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Yep there are certainly some good deals out there and provided you are prepared to rely on WhatsApp/Messenger/Signal/Line for talking to people overseas then its worth considering. All of these prepaid plans are great if you never leave Australia, but they are mostly a fail if attempting to...

So 7 months later and an unsuccesful chargeback and then requiring the intervention of a state consumer regulator and only the threat of referring to the Qantas legal department got the OP a satisfactory result? At least the airline didnt settle on the steps of the court on the morning of a...

Every time someone I know has changed their mobile service provider/ISP/data plan the process of migrating a customer over has been mishandled by one or both carriers, it's just not worth the risk and aggrovation in my opinion, as you only need to have one billing mistake or have a missed...

That article pretty much points out all the details with the extenuating circumstances that this is Spa, resurfaced, and there is no warm-down lap to pick up debris, and the race was clean with no VSC or real safety car so higher fuel consumption so everyone who was short fueled (which is pretty...

Yes exactly - Rex always had a plan to maximize the life of its Saab 340 fleet by buying lots of aircraft/parts and having spare frames to cannibalize for parts, just like any operator of an aircraft that has been out of production for a while. There is nothing new or unique in that situation...

If I had to choose one I would guess that their flagship route might now be possibly BNE-ADL provided its operated by a B738 in 2-class config with IFE /WiFi and divider (proper lounges on both ends, main hub being BNE) and long enough to enjoy a J class meal but not so long that you realize how...

The other issue is really all about a suitable replacement for the Saab 340 aircraft in the long run, a 1 for 1 replacement not even on the design table yet - let alone flying. As others have pointed out the Federal Government has finally come to its senses about regional airport screening so...

Your experience may have been common for other people as well, the funny thing is that the listed ASX company you refer to in your third paragraph was also possibly pissing and moaning about high airfares and unreliable schedules of the 2 major airlines in Australia.... The accountants and...

Yes there would be FIFO & management & mining industry contractors (people).

Yes they have made a mistake, if they reneg on their already offered and ticketed reroute from PER to SYD on VA and then SYD-HND on NH (return) you will have fun putting them through a consumer law misleading and deceptive conduct proceedings, which you will win as a slam dunk. Hang onto your...

Agree with all your good points there, although ANA continued flying between Australia and Japan even throughout Covid, so that seems to me that they have a solid commitment to the market for some reason and/or there must be some money in it, considering they are competing against JL JQ and QF...

Agree - this is a business that potentially had all the right ingredients for success (good staff, aircraft and on-time performance and a good regional network) while both Virgin and Qantas were busy self-sabotaging with lack of capacity, sky-high airfares, extensive delays, lost baggage, "not...

Agree - wrong place due to wrong aircraft, if they were able to fly direct from HND to even BNE SYD or MEL they would have been filling the planes full of Australians who have been flocking to Japan in record numbers, just like JQ QF NH and JL who have all been filling their planes with...

Slot squatting by Bain who thought that they were the cleverest in the room. Not looking so clever now by missing the IPO window with presumably the capacity handed back to Qantstar just in time for the profitable ski season. Facepalm moment for Bain and the management at Virgin who dealt...

Well deserved win for Piastri, and eventually Norris did the right thing, I thought it was ironic that that whole McClaren thing was a strategic call to cover off Lewis Hamilton, which as it turned out, Hamilton may not have been such a threat as McClaren thought (given Hamiltons strategy was...

I agree that SEA seems the most plausible/sensible option being a great AS hub anyway, but its all academic and PR pipe dreams until QFi get some more aircraft, they can't even reliably fly their existing long haul network at the moment, so any more long haul destinations is very fanciful thinking.

All about accessing an East Coast workforce for MinRes and offering them better rosters and conditions as a point of differentiation, although the knee-crunching Qantas Network fleet of FIFO A320's operating out of Perth wouldn't of enamored the FIFO workforce either, plus the dreadful transcon...

I think we might see more of this in the season, as the Red Bull car does not seem to be as dominant this season (or at least at Austria) as the last few, but this was a matter of time before this happened. I recall the first few seasons of Verstappen moving around under braking and not giving...

Glad I saw it and the wet track and changeble conditions made it a race of skill and not so much horsepower or DRS, but unfortunate timing that the safety car gifted the lead to Verstappen from Norris, as the Red Bull looked unconvincing in dirty air, but is unbeatable in clear air. Piastrti...

Probably the effect of fog, a lot of regional airports without ILS so the aircraft departs the larger cities on time, but slows down and waits for fog to burn off at some regional airports. Similar to diversions around thunderstorms in summer.