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Recently took the PER-(PHE)-XCH-CCK with VA- obviously no J here but the crew (including the pilots) and ground crew were the worst I have experienced for years. The flight was besieged with issues - 2.5 hours late ( with no announcements until 1/2 an hour after boarding time, pilots turn up...

Best lounge in Australia for me would be Park Hyatt Melbourne (favourite would be Park Hyatt Canberra) For O/S - the Imperial Club Waldorf Cavalieri Lounge in Rome is hard to beat

Love how the hats are collapsible for stowage :cool: And its fuchsia not pink ;)

Some of the fares from PER are amazingly good value for QF and even converted to a standard YASA - PER-ADL-PER is ~37K QFF (excluding points earn! )- whilst a classic award is 36K + $90 and no points..... hmm difficult choice! :o

Thanks Markis10 - good idea :)

Darwin Hilton is now taking bookings - I also have a number of bookings via IHG hopefully they transfer them over

Being in Perth I usually try and visit two office locations over East. The old multi-city was still inferior to QF (only allowed 1 different location) but at least it made the cc fees tolerable. Now it takes too long to book and as such when I have a multi-city booking I don't even look at VA...

I received a PER invite as well - Must be because I'm flying out that morning and will be in Blackwater (Qld) that night....

Had this chicken meal on OOL-MEL recently -however mine was served in such a small bowl that as soon as you even tried to cut the chicken it pushed all the sauce and rice over the plate and onto the tray! So it was almost impossible to eat (without making a huge mess). Chicken could have been...

+ 1 Just bought a case of Taittinger. Very good price at $43 :p

+ 1 - actually enjoyed the place (and there are no bogan Aussies) . Looking forward to going back (and trying Hilton) when I eventually move back to SYD from PER later this year.

:p Excellent news - have to go to Tamworth a fair bit over the next 2 years so good timing. The airport there can easily handle a QC - there is significant state government and defence travel going through here and the flights are usually pretty full too.

Status: Diamond Property: Hilton Sydney Date: 21-1-2013 to 23-1-2013 Rate: $189/$265 night Booked: King Hilton Guestroom (Plus) Received: King Hilton Suite Executive Floor Great stay - well looked after, received all published benefits, and even welcomed back by frontdesk staff even before...

jb01 Indeed it was I :p - AFF members are everywhere Seating was so messed up on that flight and it became a free for all. The positive from the whole experience - I didn't have to eat another horrible flexi meal wrap but got a "gourmet" sandwich instead so made a nice change. --- Ausbt -...

Yet another poor flight today in Y (PER-DRW)- they had the wrong passenger list for business / plat / gold and so gave away all the flexi meals before they realised and I asked for one. They then argued with me that I was not on a flexi fare as I wasn't on the list or did I change seat...

Did PER-DWN today I was seated in row 3. oh and the only person in all of row 3 and 4 and 5. Then all the rest squeezed in thereafter. Quite nice really - that was until a bunch of bogan friends from the back decided those rows might be a nice place to sit....

:p Great news! As a regular regional traveller I dread T2 - looks like VA will lose more flights from me now as I used to use them primarily for their curbside lounge check in (unless of course the alternative is only JQ) ....

An update on this - my company (250 people but we do a lot of domestic travel) sent out advice regarding flight booking to select QF first and only VA if it is significantly cheaper, as it is not worth the time of our consultants or admin staff waiting on the phone and everyone getting confused...

Agree +1 When things go wrong (on average): QF = on the ball - know what to do and how to handle the situtation (maybe it's the experience of things going wrong....) VA = unless you are going MEL-SYD-BNE good luck - and this is from experience with VA as a platinum. When things go wrong...

Everything above - and point 3 is a winner with me - VA (outside the golden triangle) are usually terrible times or with terrible connections and if things go wrong - well travel plans usually go pearshape.... (happened a few time now) QFF Phone service is very good and quick (P1 phone service...