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I expect so - it seems a pretty popular destination for all Australians and particularly families across the board at the moment, due to reasonable cost of accommodation, the relatively lower price of airfares, and how expensive it is to holiday within Australia, and popular especially for...

But connections from where is the question isn't it? Passengers can already fly direct to Bali on numerous airlines at far less cost from SYD MEL BNE OOL ADL etc - I can't see how anyone would be interested in transiting CBR unless it was for a VA status run given that domestic airfares into and...

That might be a fairly common or typical user experience for VA from the extracts presented - what works for them, as long as they don't want to fly anywhere regional in Australia or international, then VA is a viable option for those types of passengers. I note that this flyer has QF Gold to...

In my opinion, this is a bit of tennous connection to draw, its far more likely that budget cuts/airline management are not willing to pay for airline reps to engage on this site, or when they do they are only monitoring 'mainstream' social media such as Facebook/Twitter. From the competition...

The other thing I noticed at SYD the other day was that I was in boarding group 2, boarding group 1 was called and then when group 2 was called I saw an interloper who was not in group 2 turned away from boarding by the gate agent. Interlopers still trying it on almost 18 months after they...

A balanced and fair assesment although one thing I would add is that over the years Jetstar have fiddled with their bundles and what is offered in them but they still have cunningly designed their add-on bundles so that you can never quite customize or get what you want, without something else...

I thought of Townsville and or Cairns myself originally, but VA don't seem to have a regular scheduled service departing those airports at 1125am, whereas Mackay airport does have a daily MKY-BNE flight that leaves at 1125am the OP specifically mentions a departure time of 11:25 am. Whetever...

Sounds like Mackay Airport, going by the departure time and the footprint of localised flooding etc. I imagine that its an outsourced Swissport or Dnata agent port, my previous dealings with UM's at these airports have also been characterised by a lot of eye-rolling when checking in UM's and...

Just as a note of thanks Matt - I have always found your in-flight reviews of airline products well written, factual and balanced, and very much better written than the mainstream Australian press travel writers, which are often frivolous, pandering and lacking in any details. That review of...

Too small for what? Using what metrics or peers? If this risible excuse was offered as reported, then its not even a valid point. I would say that for a landmass the size of Australia and its population the nation has an appropriately sized aviation industry at the moment, given a small...

With Federal Parliament sitting in Canberra at the moment, I expect the high prices that you saw with Qantas and Virgin would be explicable by a factor of people spending other people's money to travel between MEL-CBR in these few days, so anyone who would be spending their own money would have...

I would also not be surprised to learn that at SYD the costs of installing the new scanners at the Premium Entry location at T2 was prohibitively expensive and I bet that the owners of Sydney Airport gave no quarter in negotiations about this as the airport would be able to extract higher value...

Well looking at the program, it would not be a stretch to narrow it down to Ivanhoe being interested in the presentations for CPO FBM GED COB and maybe QML. Them not being there for Thursday or Friday is definitely weird though, as you imply - a long way to fly for them just to see 1 day out of...

Inspired by a Moonah industrial park corporate staff cafeteria by the look of it to me. I've seen more individuality and style in a medical waiting room.....

Sorry that post is also a little cryptic, did you mean to suggest they will have to remove 2 rows of Y seating and add one row of J? Or add 2 rows of J class seating? Or remove 2 rows of Y and keep existing J seats the same number and redistribute the extra room gained from losing 2 rows of Y...

There are also significant numbers of people who now reside in the DPS area but work in the NSW coalfields, both Indonesian and Australian citizens, and some more who live in Thailand and work in the Hunter Valley so a SIN connection might be time efficient for them as well? As well as outbound...

So did we get to the bottom of how the physics inside the B738 fleet is going to work? When the refurb happens, will the B738 fleet be losing a row of Y seating, OR gaining another row of J and losing 1 or 2 rows of Y? with the forgone Y seats allowing the extra seat pitch? I'm assuming not an...

Added to the above of all international and domestic under one roof, sufficient staff and space to handle pax loads, sufficient seating at or near gates and decent transportation links to nearby cities. I would also add an efficient and logical pick-up and drop-off zone, and well-designed roads...

Thats a really good attempt to look into the issue. One thing that would be really interesting would be to compare the status earn and spend of say a domestic economy traveller and run two different case scenarios of a passenger booking flights 4-6 months in advance vs another passenger booking...

Ever since I saw Olly Bearman substituting in 2024 in Saudi Arabia in a Ferrari and Azerbaijan in a Haas, he has looked like something a bit special, this race is confirming why so many people in the F1 paddock were saying good things about him then. Glad I didn't watch the full race, as it...