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Anyone know what happened to QF2016 from Sydney to Broken Hill this morning?

I know this has been well documented, but I have recently had luck with a successful claim overnight as near to SYD airport as I could for around $360 so it seems that Qantas at least has got some discretion about the costs for accommodation for pax affected by delays and flight cancellations...

In a case of pure coincidence, I just did a BPay to cover the first month's spend yesterday (because they lost the paperwork to do an auto debit from my bank account - and yes it is a paper form that has to be lodged at a branch). The 90K QFF points arrived the same day. Appears like this on...

Thanks for the summary, I have a newfound respect for the Editor of the AFR Micheal Stutchbury after reading about that.

Yeah - it won't happen and a case of closing the stable door after the horse has bolted, but that would have been worthwhile testing in court as an example of predatory pricing, especially if there was evidence of fares to PER rising in other timeslots but dropping in the timeslot that Rex operated.

I remember at the time post-Covid travel boom and Virgin, Jetstar and Qantas were self-imploding with lost baggage, lack of staff, huge check-in queues and lack of planes and mass flight cancellations domestically, and yet Rex still couldn't get off their butts and market themselves despite...

Yeah, I just realized that it might be a geographically staged rollout, in which case if they stuff it up they can learn or someone else can roll out a better app. What were the drawbacks of Google Wallet again? Was it not being able to share other family members' cards? Or is it just a privacy...

Just tried an experiment, I have Stocard on an Android phone already and installed Klarna app on the same Andriod phone - only 6 of the 40+ loyalty cards I have made it into Klarna App so that's an epic fail right there if that's their idea of a successful migration. Edit: Actually scratch that...

Same here - I'm an Android user who uses Stocard every day, I have not received any notification about Stocard being shut down. Is it possible that maybe Klarna might shut down Stocard on iOS before Android or vice versa? Seems like the kind of thing you would want to warn your customers about...

Yaeh - the thing that stood out to me in the post-chequered flag warm-down lap was Norris saying that next year will be his year with the obvious celebrations of McLaren winning the constructors. If the McLaren is as good next year, as it was this year, I have a suspicion that next year might...

I have applied, been approved and hit the spend recently, will post back with how quick the points arrive, the second-month billing cycle due soon and have hit the $6K spend.

Do you reckon the BNE base will be first to go all Q400 with SYD and then MEL ADL later? I have heard on the grapevine that simulator availability is tight so might be might be some alternative places being looked at to convert all Dash 8 to Dash 8 Q400.

I have been flying VA a fair bit lately and the PA is as you say "2 toilets for rows 3-30 in the rear of the aircraft" and seems pretty standard announcement now but its part of a much longer spiel and I suspect the length and number of these spiels with very repetitive and boring information...

And it would be nice if they could even operate their schedule on time as well. I don't know if it is crew shortages or aircraft shortages but I havent seen many VA domestic flights on time at all after about 3pm on any weekday lately. Their OTP stats will be in the toilet when the next set of...

Just to close this out, I had my State Dept of Fair Trading come back after some back and forth between them and a Virgin representative, with an offer from Virgin for a "goodwill gesture" of the value of the difference plus a small amount for my time. The more important "win" for me is seeing...

Yeah - its not a huge amount of money for me in this case, but its the principle of how things are displayed on airline websites was why I was making the effort. As I said before - the T&C's in an email are irrelevant for a customer that wasn't even aware of the promotion at the time. Virgin...

Just as an update here, the relevant State Fair Trading body is still in the process of dealing with this complaint, I don't hold out much hope of a clear win, as others on here have made the point that the word "From" may be a loophole that merchants can drive a bus through, but I did notice...

If I'm not mistaken Gilbert & Tobin have acted on behalf of Virgin Australia for quite a while, but also have had Qatar Airways as their client?

Interesting, as well as the perception that its an 'orphan aircraft type rating' plus the obvious lower pay, do you think it might be something about the bases for A220 pilots? All their bases of SYD BNE CBR HBA and MEL have all seen astronomical price rises in real estate and are expensive...

Nicely put and simple economic equation to work off, maybe changing that number to say $20 per Qantas Status Credit might be a decent 'rule of thumb' for people unable to do last minute or plan a year in advance leirure flights or status runs and/or flying BFOD Y a lot, as you say, a simplified...