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Yeah bad luck indeed! Lesson learned for next time. Due in at SIN just after 2100 so will be a hair over 120 mins late. Thinking I might have a satay for tea, so could be worse 😂

Thanks for the informative post. Wonder if it’s VH-VKA, which has been on the ground in MEL since Sunday morning. Time will tell!

Could be worse - I’m on JQ7 tomorrow connecting to a 6E flight departing 105 minutes later! I’ve already got my speech to JQ’s ground handlers prepared for my arrival.

I’d love to know what happened to that aircraft. If you have a quick skim at VH-VKG over the last few weeks on FR24, it’s been running decently reliably since mid October, and ever since JQ9 was canceled on 9 Dec it’s been running well behind ever since. And this particular JQ7 delay you...

There was an interesting Reuters article recently about United struggling with FOs being unwilling to upgrade to captaincy to the point that they're facing a shortage of captains. I'll link the article below, but it seems to partly be because more and more senior FOs are quite happy with the...

I echo scuubaal above. Had the same issue recently where any attempt to link my lounge pass to my booking was net with a "something went wrong. Please try again later" error, so I could not link my pass to my booking. Walked into the international J lounge in Melbourne and I explained the IT...

My photos of the menu on my trip on QF2 from LHR to SIN in mid May 2023, and QF9 from PER to LHR. I recall having the Vietnamese chicken salad on QF2 and thinking it was really quite good. Pretty sure I had the braised beef on QF9, which was quite nice again, but a small serving. I distinctly...

Not sure if this has been discussed earlier (couldn't find anything using search), but I listened to a really interesting podcast interview the other day with a bloke named Steve Giordano, who spoke about the weird world of professional ferry pilots working for lessors to...

A nice gentleman from the Hobart call centre explained the flight credit system for me the other day. Posting as a reference for you and anyone else If you cancelled your flight, the flight credit is technically seen by QF's system as what is essentially "an open ticket from anywhere to...

How about the old V Australia brand with the southern cross on the tail?

If this change means VA return to something closer to an LCC, I imagine that leaves the full service / corporate market all to QF. I wonder if QF will take the opportunity to step up the 'enhancements'. Maybe make some of these temporary service changes into something, less temporary...

A huge Private Equity fund not being afraid to step on some toes to make as much money as possible? I'm shocked to be sitting here.

I personally think so. Maybe not this quickly, but it would have happened eventually. Outsourcing it represents a cost saving to QF, these providers are specialised, and it saves QF having to procure and maintain their own fleets of ground equipment. As a side note, I wouldn't be surprised if...

I would imagine the gig would go to either Menzies, Swissport or DNATA given they're the largest local operators. Possibly the latter given Qantas sources their catering from DNATA. These providers already service most (if not all) international carriers in Australia, VA, TT, and some JQ, and...

Might be worth posting this article from The Age saying QF are looking at outsourcing their ground handling at 10 airports (all capital cities + Cairns, Alice Springs and Townsville) where it is currently done in-house. This represents 2,400 jobs in addition to the 6,000 redundancies already...

Agree with the other posters. While I don't mind doing work and meetings online rather than traveling (and my employer would be happy for me to stay out of aeroplanes as it saves money in here and now), as soon as my competitors are back in the air and getting face-to-face with clients, I will...

I have a question re: flight credits. Apoligies if it's already been answered- it's easy to miss things in the 34 pages! I canceled a return SYD-LHR booking, Premium Economy going up, Economy on the way back. This was for just myself as my partner couldn't make this trip. The credit can only be...

All international services cancelled from late march, and 2/3 of the group's employees put on leave (annual leave, then unpaid).

A 90% reduction in intl would mean only 6-7 widebody aircraft operating across JQ and QF, down from 60odd? That's basically a complete shutdown.

Thanks for the kind offer serfty. Would love to put my hand up for a single pass. Taking the 10pm from SYD to MEL soon, and would love a quiet lounge to relax in while everything else in the terminal is just about shut. Especially as a NB!