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The other interesting thing about the survey was using two examples of a short flight with the first example being for work purposes and the second being leisure (both examples short flights like SYD-BNE or MEL-SYD), a pretty transparent attempt to quiz people about spending their own money vs...

Seems that the ancillary revenue has dropped off a cliff lately and someone in VA has noticed it. Screenshot from a recent survey out today which should be titled "Dude - where has my ancillary revenue gone?" Their preferred seating fees for rows 6-11 are just taking the p*$$ and obviously...

I don't really understand the logic of this, if they rope off the general boarding lane then people start congregating and forming a queue in the priority lane, so then when priority boarding is called they either have to send all the non-priority and non-status people away? And from the tone of...

I recall numerous times pre-Covid where the QF A380 fleet was often plagued with despatch reliability problems because of the fresh water and pump systems on-board, and the notoriously unreliable refrigeration systems on board. Given that they parked them all out in the desert and then had an...

Yeah - as the article says the "unfortunate timings" of the flight are really an aircraft availability issue of Qantas not having enough A330s and the duplication of the SYD-SIN flight times is again, not enough right sized aircraft, and the SYD curfew coming into play. I'm assuming that PR has...

Scrapping of A380s = stupid decision Converting A330s to freight = stupid decision B787 delivery delays = no surprise to anyone by now A350 Ultra long range certification delays - good idea but delay entirely foreseeable/predicatble

For only $130-ish or so more to get from Zipair Y product to its J herringbone layout, seems like a pretty reasonable price, I am hoping that JQ downguaging its CNS-JPN services to A321XLR's would encourage Zipair to fly to either NRT-CNS or NRT-OOL and that would be a game-changer although the...

Utterly predictable outcome of an airline that chose not to have a web site, over-extended itself with too few aircraft and then couldn't operate as per its schedule, unsurprisingly the public were not interested in paying hundreds of dollars for a lottery ticket as to if your booked flight...

I think with Newey's future up in the air (about which team he may go to) we might see a lot of drivers want to leave their options open in order to get into a Newey car. Every single team will want Newey, so it will be quite the process for him to decide where to go. Whoever gets him will be...

I agree with your opinion but the execution was too late to steal recently laid off VA JQ & QF staff, could have secured leased aircraft at lower rates, stuck to one or two bases, a web site from day 1. Good idea ruined by poor execution. Like Tiger, now their reputation is in the toilet they...

I think its relevant here, as QF's only real domestic competitor (VA) has possibly lost some of its ability to enforce priority boarding as well as it used to a few years ago, anecdotally at least. So for people that really care about priority boarding, or people who might see it as a point of...

And how did the infant get through customs and immigration without a valid ticket? Was this in Malaysia or in Australia?

Yeah - Carlos Sainz is a good driver, I think Ferrari will regret letting him go, and its crazy that he is out of contract at the end of this year, I also think that Mercedes or Red Bull would be happy to consider him, not that Perez is doing a particularly bad job but I wouldn't be surprised to...

It certainly looks like VA have got their cancellation rates under control and on first glance the on-departure time performance for everyone seems to be converging around the 75% mark which is still pretty bad overall, but notable that nearly everyone from Virgin, Qantas, Jetstar and Rex seem...

Who is going to address the elephants in the room about what if any cages fit under the Y seat of a VA B737 not much room under there? What happens if people take pets out of cages in flight? What has been the EU/US experience in this case? Who has consulted the airports and the cabin crew & the...

Looks like they did a batch file/credit processing backdated to the 5th Nov 2023 recently from my screenshot, obviously all my pre-Novv 2023 claims were rejected. (The initial 5000 points credited correctly but are hidden away on page 2 and not in this screenshot). Like most here I have only...

If I remember correctly a lot of VA staff took pay cuts to save their jobs in 2020 & 2021 along with a lot of redundancies, so this $25M of "increasing wages" would be somewhere along the path to recovering the wages and conditions that were lost in 2020? Bain needed to do the sale before the...

If the APU issue makes that A332 so useless for even transcon let alone international routes shouldn't it be fixed? Or instead, used on the golden triangle for the next few days until the parts arrive? That way you could use some B738s for transcons, and use the aircraft on a SYD MEL-BNE...

Yeah thats just weird. Imagine having an empty spare B737 sitting around today of all days given the expected traffic around the country and especially into Melbourne, revenue management asleep it seems? Unless Bonza canceled something else instead that that particular aircraft was supposed to fly.

Indeed - no one will ever complain about an F100 once they get a trip in that 150 seat configured A319.