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I was on a flight into London Stansted last night and about 8 minutes before landing the captain came on the PA and said something along the lines of "This is your captain, please leave your phones on flight mode, it is interfering with our radios". Then again once we had arrived at the gate he...

Would there be any reason they are doing them in the aircraft as opposed to the sim?

When you say block hours what exactly is that? Is that hours per pilot or hours per plane or something else?

Spectacularly good if you were a shareholder which sold.

I flew through Gatwick aiport in late 2019 after Thomas Cook had collapsed. I don't have any pics but Gatwick's snow ploughs had all been moved to block Thomas Cook's aircraft in. Disregarding the legalities of this, Perth airport aren't alone in doing it although I don't know how British &...

The UK government added the below message to their foreign travel advice website the other day: There’s a heightened risk of terrorism against aviation. Additional security measures are in place for flights departing from Egypt to the UK. You should co-operate fully with security officials at...

I thought that captains/first offices were only trained to sit in the left/right seats and second officers switched between the two? I'm assuming in situations like this its ok for one of the captains to sit in the "wrong" seat during cruise?

Just did Foxtrot Tracker. It took about 9minutes for 150 points. It was about WA tourism.

Google flights is pretty good at things like this. Shows all the destinations on a map and can filter as needed. Majority of destinations from Stansted is Ryanair though. Flights

Seat guru is often out of date, especially for airlines outside the US. I wouldn't worry about it.

Pilots raise safety fears over Botany Bay cruise ship plans Reading this article today about a temporary cruise terminal near Sydney's third runway. What sort of wind conditions would cause troubles for pilots if a cruise ship is docked there?

I understand that the $450 travel credit has to be used on a flight with a qantas flight number. I'm going to be in Asia and Europe most of this year. Does anyone know if it is possible to get a QF flight number flying intra asia or intra europe without having a QF long haul flight on the same...

Would the rostering people change the way they structure the rosters in response to pilot feedback or response to pilots looking to move to Sydney? Or is it more of a case of suck it up and the pilots down the pecking order will get the less desirable base in Melbourne?

Might be worth considering a Family Trust structure for any future investments. The benefits are all assets are held inside the trust with the income then being distributed to either yourself or wife depending on the most tax effective method. Whilst this may not help at the moment with the...

Virgin Australia is one of the main sponsors for the V8 Supercars. As part of that, this aircraft did two low level slow speed passes over pit straight before the race & one low level high speed pass over pitt straight. It was all on the TV coverage & they had the captain of the flight speaking...

Can I please see the loadings for QF81 SYD - SIN on 3/10/16 & QF82 SIN - SYD on 6/10/16. Hoping for an upgrade but not that confident. Thanks in advance.

I think this was a charter for the University of California's College Football team. There playing Hawaii in Sydney on Saturday. VA1 is not operating on Sunday as it is taking the team back to San Francisco.

I'm flying into singapore on jetstar from vietnam and then transfering onto Qantas with a 2 hour connection time. Will jetstar check my bags through onto my qantas flight? If not can i just go to a transfer desk and they'll manually recheck them or do i have to clear customs and then recheck...

I was on the 25 june qf23 flight to bangkok which was delayed. Whilst i didnt have a connecting flight many people did and the csm announced at the start of the flight that qantas would be reviewing all connections that they could see and rebooking where necessary. Towards the end of the flight...

Yuck, Thanks though