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I watched the original offending video which was actually a 2-parter CMB-DOH and then the DOH-LHR sector, both Y class reviews. I have not seen any of this YTer's previous videos, but have seen similar ones by Noel Phillips and others. Overall I thought the content of the videos was a bit...

Yeah seems peculiar that VA would want to fly to Japan but not want to do surely would be a once off fairly mundane and normal bureaucratic process to sell tickets ex-Japan. Surely it couldn't be too much of a hurdle? The fact that they haven't done so and the lack of forethought in connection...

Yeah me too, its not the nicest website to log into, and I had to reset my password once the first time, but all my retrospective claims were denied so looks like no point putting any claims in yet. Took them approx 5-7 years to reinstate something that they actually had before - so these...

Not related to Bain but it seems VA are starting to look at their Economy and Business class fare structures, particularly with concern to what corporate customers are looking for, I got this market research link and a screenshot to show their thinking, I guess they are always thinking about...

On the Jetstar A321-200neo the space where 28A and 28F would be, are rear facing crew seats with the seat having a fold up position when unoccupied by crew. These crew seats will stay unoccupied most of the flight except for takeoff and landing. As others have mentioned, seats 28B, 28C and 28D...

They need to redo that survey now, as the time scale on the X-axis does not cover the later developments of the news cycle, and Qantas's place in it, I can think of a couple of other relevant news cycle events that would be worth seeing. Certainly, the Qatar and Federal Government's decision...

Looks like the OP has their heart set on Qantas and their frequent flyer ecosystem, so might be redundant info here, but was going to suggest the same as Mattg to the OP, if they are flying Singapore Airlines and are an Australian resident, and are prepared to credit to Velocity then crediting...

Yep good point, I hadn't realised the Thai Airlines flight into SYD would leave no connection options for the OP to get home to BNE, so that's pretty impractical, options via MEL look better if flying Thai.

As others have said - the best one-stop tradeoff with schedules/duration and price and onboard product options worth considering would be: Singapore Airlines (via SIN) - best schedule, best transfer and almost no backtracking, Star Alliance Qantas (via SYD) - OK schedule but a little bit of a...

Will be interesting to see the effects on the other parts of the Qantas International B787-9 schedules, not much slack in the schedule for these already over-committed aircraft.

Will be interesting to see how they go. I think they have missed their brief window myself. All the macro's are going against them now, from interest rates, the cost of money, labour costs and shortages, loss of access to the Alliance fleet, exchange rates falling, discretionary spending and...

Yes - in 2017 banned from overflying from the shining lights and bastions of democracy and human rights that the countries of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Yemen, Libya and Bahrain are famous for.... :rolleyes: Many media outlets have also reported on people within Qatar and...

Yes but normal governments would actually use their Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in dealing with other governments, from some of the reading of the report it looks like DFAT was completely out of the loop in any decision making or even consultation. What you are saying is that...

Well a large document. Timeline of events from page 12 but from pages 24 onwards there is a discussion of the dozen or so reasons given by various Federal ministers as to why the extra capacity was not granted to Qatar, and its interesting that none of these reasons were supplied to Qatar...

Yep with the VA fleet and last minute aircraft substitutions/reliability issues its just not even worth considering inflight wifi as anything other than a "lucky" bonus if it does exist, but pretty much I plan on no inflight wifi as a given and a 50/50 flip of the coin on inflight entertainment...

In that situation would it be worthwhile booking the cheapest reasonably early BFOD flights for the 4 pax and then also booking the most refundable Y or even J cash ticket you could on another carrier as a back-up plan in case the airline is unable to get you to BNE on that day? Might be worth a...

Using more expensive B737 mainline pilots to fly instead of the striking cheaper F100 and A320/319 Network pilot group. Thats a great use of crew, capital and shareholders money.......:rolleyes: The era of slicing and dicing the workforce up into competing subsidiaries in a deflationary low...

Yes I see what you are saying now, but I wonder how many airline customers get fobbed off by chatbots and are never connected to a human being, and just give up their pursuit of whatever solution they wanted to get? e.g. compensation, rebooked flights, refunds etc For the customer this is the...

Revision: Step 1: Move in next to existing airport Step 2: Complain about existence of airport Step 3: Get expensive sound-proofing installed at taxpayers expense Step 4: Profit

Some interesting things to note in this story in that the denial of compensation was through a virtual assistant/chatbot, makes me wonder about the legalities of this if customers receive a "chatbot says no" response as to the implications of chatbot responses being incompatible with consumer...