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    Virgin Australia to lease more 737s

    Checking regos is the easiest way to tell if a 737-700 has J or not. VBY and VBZ do, the others don't. And there are 5 737-700's without a J cabin (3 in service, one getting painted in TSV and one parked).
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    Pride Flight

    A friend of mine was on this flight in J and had the best time. He said the reception in the LAX F Lounge was amazing and really set the tone for a fun flight.
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    BA club suites for SYD

    Some of their 789's have the new suites.
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    Can't leave Melbourne Airport During transit??? [DOH-MEL-ADL vv]

    RE: Entering Australia at MEL, one should consider the other pax in this situation. If someone no-showed for the MEL-ADL flight QR would spend time paging them, potentially send someone to look for them in the terminal, then have to go through the offload procedure, possibly recalculate the...
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    Virgin Australia Business Class - Meals, Menus & Service

    Given boarding takes a good 15-20 minutes, if a J passenger boards when priority boarding is called there's plenty of time to finish a glass of bubbles. It doesn't need to be spilling over, but more than half-full would be good.
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    Virgin Australia Business Class - Meals, Menus & Service

    I just wish VA would fill the glass when doing PDB. And do a second round.
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    EK to increase BNE frequency from June 2023

    Yes and running it at the time 430/431 goes now.
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    EK to increase BNE frequency from June 2023

    So they're re-numbering the current EK430/431 to EK434/435 and vice-versa and then the new EK430/431 is operating at about the same time as the former EK432/433 (which went via SIN).
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    Virgin International Lounge @ BNE

    You can buy access to the Plaza Premium Lounge, but I'd suggest just going to one of the bars instead.
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    Qatar Gold vs Velocity Platinum. Which to use?

    Last year I flew QR out of BNE and had QR Gold on my BP at check in and then changed to VA to get points/credits before departure. Because of this I was able to go to the QF and NZ lounges, was able to select seats for free and received a welcome on board from one of the cabin managers...
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    Qantas Multi City Problems

    AY and JL flight times on HEL-HND are about the same (13.5 hours) but they each take a different route. JL goes south through eastern Europe then across central Asia and China. AY goes north to take the polar route then down over the Pacific.
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    What is Virgin Australia's strategy (post-administration)?

    Is that considered north Asia? QF haven't returned to HKG yet anyway.
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    What is Virgin Australia's strategy (post-administration)?

    Not disagreeing with you about QF's routes these days, but it's not quite as you mention. - They fly to 5 NA cities not 6 (HNL/YVR/SFO/LAX/DFW (now from MEL and SYD)). - There is only two cities served in north Asia (HND and ICN), which is less than 3 years ago when they flew to...
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    Entry requirements Qatar

    They're still going Transit Tours | Discover Qatar. I was in transit in November and wanted to do the city tour but couldn't get a Hayya card.
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    Entry requirements Qatar

    https://www.smartraveller.gov.au/destinations/middle-east/qatar
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    Virgin Australia Business Class - Meals, Menus & Service

    I've often had the CM show J pax what the meal looks like. Used to be from a printed service document now it's on the iPad. Makes deciding very easy!
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    Qatar in Brisbane

    BNE has always been a QSuite destination. QR have 3 (or could be 4) different 77W configurations, the aircraft used to BNE is the one with two J cabins with QSuite.
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    Tokyo Haneda slot - How will Virgin Operate it? [CNS-HND flights ceased Feb '25]

    You think Australian sparkling wines are like apple juice?
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