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Thanks for your kind thoughts - its off-topic but as a follow-up to this Mrs Eastwest101 did get fast approval from the Federal Government at the time to exit Australia and the Japanese Government expedited their inbound quarantine so they got to spend a few days with the dying relative before...

Thanks for that. Hadn't realised there was such a confusing array of options of plugs/deactivated doors/and active doors and different type/categories of doors that are options on the NG -900, -900ER and the Max8-200, Max-9 & Max-10. I suspect that these mid-cabin exit doors will become known...

Let me rephrase points 1 to 4 for you: 1. Qantas is the designated flag carrier of Australia and is a private company so should be protected from all competitors. 2. Qatar a state-owned flag carrier has access to government backing & if it competes then the law of supply and demand ceases to...

You keep on flitting around between various specious arguments that have been thrown up before by the transport minister to explain the federal government decision: 1. If the airline QR is such a security risk then why are they still flying here? 2. if the treatment of passengers at DOH airport...

So using your logic anyone who is an export trade competitor or an "adversary" to Australia should be banned from flying here - so goodbye to all the following domiciled airlines: Qatar, Air New Zealand, South Africa, India, Oman, Canada, Singapore, PNG, all US airlines, Chile and Thai airlines...

Would have been handier in service during the last 10 months or so with passenger seats on it, making revenue, rather than a hare-brained Covid panicdemic thought bubble/being parked up in Germany.....

Indeed - thanks for that, I checked the Expedia web site and you can click on details and the full Expedia web site will also show your fare class so it seems that getting the fare class for a prospective booking is possible there as well. So not necessary to use the Expedia App. So for...

Yep - for Australian passengers unless you live in the CNS area the VA CNS-HND makes absolutely no sense from a cost or connections point of view, especially when Australians living in places like BNE-SYD-MEL have many good options and competition with JL NH QF and JQ all offering widebody...

An anonymous blog, no publisher name, and I note on their blog that they say this: But then make these claims: (my highlighting of text that seems more opinion than fact): Pretty much all opinion with a few settled facts. And the last part there is still contestable as well, because from...

Was this subject of the airlines trying to hide their fare classes from the customers and then relying on the fare-classes for calculation of change fares, refunds etc all put into the AFF submission to the Federal Government? Its a longstanding bugbear that all these tricky T&Cs that airlines...

Agree with you that the age of the aircraft itself may or may not reflect the presentation in the cabin, as you say that QR A330 interior was dated but was still in pretty decent condition for its age, I have seen younger aircraft and/or more recently refurbished aircraft with interiors in worse...

I watched the original offending video which was actually a 2-parter CMB-DOH and then the DOH-LHR sector, both Y class reviews. I have not seen any of this YTer's previous videos, but have seen similar ones by Noel Phillips and others. Overall I thought the content of the videos was a bit...

Yeah seems peculiar that VA would want to fly to Japan but not want to do surely would be a once off fairly mundane and normal bureaucratic process to sell tickets ex-Japan. Surely it couldn't be too much of a hurdle? The fact that they haven't done so and the lack of forethought in connection...

Yeah me too, its not the nicest website to log into, and I had to reset my password once the first time, but all my retrospective claims were denied so looks like no point putting any claims in yet. Took them approx 5-7 years to reinstate something that they actually had before - so these...

Not related to Bain but it seems VA are starting to look at their Economy and Business class fare structures, particularly with concern to what corporate customers are looking for, I got this market research link and a screenshot to show their thinking, I guess they are always thinking about...

On the Jetstar A321-200neo the space where 28A and 28F would be, are rear facing crew seats with the seat having a fold up position when unoccupied by crew. These crew seats will stay unoccupied most of the flight except for takeoff and landing. As others have mentioned, seats 28B, 28C and 28D...

They need to redo that survey now, as the time scale on the X-axis does not cover the later developments of the news cycle, and Qantas's place in it, I can think of a couple of other relevant news cycle events that would be worth seeing. Certainly, the Qatar and Federal Government's decision...

Looks like the OP has their heart set on Qantas and their frequent flyer ecosystem, so might be redundant info here, but was going to suggest the same as Mattg to the OP, if they are flying Singapore Airlines and are an Australian resident, and are prepared to credit to Velocity then crediting...

Yep good point, I hadn't realised the Thai Airlines flight into SYD would leave no connection options for the OP to get home to BNE, so that's pretty impractical, options via MEL look better if flying Thai.

As others have said - the best one-stop tradeoff with schedules/duration and price and onboard product options worth considering would be: Singapore Airlines (via SIN) - best schedule, best transfer and almost no backtracking, Star Alliance Qantas (via SYD) - OK schedule but a little bit of a...