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Wow that’s rotten. Book a year in advance and still get bumped. You mentioned the return was an aircraft substitution. Was this the case for the outbound also?

Paywalled. How long is the delay?

Sure, but an email address in isolation is one thing. Do they have it in a dataset, accurately matched against your Date of Birth, home address, private phone number, and so on. They quite possibly do now, thanks to QF. That's when it gets more "useful" particularly if they use these fields...

Appreciate the insights. There's a first time for every failure mode. I guess I'd add further on the probability side of things, that it would be remarkable for the first occurrence of a double switch failure to occur at the exact moment of seconds after departure. Has there been any inflight...

Gotta say I'm seeing a bit of Main Character Syndrome here :) No one is asking that - it's not all about you. These data breaches can affect different individuals in different ways. From the 6 million, there will be a small subset that have their data enriched against other sources to the...

Has that ever occurred before in the 14 years the 787 has been operating? If not, why now? That would be a good question.

Can you clarify that this is not a joke? Hard to tell in here sometimes, and I can see some members have left “Laugh” reaction emojis.

Like a pissing section in a swimming pool :)

A bizarre suggestion in response to a data breach. Helpful for those in the witness protection program though!

It seems to have turned into "Drip Feed Friday"

It also allows creation of very convincing phishing emails purporting to be from Qantas. The fact that QF includes your FF#, Tier, Points and SC in marketing mails, used to be a nice way to quickly assess if a QF email was legit, since "who else would have that info?". Well now the bad actors...

It could be worse. At least it's not an: "Emerging local Rap group"

Damn they are in full drip-feed mode now. They soften you up with announcements making it sound not so bad. Now a week later we are seeing a bunch of full bingo cards.

Haha. Same sentiment here. I'm not a fan of live music in cases where it's not the whole point of visiting some place/venue etc. If I'm specifically going somewhere to see a show or act, awesome! But if you're going to a restaurant or something, then a bunch of dudes start setting up with...

Precisely. This seems to be the aspect that many have missed. The dataset can be used to perform enrichment against other data. Fairly easy with a readily available tool like Alteryx or similar. From 6 million records, even if the just 1% of these can be enriched against other datasets to the...

Agree there are other ways to validate customers, but they do need to store DOB in their systems. As mentioned it's an ICAO requirement. Furthermore if the airline services the EU, which QF does, they must retain this traveller data for 5 years.

It's an ICAO requirement. (International Civil Aviation Organization)

Let me try to explain why these rules exist under the Corporations Act. They apply to all listed companies and are necessary for the integrity of the financial system. Pretty much everyone's superannuation is dependent on this being heavily regulated. Here's a hypothetical. Imagine the...

No idea. Figured you were looking for suggestions and alternatives. Are there some other options you’ve looked into and dismissed? Via Honkers? Tokyo even with JAL?

Is it an option to use a LCC like Scoot to get to SIN and then pick up the BA flight from there to SYD? I can see BKK-SIN is around $67 on Scoot, which seems pretty reasonable. Have you checked if MH has anything via KL? Try the multi city tool - I can see some options.