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Added to the above of all international and domestic under one roof, sufficient staff and space to handle pax loads, sufficient seating at or near gates and decent transportation links to nearby cities. I would also add an efficient and logical pick-up and drop-off zone, and well-designed roads...

Thats a really good attempt to look into the issue. One thing that would be really interesting would be to compare the status earn and spend of say a domestic economy traveller and run two different case scenarios of a passenger booking flights 4-6 months in advance vs another passenger booking...

Ever since I saw Olly Bearman substituting in 2024 in Saudi Arabia in a Ferrari and Azerbaijan in a Haas, he has looked like something a bit special, this race is confirming why so many people in the F1 paddock were saying good things about him then. Glad I didn't watch the full race, as it...

I don't know if we should be reading the last rites of the Saab 340 quite so soon yet, either, if these selective quotes from the Australian attributed to Air T are in context: Of course, eventually they will be replaced. With the engine renewal plan about the GE CT7-9B turboprop engines...

If this is real and long lasting, you would have to think that this could be an introduction of the Cessna 408P as well as possibly ATR42 into service story given Mountain Air is a Cessna 408 and ATR42 operator. At least they will get their Saab 340 spares back. The Cessna 408P passenger...

Since Binge lost all its HBO content? No reason at all to have Binge except for the Status Credits and I expect subscription numbers at Binge have crashed, that's why they would be running the promotion.

Very much a black box industry - the trouble is that when you really need it, because something has gone seriously wrong, usually the pet is too sick to transfer to another vet, so consumers are completely at the mercy of whether the pet insurance company will deal with the vet involved or not...

I expect that the Lite fares and then people trying to take more aboard, plus the volume issue with 6 or 12 more seats in the B738 fleet and no extra overhead bin space, is starting to show up on Virgin's on-time performance statistics, as well as some workplace sprain and strain injuries from...

This has been discussed everywhere, but in my opinion, its not so much the pro-British driver bias of the Sky coverage that is bad, as the decision making in the visual direction, with the latest race being a good example. Sainz went from the back of the grid to score points, and there was...

This is a massive flex by Qantas Loyalty - as the person in this article points out: Earning Qantas SC switches the Pavlovian response from collecting Qantas Frequent Flyer Points to earning Qantas Status on the ground. As others have said - without much behaviour change, many will earn...

Looks like the work experience kids being let loose inside Velocity again?

I think post administration that metric is definitely skewed because: 1. VA don't have many seats to fill i.e. loss of their entire widebody fleet? 2. Because of the change in the business, they don't fly many kilometers anymore, and a lot of their flying is short haul and a lot of unproductive...

Funny you should mention that - almost the first question in the survey was along the lines of "Are you aware of ClubJetstar?" So shows their line of thinking, my reply to that was "Yes I am aware of Club Jetstar but I don't partake because 1. I can't stand flying JQ and 2. The "benefits" of...

Market research ongoing - looks like the market research people have been instructed to find out where all their once-loyal flyers have gone, some interesting thinking going on there but can't help think this might be a case of the stable door after the horse has bolted.... Lots of...

I guess Alpine is possible but surely Christian Horner would want to be the undisputed No 1 in any team and going from having to deal with Helmut Marko to Flavio Briatore probably won't appeal much to him, although I would take Flavio any day of the week over having to deal with Helmut. I...

If you"re into lazy generalizations then how about any person flying for work or fare paid by any employer regardless of industy be excluded from VA lounges? Sound fair now?

Quick question, is that total domestic travel figure a +18% in the travel budget or a simple number of flights taken by your company? I expect that your Virgin account manager has identified a problem in forward bookings and potential cash flow so will be interesting to see what happens there...

And then it will be a matter of waiting the 5-10 years between an announcement and an actual seat on an aircraft being a reality.....

Congrats on obtaining Plat status with Virgin, sounds like you do a fair bit of flying and a strategic status match to Qantas might be a good idea, assuming your work travel is your choice of airline. I don't think you are alone in that the Velocity changes have prompted many/some people to look...

That is so stupid - family pooling and priority boarding were the two things that Virgin/Velocity had a natural competitive advantage, now with Qantas finally getting their s%^t together and implementing priority boarding, some genius has decided that family pooling and the behaviour of two...