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I'm not a VA fanboy, but Qantas lounges are so bad that I don't see any problem. They are not exactly competing with Qatar...

That's good, but I wish they didn't screw around with interest accounts as they do now.

A lot of routes where I previously received search results for F, don't even have the column at all in the search results. Glad I'm not the only one noticing strange behaviour.

I would recommend Haarlem and Utrecht and then Leiden and Delft. Skip Rotterdam, but that's just my bias. It looks horrible and is essentially where all of Europe's drugs come from, so it's pretty rough.

The funniest thing about this is that Germany is again going to get blame for something done by some Austrian(s). But seriously, imagine if these people were on that JAL A350 at Haneda, man they would be roast chicken.

I have the pro gpt plan as well as gemini, I have to say its very cheap for the value you get - a highly productive personal assistant and researcher.

Geez, are they lowering the fee as well? What is it even for?

If it's a legitimate business, they are positioning themselves horribly with that website design.

Nothing would make me loyal to any airline, always look to what makes the most sense, in any scenario. The way the devaluation of points and the general worsening of benefits of all these programs is going, it may not be worthwhile to even be a high-ranking member much longer.

If anyone follows Bald, he did a video on Tibet recently, which is very interesting, because you are not allowed to be there without a tour guide - but of course he snuck off sometimes. Never seen this part of the world, and unlikely to visit anytime soon, so it's quite fascinating.

Yes, that exactly is my point. I think they didn't like customers like me who spent far more money flying internationally with their partners. I guess if you want to fly a lot overseas, Qantas is going to be the better program. It's ironic, because it's an exact 180 to how the situation was...

A company of the size of Qantas would have far far more IT systems than just "salesforce", I can guarantee you that.

You should declare personal bankruptcy and see how challenging it is just to get a basic credit card 🤣 Before you say it's different for companies, yeh it's worse, the basic business model for VA is not much different to before, but it's arguably a smaller company now. The fact that they've...

Is it a disaster? Maybe they want a smaller pool of top-tier FFers who are contributing more to the company. They don't have the capacity (in terms of flights and lounges) for a FF program as big as Qantas, so it makes sense that they would want to downsize and focus on their top earners. What...

Starlink is much better for planes than the legacy providers other airlines use (and I imagine also more expensive to contract). Every time I've used the internet on QR starlink it's been great, works even from when the plane is on the ground unlike others, and it's very fast and stable, can't...

Given their financial track record? It hasn't worked for them in the past, no reason to think it will magically start working now.

I think VA will have trouble getting much debt from the markets. It'll make a big difference in 10 years time, for the same reason it would with any other airline.

I took VA2 the other week back to Sydney from Europe, pretty decent, just like a Qatar flight, the load was around 50-60% but definitely some people had a row to themselves and made good use out of it! Just depends on how lucky you got. Business seemed pretty full though, I was hoping for a free...

I think VA needs a lot of capital investment to take on what Qantas will be in 10 years time when they finally have some new planes. Surprising that they are not raising any capital, I just don't see a good long-term picture here. They will have some portion of the high-profit domestic market...

Thank God, I guess Vanessa saw the writing on the wall and wanted to get in touch with the times.