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Will be interesting to see the effects on the other parts of the Qantas International B787-9 schedules, not much slack in the schedule for these already over-committed aircraft.

Will be interesting to see how they go. I think they have missed their brief window myself. All the macro's are going against them now, from interest rates, the cost of money, labour costs and shortages, loss of access to the Alliance fleet, exchange rates falling, discretionary spending and...

Yes - in 2017 banned from overflying from the shining lights and bastions of democracy and human rights that the countries of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Yemen, Libya and Bahrain are famous for.... :rolleyes: Many media outlets have also reported on people within Qatar and...

Yes but normal governments would actually use their Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in dealing with other governments, from some of the reading of the report it looks like DFAT was completely out of the loop in any decision making or even consultation. What you are saying is that...

Well a large document. Timeline of events from page 12 but from pages 24 onwards there is a discussion of the dozen or so reasons given by various Federal ministers as to why the extra capacity was not granted to Qatar, and its interesting that none of these reasons were supplied to Qatar...

Yep with the VA fleet and last minute aircraft substitutions/reliability issues its just not even worth considering inflight wifi as anything other than a "lucky" bonus if it does exist, but pretty much I plan on no inflight wifi as a given and a 50/50 flip of the coin on inflight entertainment...

In that situation would it be worthwhile booking the cheapest reasonably early BFOD flights for the 4 pax and then also booking the most refundable Y or even J cash ticket you could on another carrier as a back-up plan in case the airline is unable to get you to BNE on that day? Might be worth a...

Using more expensive B737 mainline pilots to fly instead of the striking cheaper F100 and A320/319 Network pilot group. Thats a great use of crew, capital and shareholders money.......:rolleyes: The era of slicing and dicing the workforce up into competing subsidiaries in a deflationary low...

Yes I see what you are saying now, but I wonder how many airline customers get fobbed off by chatbots and are never connected to a human being, and just give up their pursuit of whatever solution they wanted to get? e.g. compensation, rebooked flights, refunds etc For the customer this is the...

Revision: Step 1: Move in next to existing airport Step 2: Complain about existence of airport Step 3: Get expensive sound-proofing installed at taxpayers expense Step 4: Profit

Some interesting things to note in this story in that the denial of compensation was through a virtual assistant/chatbot, makes me wonder about the legalities of this if customers receive a "chatbot says no" response as to the implications of chatbot responses being incompatible with consumer...

While the self service portal is a good idea, I found that even with 1-2 weeks notice about some flight changes it wasn't possible to see all the possible options of flights to get me to my final destination either a day before, on the same day, or on the next day or using some other routing...

Yep not super cheap, I noticed that the Complimentary Upgrade policy is fairly restrictive but the seat selection policy is reasonably generous. Screenshot here: With no other way to earn Rex Points except for flying, this will be a proper/pure frequent flyer scheme eventually, albeit one...

Have fun picking a password folks, their requirements for password length and mandatory characters are unspecified so its a game of password bingo to enter a new password upon sign up. Had a heap of existing flights flown recently, will see if they approve/accept claims from recent flights or...

Want to know why the previous Rex frequent flyer program was terminated in 2010 or was it 2011? High fuel prices and pilot shortages were blamed. So they have gone through an entire economic cycle, and 10 years later still find themselves in the exact same circumstances...... there are threads...

The exact same thing happened to me last week, an involuntary domestic VA flight change resulting in an unwanted overnight in BNE. When I called VA to change flights I was only offered a limited range of options/alternative flights and I specified that I would be putting in a claim. I thought...

It will be interesting when the Australian Federal Department officials meet with Qatar officials as to what reasons are given and whether Qatar officials share the reasons given to them or not. Qatar Airways may not share much publically if further discussions are ongoing and positive with a...

I'm not sure if it's because VA are short of aircraft or crew but nearly all the VA TSV-BNE services have been changed to Air North E190s and Alliance Fokker 70 & Fokker 100s. VA seem to have some two class B737-700s returning after the school holidays. Qantas mainline has also gone with a lot...

Yes it is - but by the same token, the shareholders cannot fly the aircraft. No aircraft flying = a pretty cough business = sad shareholders.