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I don't think the white line means much. FR24 shows the flight avoiding Iranian airspace,

By contrast, last night's BA15 to LHR followed the more southerly path directly over most of Afghanistan.

SQ has been using flight paths to the north of Iran for some time now.

6th option ? (Jetstar, Qantas, Virgin, Garuda, Batik already on the route).

At the time of this post, FR24 showing 15 live EY flights out of AUH to CDG, AMS, LHR, BOM, DEL, BLR, ISB, cough, RUH, DMM, JED, MCT, CAI, SVO, HKG and 1 to AUH (AMS)

Probably the most difficult line to connect to will be the Upfield line (having to either walk 800m from Arden to Nth Melb or change at Footscray and Nth Melb or go into State Library). And the Broady line - probably be quicker still to stick to the 901 bus depending on where along the line...

When I was booking earlier in Feb, I could have sworn many New York hotels I checked before our trip there were still quoting front page pricing without including amenity fees, but are including them now (eg Hyatt, Hilton). Some of them are still not including in front page bold font price...

Most people will have to change trains somewhere, at least once. But that's how transport operates the world over. It's looking like the metro tunnel is the preferred route so people not heading to the centre axis of the CBD or Pakenham line will have to change at one of Sunshine, Footscray...

Although if financially a problem and happy to go beyond central Melbourne (even take Vline to Geelong, Ballarat etc), hotels are considerably cheaper than centre of Melbourne, even if you throw in $11/day for transport.

SQ have jacked up fares a little (ex-SIN anyway). I was looking at for a business trip to northern Africa in last week of March, I initially priced on Friday/Saturday: SQ to LHR increased business class fares $4k vs Saturday morning. (lower fare buckets zeroed out) SQ into FRA / out of ZRH...

Tin pot third world airports where car hire closes for the night before the last flight lands. Was looking at one particular airport, and most car rental agencies close at midnight, I think Hertz seems to stay open until 1am. Yet the airport has 9 domestic flight landing between 23:30 and...

At some point the effect of people avoiding travel altogether will kick in. So seats could well open up as people cancel or defer their plans, regardless of carrier. Probably expect them to disappear again as Friday traffic on EK is rebooked.

Although I’d imagine it would work best if your key demographic was retirees or at least those aged over 45. Anyone who is under 45 would have been under 20 or not even born when the Ansett brand disappeared.

Although could they maybe organise to lease some in the short term from QR if QR weren’t using them ? Basically when people talk about QR, EK or EY flying via a different port it seems that QR has the least hurdles to do so, ( other than slots), using the VA arrangement.

I wasn’t talking about QF though!

Could an Australian carrier running flights through a wet lease arrangements operated by a different carrier, run flights to the UK under Australia/UK air services agreement, routing via SIN? Or would that be considered a foreign carrier operating? Of course would only work If they could...

My experience with F lounges was from 2002 , and the upgrades in 2007 seemed better than previous 5 years.

Zohran Mamdani, the new New York City mayor has taken steps to ban "junk" fees (destination/resort/amenity fees) imposed by NYC hotels. All hotels must now include these in advertised prices...

Maybe they could offer Eurobusiness in the first 2-6 rows 🤣

My first time seeing a Riyadh Air 787 last week. A couple of them lined up at Charleston Airport in South Carolina.