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Re: Perth alternates Thanks Aviator. I guess my original surprise was the QF Singapore flight I mentioned earlier didnt carry any fuel for diversion to an alternate, and while the original forecast had no prediction of Fog plenty of other reasons could have caused the airfield to close...

Re: Perth alternates Maybe. However legally they didnt need to hold enough fuel to get to Kalgoorlie , given they declared a Mayday and went under legal minimums to get into Perth I wouldnt think Kalgoorlie was an option! I didnt realise Australian carriers dont need to hold enough fuel to...

Perth alternates JB Catching up on some of the information around the proposed 787 service London>Perth direct. I see there have been some posts on AFF previously about alternates to Perth which I assume will remain for the proposed 787 service(Learmonth, possibly Pearce/Kalgoorlie) I was...

Totally agree! What works elsewhere seems to fail in Perth!!

Re: Qantas website - a bit crook? Some may argue Australia has the distinction, generally, of having the worse websites in the world! (says somebody who has spent the last day trying to catch up on Australian news from the thewest.com.au, theage.com.au and news.com.au!) But the QF is...

First I've heard of this. Has this been documented/announced? Seems quite a limitation that QF has accepted. Alan Joyce mentioned the possibility of Per>DXB>Ber soon after the EK deal was announced so I'm surprised to hear this!

Agree with the potential benefits if the additional flights occur. However that will only happen once the new QF terminal is built on the International side of the airport. QF will not be operating more Perth - Europe flights before the early/mid 2020s. The current issue is around WA gov...

Publicity? Maybe. I think QF would want the flights to work but are realistic they need support. I'm of the view that the benefits to WA do not justify taxpayers support. There was a Deloitte report predicting $140m per year from additional tourism spending from this single daily flight...

I struggle to understand the WA government actively considering subsidising the required modifications to the current QF domestic terminal - QF obviously want to ease transfers. This implies that a large number of passengers, probably most, will be connecting and not O/D traffic. Therefore...

Unlikely, but never rule anything out particularly in momentum driven forex markets. UK has a chronic current account deficit, so to balance out the country spending more on imports than it exports UK historically has had to sell debt and/or assets. The appetite for UK debt and assets will...

Isn't the tasting menu just a collection of other items on the F menu? Pretty sure it is. If they cant offer the tasting menu, they must have run out of all or most of the items on the tasting menu. If they just ran out of one option I cant believe they wouldn't offer the tasting menu and...

GOod points! I dont agree however! But I guess people taking different views is what makes a market! I'm not so sure there is too much skepticism, in this day & age its easy to find lots of people sharing the views you seek(whatever they may be), however risk assets going up(and quite quickly!)...

Fear & Greed Index - Investor Sentiment - CNNMoney Admittedly, just one datapoint. However, various risk assets have risen very significantly last 6+ months, particularly equities. They haven't risen because of underlying fundamentals more because expansion in the PE ratio(underlying earnings...

What was flying the 747SP like compared to the regular classics? Flying ultra long haul back in the 70s(?) and 80s appreciably different than today?

Evidently you either a) haven't been to London recently, or b) if you have visited you spent your time in a small coughpy hotel, in winter, with a coughpy pub next door which happened to be full of ugly women! I've been here since early 2006, and even since then London has improved. A decent cup...

Good on you durbrain for getting an official answer. Some the members regulars need to avoid being so emotional.

Basic usability on the site is poor. Automatically resetting/clearing fields, regular errors when searching for flights, some cities in the From field but not the To field etc - all very poor. Also appears to be way too many unplanned and planned maintenance events. Shouldn't happen for a major...

You lived in London have you? London tap water wont kill you, but it's considered "hard water" which has a distinct taste which some don't like. Additionally a lot of houses/flats in London have plumbing and water tanks which are many decades old and while it might be OK for showering/washing...

Just wondering if others have had the option to make a QF Chauffeur booking removed from MMB? Used to be there for a particular QF9 booking up until a few weeks ago. Anybody else noticed this on their bookings? Long time coming I supposed, shame they decided to do this just before my upcoming...

No issues with jetlag after QF10? Done the flight 3 times now, trying both to sleep and also not to sleep much on the DXB-MEL leg but still suffer from jetlag once in Mel.