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Global Distribution System. Essentially the systems that airlines/travel agents use to connect to each other to make bookings etc. In your case your ticket is issued by VA's GDS system, then because it involves a QR flight VA's GDS system needs to tell QR's GDS system it's made this booking on...

VA won't through-check baggages at Australian transfer airports with separate tickets from it's own domestic -> international short-haul flights. I‘d say the chance of them doing it for the QR operate flight at DOH is slim.

Well interestingly I don't actually have an ABN nor have I registered for business flyer but I did activate the offer (before realising it requires an ABN to register) and I now I just reliased the bonus SC landed anyway. 🤷‍♂️

Change of mind or force majeure (i.e. weather) refund is not a right protected by the ACL. That is governed by VA's contract of carriage and the one-year expiry of the travel bank credit is legal. It stinks but it is what it is. You could use the travel bank money to purchase a flex ticket far...

I think it’s better than I thought. If I understand the terms correctly it’s a 6 month pause where my review date shifts to Nov from May, then I retain Plat for another 12 months after the pause. If I apply right before my review date in May 26 my plat status is effective guaranteed until Nov 27.

My review date is May and have already requalified for next year (so Plat sorted until May 26). With a new bub I have the option to use parental pause. Does that mean my next review date will be pushed back till Nov 26?

Mate get your logic together. Your whole business case was like “undercut Qantas/Rex” then you throw something like “oh yeah setup an extra base on the east coast and base E190s there instead of Perth where they are making good money FIFO”. The 700s exist because the FIFO airfields are too hot...

Aside from profitability another factor the arm chair CEO hasn’t considered is the (opportunity) cost to shuffle these aircraft between the coast. You’d waste 12 hours ferrying an E190 from Perth to Melbourne/Sydney and back - that’s a full day of revenue flying the aircraft could have done...

Ah well. Thought there’s some trick that we could use to extend the calendar like with the QF websitr 😂

How did you do it when the VA calendar is only 330 days so the furthest out is Feb 3, 2026?

Yeah Hainan is a great airline, one of (if not the) best in China. The problem is that it's got a really patchy international network departing from seemingly random citities and almost never daily so you'd usually need to reposition via a domestic flight between where you arrive into china and...

Just search it up using an OTA like trip.com to compare your options. Many of these airlines don’t have daily flights to Europe so you option varies depending on the time you wanted to fly. On a random date SQ wants 6000 for premium economy to Paris in July but Malaysian airlines offers 6800 in...

Flying PE will likely give you more SC over flying Y on the QR flights, VA coded or not. Though going to Europe I think you no longer have the option of a SQ flight on VA codeshare. You can redeem KrisFlyer points to upgrade a SQ flight if ticketed directly with SQ. Similar offer is possible...

Economy yes business no. QR does release 1 or 2 business seat ver far out from non SYD/MEL departures to Doha.

that your outbound flight is from $130 and if you were to return the same day your inbound flight would be from $229

I'm not quite sure what the situation is, but I can also find plenty of examples where VA's price are within 30 dollars of the price on QR's website for the same VA wet-lease.

of all the speculations this is probably the right one. Bain will nickel and dime the wine in the lounge, they aren’t stupid enough to willingly let a minority stake partner have a free cash withdrawal right. I think she was referring to the theoretical economics benefit of these extra capacity...

I mean it’s always going to be “explore” because you don’t necessarily want a repeat of VA1.0 but at the same time you don’t want VA/QR to do nothing and just sit on the wet lease forever. Should the government be unhappy with the outcome of the exploration (say when there’s clearly a business...

HX seems to have carved out a decent gap in the market being the “Value Carrier” in HK. There’s plans to take 3 787-8 from HU and resume flights to North America from Hong Kong. Now that begs the question - would velocity reopen redemption with HNA group? China is a market where velocity...

The treasurer has said on ABC yesterday regarding the Qatar acqusition that "people should expect to see that decision quite soon, ideally this week".