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Not sure if this article has been posted elsewhere here: AIRLINE BIZ Blog | The Dallas Morning News This was on AirTran out of Atlanta. US Airways was considered the safest American airline from a terrorism perspective due to being boycotted by these folk but I'm not sure if the boycott is...

I thought this article was an interesting read: "Despite offering some of the lowest airline fares, Allegiant is the nation's most profitable carrier and one of the very few that is growing amid a sharp downturn in travel. While the largest U.S. airlines reported losing billions of dollars...

I haven't been flying QF so much in the past year so my status recently dropped to Silver with subsequent loss of automatic Qantas Club membership (the best part of QFF Gold IMO). The latter hasn't bothered me too much as 1) as stated I haven't been flying QF so much and 2) I often arrive just...

I thought I read here somewhere that the Earth Platinum credit card includes rental car insurance excess cover, but I can't find the post and the Earth website doesn't appear to mention this so I guess I was mistaken. I know the AMEX platinum charge card offers this cover but does any other...

I thought this article in The Atlantic was well worth the read. Quote: “Counter*terrorism in the airport is a show designed to make people feel better...." - couldn't be a truer statement IMO. I liked the bit about the "Osama bin Laden, Hero of Islam T-shirt" and the Hezbollah flag. :D Want...

Forgive me if this has been posted elsewhere but Popular Mechanics has what I thought was an interesting article with some statistics from US plane crashes which shows that in a crash with survivors your chances up the back are measurably better. No that this will deter any of you intrepid WP &...

I have often pondered why Qantas have this fixation for serving semi stale bread rolls; genuine 'rock buns' if you like. Not only in the Qantas Club but also on the flights often. OK, perhaps I am being unreasonable but I wonder how hard can it be to serve fresh..... or even to defrost some...

Just one more gripe about Jetstar added to those posted by others here! I have never flown Jetstar but had a one-way flight from BLR to SIN booked on Jetstar Asia for March this year; it was booked nearly a year ago now. I rang Jetstar today to confirm that the flight was still happening as I...

I thought I heard some time back that QF was to introduce one-way O/S flight booking on their website (I took it to mean one way at about half the return price, not 90%). Doesn't seem to have happened.... I need to fly Darwin to Singapore in March but the only option coming up on QF are in...

For those that haven't used it, check out: AAdvantage eShopping(SM) program You can earn AAdvantage points with many US based retailers. If you search through the site there are more retailers listed than is first apparent. I bought a small Apple laptop from J&R through this AA website &...

I have travelled several thousands of miles in rental cars in the US recently and of course there are many differences to car rental in Australia that one needs to be aware of. A few points that spring to mind; sure others can add more: 1) The daily rates quoted (most US bookings are done via...

I have a couple of questions about how flying on AA relates to earning QFF credits when using a QFF number. I am looking at booking a couple of 'restricted first class' one way flights on AA (for travel within the US), the fare comes up as a KUP - would this be seen as first class be QF in...

When I make an AA booking at AA.com is there a website (outside of aa.com) where I can firstly confirm the booking and secondly change the frequent flyer number to my QFF number to avoid having to ring them up? I made a USA domestic booking a couple of days ago and have not receieved any...

Anyone here had their toes nibbled on AA? :p Interesting reading: http://www.ksdk.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=100017

Quote: "Passengers boarding planes in France are now paying a new tax on their tickets to help the world's poor, after the measure came into effect on the weekend. The tax.... adds a surcharge of between one and 40 euros (1.25 and 50 dollars) depending on the destination and class of seat."...

This has been mentioned here before - if I understand it you book and pay for 2 seats but only use 1, however you get the SC's and miles for both. And apparently you dont have to pay the taxes for the 2nd (empty) seat. I would like to do this and have a few questions: Have others here...

News from Qantas today, they are gonna to kill off some regional Qantaslink routes in SA (to Kingscote & to Port Lincoln June 28) and in TAS (to Burnie July 31). Apparently these routes have been less than half full of late, which is understandably a problem. SA is such a backward place, looks...