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I don't agree with this, I had a large heavy tool that was rejected by airport security, they didn't say exactly why but I suspected because it could be used for blunt force trauma. I had to go to the landside luggage shop and buy a new suitcase to check it in.

You're going to Indonesia, right? Please confirm your destination so we can help you best. The passport hotline for Australia probably can't tell you for sure whether Indonesia, or whatever specific other country, will accept your passport or not, especially without seeing the damage...

What did you do to sweet talk the lounge attendants? In my experience they strictly follow the rules, i.e. you won't get access unless your ticket if QF-coded. I've had two trips through NAN post-Covid as QF WP.

I've never booked a fully flexible fare, but are you saying the app doesn't allow you to rebook those using a similar interface to the flow forward? As far as flow forward for non-flexible fares, revenue management and operations staff must be continually at odds with each other about this. I...

I didn't say they are dropping their liquids bans, more that they are relaxing the additional inspection at the gate (in airports where there is already a centralised security which bans outside liquids as normal). For example, I recently flew FJ, SYD-NAN-LAX, and there was no gate security...

The funny part is that the US doesn't require this any more for US-bound flights, and neither the UK to my knowledge, and they're the ones that started the whole liquid and gel hysteria back in 2006: 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot - Wikipedia . I don't know if Australian authorities...

It's nothing new, they've been doing this since the A380 introduction. Each new fleet change is an excuse to create more entities, more agreements, and further confuse everyone, all in an effort to lower the average pay.

Here's an article about EML: https://www.edisongroup.com/research/storing-up-value/28051/ If I interpret that correctly, EML has already been the supplier of white-label services to some stored value cards, but partnered with Heritage Bank to issue them in Australia previously, perhaps because...

I'm not across the details of why, but the whole international transfer sector seems to quickly be moving to an array of non-banks, with newish players like Wise, Revolut, etc offering modern products with much lower spreads than the industry had been accustomed to. Whether Qantas takes the...

I spend enough time with my colleagues (whether it's work colleagues or travelling for international aid, which I have done also). Unless I was specifically trying to use this time to get some discussions done, why would I care if I sat next to them? I'm mostly going to be reading, watching...

That's definitely not the case today. Five years is a long time in technology, there have been plenty of upgrades since then for all the major carriers.

When I was *Platinum* I'd estimate my upgrade success rate was about 20-30%, and that's including routes that aren't as premium-heavy, such as PVG-SYD or BNE-NRT (pre-Covid). And I only was on upgradeable fares because that's what was available through the work travel portal. I would never...

Problem is that the A350-1000's for Sunrise have extra belly fuel tanks, and extra armor to protect those tanks in the event of hard landings/crashes, that they would be uneconomic to operate unless you have the supposed high yields that Sunrise flights will generate. My understanding this this...

But aren't poms notoriously tight with their money? Are they really the in market for high-yield premium services, or are they more likely to be on the lowest fares on the ME3? (They'd also more likely to be going to other cities besides London, with good connections to places like Manchester...

I believe this is a legacy of the fact that Japan Airlines Domestic used to be a separate company , itself a legacy of Japan Air System which merged with JAL in the early 2000's. JAL historically used the Axess GDS for domestic bookings, which is a Japan-specific platform owned by JAL, and is...

But doesn't AA actually answer their phone in a reasonable amount of time with reasonably competent agents? Or is this something that even competent agents don't have the authority to resolve (as we've sometimes seen with QF when you do reach a rare competent agent at say, Cape Town, who knows...

Eh, if you check the threads on Qantas IT glitches, I think Hanlon's Razor applies here - Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. Qantas's IT systems are old and creaky (polite terms), and AFF'ers compare the company's expertise level to work experience kids...

Fairly sure Scoot is quite strict about not doing this. You must go through arrival immigration and then depart again if you are arriving from another airline; you can only connect if your arrival was on Scoot or one of their authorised partner airlines. I know this isn't a Singapore...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law

Sometimes they only fly from Sydney to Mebourne once a day at 8pm!