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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...

If your nearest Virgin served airport is 1.5 hours drive away and the nearest Qantaslink airport is 15 minutes away then it sounds like you might be on the edge of metropolitan or maybe in a regional area? If so you are unlikely to get business class service on Qantaslink if its a Dash 8...

First flight in one from BNE-MEL a few days ago in Y around row 17 or so and probably only 70-75% load factor. My impressions were not any quieter than a B717 and marginal improvement on a B738 noise levels, maybe the Y seats a few mm wider (?), legroom ok, grey fabric looks great but might age...

I read that their plan was to have Saab 340 hubs in CBR and DRW, maintain and reactivate some Saabs and an unknown (jet?) larger aircraft to be based in CBR and DRW but cruciallly not do much golden triangle flying in direct competition to QF and VA. The interview was very much about getting out...

Would it be too much to ask if airlines/airports are going to enhance away paper towels on the ground facilities that they actually test and service the hand dryers? i.e. Do they work at all? Are there the same number of air dryers as sinks? Do they need to operate at 120 Decibels? Is the sensor...

I have a heap of domestic flights booked on the 17th and 18th March (all domestic cash fares), none of the DSC have appeared at all yet in my SC earn Activity Statement. Many of them have already been flown in April and May Is the deal still that you have to call QFF and get them credited...

Welcome to the hell that is 2Apply. Speaking from experience.

LOL - footage of Qantas A380s and B789s

Unless the car gets better this year and/or Flavio Briatore leaves - I think Gasly will start exploring his options at the end of the season - in my opinion he is a fairly talented driver and I would like to see him in a better car to see what he could do. He must be getting sick of this as well.

Of course they would have been selling those seats bundle of rights for those regularly scheduled services cancelled yesterday, unless Qantas thought that a spare A380 was going to magically manifest itself into existence out of thin air for that short duration of the charters. (that would have...

A pretty good write up of the state of affairs with PE seating and where it is most common and why. And I think this mostly is all a subject that is most applicable in med to long haul international flights. Matt - I think your point about the increasing F and J fares due to their large...

Regarding the OP's question, I know most people do online check-in now, with most having boarding passes emailed or are using the Qantas App, but in the case where people do online check-in the old-fashioned way and print a static physical paper boarding pass, how can Qantas move people? I...