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    Car Rental Tips

    They do. Especially the older non frequently traveled. My old folks booked a car hire for the exact same place for a week was like $1500. I naturally had a heart attack, canceled it, added a promo code and cut $1000 off.
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    VA “AI Trip Planner”

    Not hooked up to Inventory and Pricing after trying it.
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    Crazy Expensive Xmas Direct fares to Japan

    Not only peak season, but there is a surge in interest for Japan at the moment, not sure how much longer that will go on for but it’s biting pricing in peak. I think half the office has been to Japan in the last year or two. Cycle back last decade it was nobody. If you can get positioned to SIN...
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    Best Hotel you have stayed!!!

    Mt Mulligan Lodge (few hundred km west of Cairns) . Helicopter flew in from Cairns Airport. Got it on a post Covid deal, price is many times that now. Met some new friends there which was a plus. One of those luxury outback resorts you could say. Probably a standout experience in our life to...
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    Virgin Australia Boeing 737 Max 8

    The only real notable differences is bigger (and lower- watch your head) overhead bins, engine noise is different, and that new plane smell. You will only really notice the difference when flying a non BSI/Old Seats 737. That’s when you appreciate the new kit. The old old 737s have those tube...
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    Ask The Pilot

    Do you get notice from your operations or comms teams if you have people with higher profiles on board? Like Premiers, MPs, top celebs etc?
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    Qantas A380 New Route Speculation

    Will be interesting to see reliability even after such maintenance, from little activity for such a duration.
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    Everyday Rewards Targeted Offers

    100 points on $10 spend for each category Pantry, Freezer, Sunscreen More interested in next weeks offer if another lucrative offer appears after this weeks $170/18k offer ends. X4 points on e gift cards also.
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    Car Rental Tips

    I’ve sent you a PM
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    Virgin Australia Boeing 737 Max 8

    I feel like it’s due to the poor range and fleet complexity issues. -9 would only be a domestic fleet, so might as well just wait for the -10. The -10 has been designed for capacity purposes on shorter missions. Its range isn’t great and I would need to check, but I believe it’s worse compared...
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    Qantas boosts international capacity, wet lease Finnair aircraft

    What’s the Cabin Crew training? Computer stuff or do they need to complete a flight under the direction of a trainer?
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    Article: Singapore Airlines A350 Upgrade for Cairns

    Long way off so subject to change. Singapore – Cairns eff 01DEC26 Increase from 4 to 7 weekly, 737 MAX 8 replaces A350-900 SQ203 SIN0840 – 1720CNS 7M8 D SQ204 CNS1820 – 2305SIN 7M8 D
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    Incorrect panicked instructions to passengers

    No doubt the Head of Cabin crew and Chief Pilot will be having words.
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    Jetstar no longer selling Max bundle in Economy

    It’s all about driving higher ancillary revenue at the end of the day. Really crafting the ancillary product for each market specifically. They have called this about in recent results about driving this revenue.
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    Virgin and Qantas to ban power bank use

    I thought some have been in lockers and not in use when caught fire. Access to charging isn’t as challenging as it was 10-20 years ago. Just be done with the things.
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    "The co-pilot slept in"

    Management won’t like that just like they apparently didn’t like that Fiji life jacket PA which was reported the other week by one outlet.
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    “new” QF B737-800s

    I think the point was more about the QF training department not letting pilots fly it unless ticked off for differences training on it. The differences up front on these machines only appear minimal so I’d imagine it’s nothing too in depth. AV was talking about this on another thread around the...
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    Virgin CNS-MEL redeye

    Looks like the crew and aircraft are different for each leg as it seems to fly BNE-CNS-MEL, and the MEL-CNS aircraft becomes the overnighting aircraft which operates the first flight out of Cairns at 6am. Tiger operated a similar flight back in the day when they launched Cairns, was slightly...
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    Virgin Sydney Premium Entry Permanently Closing

    They make these decisions long before any announcement and any customer feedback makes 0% difference in this case.
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    Virgin Sydney Premium Entry Permanently Closing

    Is a full lounge renewal program on the cards anytime soon? I feel like Sydney needs it, bit ratty if you ask me.
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