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BNE, It wouldnt be my first choice to do a long haul and then have 5 hours in an airport with no lounge or shops. What was open and how did you survive?

What could you do for 5 hrs in the airport? Anything open for transit dirty passengers?

Is there any transit traffic through international airports? If there is, are passengers allowed into lounges and how would they be separated? Or are transit passengers kept completely away from all lounges and transtasman pax?

Vaccine rollout is underway in many countries. Australia and NZ have plans to vaccinate a large % of the population by the end of 2021. International travel is just around the corner. The QF F lounges in MEL and SYD must be stocking up on champers. My question is, what will the governments...

There has also been a lack of ability from the district health team. From original case there were many contacts from school and huge numbers of people linked to this have been self isolated and tested. But there have been individuals and families have not self isolated and continued to go to...

Auckland back into level 3 lockdown & test on NZ in level 2. Interesting media presentation, we get the feeling not all information being released just yet. Hopefully 3 days will sort us out again

I have used the SYD and MEL customer service desks countless times. When your flight from SIN has been delayed, you arrive feeling tired and you have missed your connection ( domestic or International) it was never a big problem because we were directed to the service desk who had friendly...

Wow, Events are still changing faster than regulations. If you are an Australian citizen or a permanent resident you cannot leave Australia due to COVID-19 restrictions unless you have an exemption. I just read through these. New Zealand safe travel zone | COVID-19 and the border Exemptions...

I have just looked at the NZ ministry website. it seems a that kiwis returning home and staying for more than 90 days are exempt from quarantine fees, unless they left after Aug 2020. For non New Zealanders there seems to be no charge if NZ was your normal residence and you left NZ before March...

Does anyone have any info of pax numbers? I expect numbers would drop after the initial rush to reunite families, having a few Euro tourists move on to Aus on the world tour and a handful of businesses sending a rep over. Who else is travelling trans Tasman? And is anyone on the Syd-Akl flights?

Since we cant travel, more time to look back at the good old days. I had a birthday in J on EK DXB-SYD. In the middle of the flight the crew came along with a photo card and small cupcakes with imitation candles to say Happy Birthday. And in Delhi, the Oberoi sent up a birthday cake. I am happy...

An update NZ. There is another case of covid in the community and there appears to be lots of confusion, distraction and a bit of "dont care any more" attitude. We have had a weekend of elections and rugby. The weather was fine, everybody is out and about with only a few wearing masks and no...

I hope it all works. Common sense would suggest that there wont be many bags at the moment.

Sorry about the caps, got carried away with cut and paste, then it was too late

I just saw this article saying AA are stopping Oneworld ruby and sapphire privilege of getting free access to Main cabin extra. Sad to see more enhancements to the OneWorld family. https://liveandletsfly.com/american-airlines-removes-main-cabin-extra-benefit-for-oneworld-elites/ On the AA...

NZ news is full of people saying this current bubble is going to help Aus tourism. As desperate as I am to get away from family for a holiday, I am not keen on a long weekend in Sydney followed by a $3000 14 day isolation stay. I have talked to a few people who are thinking of sending a staff...

Will the QF SYD arrivals lounge be ready in time?

We were in Glasgow with young kids years ago. This was when the city was just tidying up and we had had lots of warnings about how dangerous the city could be. When we finally after rental car breakdown, found your apartment that we had booked for the week. 8pm, climbing the stairs with luggage...

sometimes its good to have a losing score. All eyes on tomorrows meeting to decide on lockdown levels. Still Level 3 in Auckland until Wed. Options include dropping to Level 2 with travel restrictions. As to the restrictions, Aucklanders are allowed to freely come back to Auckland. The media...

The best upgrade thread is lots of fun. Travel can be bad and gets TV shows made about he horrible stuff, but it can be wonderful and unexpected. We were at the Dead Sea in Jordan and talked to the life gauds at the beach. I think it would be impossible to sink enough to drown, their main job...