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    Tesla and QF partnership

    One of those bits is not fact sorry. "90 kilowatt battery". It's a 90 kilowatt hour battery actually.
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    New Zealand car rental = expensive?

    As an example, I just made an exact dummy booking for this October matching an Avis rental of mine from October 2012 for a Prado in Queenstown. Gone from 381 kiwi fruits to 440 fruits for exactly the same booking so a 16% increase over two years is not too bad but not good. Circumstances maybe...
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    Qantas canceling MEL/SYD/BNE - KTA direct flights?

    Good to see the airport upgrade finally going ahead, it is certainly needed as not much has changed over it's life other than a minor expansion in the late 90's. I still remember going to the 'big' opening in the 80's as a kid - got a few hours away from school anyway. International flights...
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    Qantas canceling MEL/SYD/BNE - KTA direct flights?

    Yeah - I'm wondering myself how Roy Hill is going to handle their workers at their new port (and rail yard) in Port Hedland. FIFO or Resi or a combo. I don't think there will be enough permanent employees to support (more) instrastate flights. As for these intrastate flights from KTA - the...
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    Qantaslink seat selection

    Hi, Just to let everyone know, it seems that advanced seat selection is now available on the pure cattle class QFlink 717 flights. I'm booked on PER to PHE in a couple of weeks and the later morning flight is a 717 single class. I understand the two class birds introduced this a few months...
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    Travelling to Auckland Feb 2015

    If you're going to split travel classes, my golden rule is always fly the higher class on the way back. Personally I've done (as many here have done as well) EK, QF and LA across the ditch in J and the EK product is far superior and worth a try just once. The timings coming back to Oz are...
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    Fiji airways and etihad airways sign groundbreaking interline agreement

    Last month for FJ. Fiji Airways A330 damaged in hard landing - 4/1/2014 - Flight Global
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    Fiji airways and etihad airways sign groundbreaking interline agreement

    Technically yes - remember they are very good at slamming their nice new aircraft into the ground at Sydney. :mrgreen:
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    Trying to get a QFF Prem Economy seat to the US Dec - Jan for a decent price

    Very slim pickings at that time of year. Premium economy is looking at $5k return - wow. I'm assuming Sydney to LAX. The high prices will reflect the overall cost of a point plus pay outcome. Over half a million points for each passenger if you want to spend just points. 144k return (each)...
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    Qantas Platinum One experiences?

    Currently sitting in the SYD Flounge and was looking at my PE ticket (QF5 to SIN) and noticed that I had mistakenly selected an aisle seat. Expert flyer was telling me that there maybe a few windows left in PE so I headed to the service desk to see if they could change me around. The nice lady...
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    Perth to Bali on Virgin - Points upgrade?

    Yep you get a meal even with a basic fare. I have had the wifi system on these flights recently, even on planes with the seat back TV. Do remember the foxtel (seat back IFE) was turned off on these jets that had wifi installed. The wifi system is just OK. The app is very slick but the choice is...
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    Qantas Platinum One experiences?

    Have they upgraded from the VIC20 main frame? :mrgreen:
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    Kuwait and other Gulf States to ban gay visitors.

    I believe the news article is BS so it seems. This story was on another Aussie travel website which has been updated (now) to reflect the possible truth behind it. It shows how both poor language translation and poor journalism can blow things out of proportion.
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    Qantas Platinum One experiences?

    Got the same invite myself.
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    VA to fly to SIN [Rumour?]

    +1 Which is under way as we speak. Still some time away though. With Singapore Airlines running four 772 services daily PER-SIN, it seems there must be a market over here. I wonder if VA are going to try and steal some market share from coughstar before their 787s arrive? I get my maiden 777...
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    Points upgrade to NZ: Discount Economy to Business

    When you see the fares in the results table, click on the fares rules at the top of each column to see if they are upgradeable. In my experience the red edeals or not and the sale fares are upgradeable to NZ on Jetconnect.
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    Perth International - incoming pax processing times

    They surely have public telephones in the airport for your husband to use.
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    Qantas Platinum One experiences?

    My P1 acknowledgement came through online after about 3 or 4 days from memory. This was a couple of months ago. I did ring the normal help desk a day or two after the status change just to link a couple flights and was told my status change wasn't showing on their internal system. They put me on...
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    Fix the <redacted> website! Now!

    I feel your pain. I fly once a fortnight with virgin for work which affords me around Gold status. It is painfull enough just to check in. Seeing as I have reached top tier P1 on QF recently, I thought I would put all my personal flying towards VA to reach Platinum. Seriously, the virgin and...
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    RyanAir excess baggage charge takes the cake

    Haha - This is still very common today for Perth bound flights. I was watching a bloke the other week on the same flight to Perth as me, with a standard Krispy box plus a massive punnet (maybe 1-2kgs) of strawberries nicely wrapped in glad wrap. Both items were placed in the overhead bins. All I...
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