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To be a little cynical they achieved what they wanted. No need for them any more. ABX-MEL, as pointed out is not a good route for leisure travellers and not good times for business travellers. IIRC Rex used to fly at least daily (if not 2x) during weekdays at more business friendly times...

Whilst I agree that it is questionable whether this route will work, picking up demand from MEL which is constrained may help But frankly, I suggest outside the AFF echo chamber the target market for this is not people who are taking business class CBR-SYD/MEL-SIN-DPS. It’s turning a 6hr...

Aah, GenSan. I've been there at least half a dozen times., for work, but not in the last 10 years. First time I ever stayed in a hotel with security guards at the driveway entrance with visible semi (I assume) automatic weapons. That was in 2004, but the safety did seem to improve over...

It would probably be on brand for Jetstar to have and sell codeshares from CBR-SYD to connect with JQ flights out of SYD , with codeshares operated by Murray’s :-)

Interesting always was a SilkAir route, but then went to Scoot when SilkAir was disbanded.. maybe aircraft availability related at the time but as the SQ narrowbody fleet grows it does give them more options for either moving to SQ or as is most likely dual operations on a route. Not unlike...

Jetstar did, about 12 years ago. Discontinued in Oct 2014. https://australianaviation.com.au/2014/06/jetstar-changes-to-perth-services/

Would LAX indicate an issue at the SFO end that resulted in divert? I wouldn't imagine it would be a planned diversion (whereas HNL could well be) as LAX is ~100 miles further than SFO from ADL.

For some it might be best to have Platinum on Qatar airlines, rather than gold on both QF and VA.

I always scoop it up with a couple of the skewers. It works. And it would feel sort of wrong eating it from a metal spoon.

When it works it works, when it doesn't it doesn't. Not one for the faint hearted, and not advisable to have non-cancellable accommodation on night 1 in SIN. I'm OK with MEL-SIN it as long as I don't need to be back in SG at a specific time. But I have the luxury of not needing to deal...

TBH it varies from time to time which city pairs and which origin ports. But from memory origins like Jakarta, KL etc sometimes have good deals into Europe and perhaps even US (such as New York). It’s a matter of playing around with your preferred flight search engine (eg Google flights...

With the points and co-pay required IMHO if EK F is on your bucket list it can be had for similar return cost (valuing QFF at 1c per point) using cash out of some Asian ports without the availability lottery.

Yeh but they're barely what I'd call "main" choices, they're more hot snacks. Scoot has additional similar hot snacks as well (although not pie/sausage roll, it does have toasted foccacia and even an all day breakfast ex-SIN). Simply has more variety than Jetstar what ever way you look at it.

I don't fly Jetstar much domestically, but occasionally experiment with JQ's 787 service to Singapore. I therefore would mainly compare them to Scoot, which comes with its own sets of pro's and con's, and maybe the comparison is for another thread as they both have their strengths and...

Don’t know what the problem is with SQ J seats. They’re great. Oh wait, maybe that’s because as I have Solitaire PPS privileges I almost always manage to get a bulkhead row. Makes a huge difference. But oddly on the flight I had to LHR last week I was the only person occupying one of...

This one always puzzled me, for packaged processed food like chocolate bars, chips and the like, how would they know it came from the plane and not from the point of origin (and why would it matter )? I get these rules are written with the semi-fresh/ frozen and reheated food served up...

Think of WSI vs SYD the same as ADL vs MEL. No one is moving their entire operations there as it is serving a different market.

In Singapore they have tablets available in the arrivals hall, with staff on hand to assist. (the data synching only takes a couple of minutes, so this seems to work well).

Note that even with separate ticket SQ can throighcheck luggage and issue the BP for the LH sector. Obviously you don’t have protection for the itinerary though.

Yes there are 5 flights from JFK to LHR and 1 from BOS to LHR. Basically an 8am-10am departure arrives at 8pm-10pm., so 12 hrs on the clock face (of course less actual time). Similar to (at least during DST) HKG/CAN/SGN/KUL-SYD/MEL, HND-SYD which are all around that 12 hrs and less than BKK...