all have to be rebooked (or...

If they were planning on doing something as simple as swapping the airport over, you'd think they'd have done it by now. It'll cause disruption to people with connections and so more lead time to sort it out would be better. Unless they're trying to exhaust every other option before resorting...

They may have applied for these slots without a plan on how to resource them. They're currently having to wet leasing plans from Finnair so they obviously don't have enough, so they may have found themselves in a position of not having enough planes and crew. That means if they want to keep...

I think you've hit the nail on the head there, a lot of the responses in this thread are really wishful thinking. Hoping that this will be such a disaster that Virgin will either be forced to back out or will collapse entirely. I'm sure they'll lose some customers over this, but I think the...

I've noticed I can't get Didi from CBR either. No issues getting one to the airport, just can't get one from the airport.

I guess it depends on if you think of Qantas and Jetstar as two separate carriers or one carrier with two separate paint jobs. I'd note that even Qantas group don't seem too certain about which it is, changing their mind depending on the situation.

Looking at the ACCC report from Feb 2025 in Dec 2024 Virgin's domestic market share overtook Qantas and they became the largest domestic carrier by market share, a 3.1% increase since July (pages iv and v). Looking at the historic market share graph (page 18), you can see that this is the first...

I'm not sure why everyone keeps assuming that double status credit offers and other bonus status credit offers will totally stop under the new scheme and they'll have to pay full fare to keep status. I think the shape of them might change (like they have in the last year), but I'm certain...

I'm very much in favour of it, and a much broader overall of consumer rights in the airline business as well. When Labor presented the "Charter of Rights" I found it pretty disappointing, essentially just repeating and re-enforcing rights that already existed but which consumers were struggling...

I had this happen on a Thai airways flight a few months back. It was a day flight out of Sydney to Bangkok, so I guess less annoying in that no one was trying to sleep, but still irritating. I was in Y and the three passengers in the row behind me we all watching something together on one phone...

Just thought I'd share my experience of the Double Status credit offer. I'm not trying to get status on QF, but I am planning a trip to LA in June. I was wanting to get on QF11 on Friday so I could knock off work, fly up to LA and arrive at a time when I can check into my hotel. The price for...

It's good to see the Accor brand hotels are now starting to show up in the statement credits, especially given the AmEx Platinum comes with Accor Plus.

I've generally had the impression that the Novotels sit a little higher than Mecure (but below Grand Mecure). But I do think that it varies a lot depending on the age of the properties. There's two Novotels in Perth (Langley Park and Murray Street) and the difference between them is stark, with...

That's generally been my experience with Mecure, though I haven't stayed at any of the ones in London. If your work travel policy allows for it though, you could perhaps look to book a room higher than the base type at one of the Mecure hotels. I've found that can sometimes work quite well...

Yes, I stayed one night there last year. I'd been up in Liverpool and was flying out of London the next morning, so I took the train down and stayed the night there. I'd describe it as clean and functional, but a bit dated. The room was adequate, if a bit on the small side. Good breakfast in the...

My experience with cancellations is that they'll rebook you straight away and include a link in the notification that you can click if you want to see what else is available and select another flight. I always check the link and see what else is there, even if I'm happy with the rebooking.

I've found for our corporate provider (CTM) that the hotels are often more expensive than booking directly, but the rates offered are flexible and the direct rates are not. Usually if I compare the flexible rate booked directly it's more expensive than what we're able to get through to corporate...

I think it's possible they could do like Bhutan and have a daily tourist fee. I think it's probably a bit economically questionable though. Bali's entire economy is effectively tourism and introducing a steep tourist tax isn't likely create a situation that attracts more high spending tourists...

I've noticed that once the new scanners go in at an airport, the rules tend to go a bit all over the place. I don't know if this is just inconsistent training or differences in the make and model of the equipment, but it does make things hard. For example, Melbourne T3/4 and Canberra both have...