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In my opinion this conspiracy theory is a complete load of bollocks. The so-called Qantas bashing is a combination of the tall-poppy syndrome plus the standard media desire for ratings. No-one in Oz would give a rats cough if 100 Ethiopeans died in a plane crash, but if Auntie Doris from...

Yep - Labor went into the election with the promise that if elected they would not be bringing in a carbon tax in that term. And the electorate chose not to give them a mandate. Then both Tony and Julia had the task of negotiating a minority government with the 5 independents. Tony screwed it...

BBoy - if you think you are above society, then get the farnarkle off my plane please. [P.S. Farnarkle is an inoffensive term used frequently (in the past) on ABC radio - so don't even think about redacting it Admin!]

As Bart Simpson would say - "Can't win, don't try. Got it!" Anyway - $900 a year is the cost of a new flat screen TV ... with which to watch the planet go down the tube in high definition.

Don't worry - the business lounge at T1 is like a creche today! Fortunately there are only 2 screaming babies and I managed to find a seat after a family of four consolidated their bags. I wonder what the flight is going to be like .....

Was this "friend of mine" on Twitter by any chance?

If you go through the Seat Selection process and leave yourself in the exit row, then the next page will let you know if you are expected to pay for it. I would have also thought that your linked pax would appear on the seat map. If you know their Amadeus reference number you could verify...

Let's see now ..... it appears first on coughters and the press release from these habitual jokers is dated the 1st of April. Not too hard to pick this one as a prank. I'm not sure why I even bothered wasting my time to post this ....

My take on this is that people are balking at paying the exit row fee, and all they achieved was to annoy the WPs who thought exit rows were their birthright. This is a PR disaster when you consider that in the end a lot of people value these seats (though not me) and creating a system whereby...

Pre-Christmas in London, Christmas in the Lakes District (if you don't have any family or friends to share it with), and Hogmanay in Edinburgh. That's what I did last year and it was fabulous. Paris is better in Spring or Autumn.

They were also wrong - the Twitter Twits started the story that the plane had crashed (which was initially parroted by the more pathetic news agencies), hence the dumping of shares. Probably cost the speculators a heap, which is fine by me, but of course if the guys who run my Super are on...

Serfty, if those three links sum up the "errors" of Media Watch over 21 years of broadcasting, then my opinion of them has been enhanced. If everyone in Australia was forced to watch re-runs of Frontline and Media Watch we might actually be able to have intelligent debates about news and...

Sorry - I thought I had updated this thread. In the end I fronted up at Singapore and when checking in the rep commented "So you are in an exit row?". I feigned innocence to this fact and after a slight pause he presented my boarding pass without further comment. But in future I think I...

The poster is entitled to disagree with my reasoning - but I take exception to him distorting the truth. It now appears that when I said he had obtained at least 100SC from his status run slash holiday to Fiji I was very conservative - he now admits that due to routings or class of travel (or...

Obviously you are getting a job as a spin doctor, so let me be very clear about my reasoning. The fact that you included the figure 130 in your title told half the story. The fact that you had already done at least 120SC in "runs" (your term - not mine) led me to add those in to a figure that...

The example has already been given. If you have limited "first choice" meals and will be allocating them by some elitist methodology, then ask passengers for their preference in rank order. That way they know exactly what they will be receiving without rubbing their noses in the fact that they...

According to your first post you were 130SC short after completing two status runs to Fiji and Canberra. Assuming you travelled from Melbourne and (at worst) were in discount economy then the Fiji "run" would have netted you 100SC (normally 50 but you claimed this was a double-status run) and...

I hope they do bring it up, as faults in the manufacturing and maintenance of this engine were the two primary causes of its failure. Outsourcing is fine, outsourcing without adequate governance is not.

That's NOTHING! I'm sick to death of the number of times I've been quoted in the Bible without a by-your-leave. This is even more galling when they take my comments out of Corinthians and turn "it bares all things" into "it bears all things", and then use it to justify full body scanners at...

Well that (along with Team America of course) sounds the death knell for the word "team". The next Macquarie Dictionary will now contain the reference :- team /tim/, n. 1. A collection of spotty fast food technicians 2. A collection of redneck marionettes How stoopid of Qantas to include...