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The Fustercluck that is MEL Airport Arrivals pickup at T1/2/3. No wonder touts have business there. The whole thing needs nuking and start again. OK, maybe I'm spoilt with Changi, but I think if you had to design a pick up area for an airport of MEL's passenger levels, it would be a good...

Yes, apparently, don't get into the car, or particularly don't put luggage into the boot until verifying the PIN with the driver. Scammers get you into the car, and drive off with PIN not valid or the like.

Interesting. Not a requirement for DPS-SIN flights, I’ve done a few over the years, including KLM twice this year and never had secondary screening. Must be a JQ requirement.

Not for the businesses where cash is substantially less than electronic forms of payment. I bet a chunk of that cash never makes it way to the bank.

For a few businesses, cash is substantially less expensive to handle than electronic forms of payment. Not just by a few % points. either . Which is yet another reason to ban surcharging of electronic means of payment.

Commentators always love the more money per seat metric, but it’s not the only metric airlines worry about as costs per seat are higher in business class too. I think it’s more a function of having lighter seats and squeezing more in to get incremental revenue than pushing people into...

You book in the premium economy section of a LCC (ScootPlus) because that might be more comfortable and peaceful. Your partner just went for the regular economy seats a bit further back with just 30pc extra legroom. He gets a quiet cabin with 3 seats to himself. I get the noisiest...

Third. Turkish is based at IST which is on the European side of the Bosphorus.

In many parts of the world on short haul flights, full service carriers double as LCC's at least when travelling in economy. The line is becoming increasingly blurred.

Based on the comments of @jase05 in this thread, it will be a major freight hub, even without passengers. Workers are needed to serve freight operations. There's also the Airport Business Park (linked to the freight facilities?) that the metro line will serve a separate station to the...

It makes sense as in theory there are three options to managing displaced pax - JQ43/42, QF35/36 and QF37/38. It used be very common for JQ pax to be moved onto QF, or even EK back when they operated the route. Anecdotally though now it seems less likely to happen and even like today...

Quite the opposite, I did mention a MCT of 60 hrs! In fact I am travelling on JQ7 on a Sunday with the hope of making "connection" to a separate ticket at Tuesday morning @ 9am . No way would I risk this "connection" from the Monday flight, 15 hrs is simply not long enough for separate...

And also in the catchment for those who will be working at the airport, or businesses nearby to the other stations on the line. It's not just about passengers.

Good luck! 105 minutes in fine - either you will make it easily , or you'll miss it by a long shot! No in between. Although do notethe JQ7 flights that actually leave MEL on time often do a few laps over Batam before landing (as does QF35) due to ATC (congestion/storms etc). But looking...

I've been called away on a work trip so cutting short my usual January in Victoria to just the first week. So I am on JQ7 again in January. (SQ and QF were very high pricing and no award tickets of course). I'm probably playing a dangerous game though, as i've only allowed 39 hrs time...

OK, I may have jumped the gun. But still worth knowing the process which is rather convoluted. I was able to have the vouchers applied to the new booking and the payment is being refunded to my mode of payment. So a few hoops and hurdles but it looks like it will work out as planned.

Yes, I was aware of that happening with legacy carriers. With JQ, as origin and destination changes are allowed free of charge as well, I assumed changes related to the amount paid - which still must be for origin and/or destination changes - but seemingly not to changing date/time.

They can charge a blended surcharge that in theory is not making them a profit. So someone paying by EFTPOS is charged the same amount as (and is subsidising ) someone paying with triple iridium (premium) card. Also lack of enforcement probably means some merchants do charge slightly higher...

I understand Jetstar FlexPlus allows time and date changes (free of charge, subject to fare difference) and change of origination destination. However I did not understand that (supposedly) the underlying fare class is the driver for the fare difference - not the actual fare (rookie error that...

Was your hotel booking just one "room"? (i.e a single room number, regardless of how many rooms within the room number). There policy states "A$200 or local equivalent value per room booked reimbursement (receipts required)^" It penalises those with multiple occupants of a single "room"...